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"It's a brand new week, which means it's time for Mashable\u2019s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable's Events section.\nNot on this list? Contact us and let\u2019s establish a media partnership.\nMashable's Weekly Social Media and Marketing Event Guide is proudly supported by Eventbrite, the Web's Event Marketplace.\n\n\nMay 11, 2009, Los Angeles: Embrace your inner geek and be the geek that keeps on giving! Join The Society for Geek Advancement and Tubefilter for the first ever GeekOut! hosted by Shira Lazar. Sip on Geektinis, rock out to Dublab's live streaming DJ sponsored by Honda and make your best geek pose at the digital photobooth! Tickets are free but we are encouraging guests to donate to Room To Read, a non-profit that is building schools and libraries for children in developing countries around the world, so make sure to include your donation when RSVP'ing!\n\n\nMay 11-14, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario: Attend the Advanced Learning Institute\u2019s \"8th Forum on Social Media for Government: How To Engage Your Employees And Citizens By Using The Latest Web 2.0 Technologies To Drive Communication Results\" to learn how to capture the power of social media in your organization, along with helpful tools, tips and techniques to get started.\nHear from leading experts at Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, National Aboriginal Health Organization, City of Ottawa, ON, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canadian Embassy, Ontario Ministry of Government Services, and more, how to engage your employees and citizens by using social media.  $200 off for Mashable members can be had by mentioning mashable.\n\nMay 11-14, 2009, Washington DC: Attend the \"Advanced Learning Institute\u2019s 25th Forum on Internal Branding: How Branding And Communications Drive Employee Engagement And Improve Your Organization's Bottom Line\" to learn how to create brand champions and advance your organizational goals.\nHear from leading experts NASA, Dean Foods Company, ServiceMaster, Kaiser Permanente, Royal Mail, Federal Aviation Administration, REM Medical Corp., The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc., Watson Wyatt Worldwide, and more, how to integrate social media strategies and technology into your marketing and communications programs to build customer and employee relationships and drive bottom-line results.\nMention \u201CMashable\u201D when registering to save $200.\n\n\nMay 12, 2009, New York City: DPAC III will bring together the leading figures in media, marketing, publishing, and technology to discuss the exploding digital content and advertising industry - exploring the new frontiers of \"digital\" for all content providers, agencies, and marketers. DPAC III will help big and small media and content companies, full-service agencies, and brands get the most out of their digital publishing and advertising strategies. Mashable members can save $100 by using coupon code DPAC3M.\n\nMay 12, 2009, New York City: Social Communications: The Case Studies Conference &amp; Roundtables will showcase the best examples and case studies from leading organizations including The Coca-Cola Company, Tyson Foods, and others. Attendees will also have the opportunity to participate in networking roundtable sessions with the topic of their choice.  Mashable readers can use promo code MASH for a discounted rate of $95.\n\nMay 12, 2009, San Francisco: The Internet Marketing Conference will focus on formative trends in Internet Marketing that will define the display advertising landscape in years to come, covering Social advertising, Behavioral advertising (including a panel on understanding profiles, retargeting and remessaging techniques), and the evolving ecosystem of new technologies entering the ad market.  Speakers include VP Sales, LinkedIn; CEO, AdBrite; SVP, AdReady; CEO, RocketFuel; VP, BlueKai; CTO, TribalFusion and many more: internetmarketingconference.com/sanfrancisco/2009/agenda.html.  Mashable readers can get $100 off by registering with the code IMCR1 here.\n\n\nMay 13, 2009, Rutgers University, NJ: The BEST Institute and Rutgers University School of Business present Rutgers Entrepreneurship Day. The event, featuring Bill Joy founder of Sun Microsystems and partner of Kleiner Perkins, will keynote the day focused on how small businesses, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and PE firms can stimulate the economy.\n\n\nMay 14, 2009, Atlanta, GA: Mashable and Regator are proud to announce the first ever Mashable event in Atlanta: we have a special evening planned so we look forward to meeting the Atlanta social media community. Mashable team members in attendance will include Adam Hirsch (COO), Adam Ostrow (Editor-in-Chief), Sharon Feder (Features Editor) and Brett Petersel (East Coast Events Director). The event will take place at The Trolley Barn and tickets are available at mashablemixeratlanta.eventbrite.com.\n\n\nMay 14, 2009, London: The International Social Media Summit will bring together some of the leading experts and practitioners of social media marketing from across the world. Social Networking, Blogging, Twitter, Social Media Optimisation and Social Media Trends will all be on the agenda as speakers including LinkedIn, Bebo, Plaxo, The Guardian and Trendstream share their knowledge and experience of this hot topic. Use discount code MASH09 for a 20% discount.\n\nMay 14, 2009, San Francisco: These days, social + mobile = a multitude of new opportunities for every party involved, including mobile carriers, manufacturers and social media firms. EconSM will analyze the future of this sector as speakers and participants discuss where the biggest opportunities lie for making money and attracting more users\u2014both domestically and internationally. The conference will also focus on striking a balance between free and paid services along with device-based vs. open apps.  Engage with peers, experts, investors and entrepreneurs at an interactive forum focused on learning from one another, and on growing mobile businesses in this tough economy.  Mashable Readers save 15% with the Discount Code: MASHABLE.\n\nMay 15-17, 2009, New York City: The iPhone Boot Camp offers monthly three day workshops on iPhone Development, a full 24 hours of training, from the basics to professional iPhone applications. It\u2019s part seminar, part training, part hackathon, fueled by vast quantities of pizza, the best New York Deli and Red Bull, all in the quest for the next killer iPhone app. The workshops are limited to fifteen developers and taught by Alex Cone, CEO, Codefab and long time developer. The training is a great way to jump start your iPhone app development and save weeks of effort trying to figure out the iPhone SDK. A 10% discount off the already discounted early-bird rate to Mashable readers is available using discount code mashable.\n\nMay 18, 2009, San Francisco, CA: The SanFran MusicTech Summit is an all day event with a cocktail party thereafter and features the leading Bay Area developers, musicians, entrepreneurs, investors, press, service providers, and organizations in the music/technology space, at the convergence of culture and commerce. There will be panels, conversations, and schmoozing on the evolving music/technology ecosystem, in an elegant and conducive to dealmaking environment. Pete Cashmore calls this event \u201CThe BEST Music and Technology Conference.\u201D Speakers will come from Pandora, YouTube, Rhapsody, The Washington Post, The Future of Music Coalition, SoundExchange, Cisco, and many, many more.  Get 10% off if you use the discount code mashable when you register.\n\nMay 19, 2009, Louisville, KY: People are talking about social media. We're training you HOW to do it at our 1-day long, intensive Inbound Marketing Bootcamp.  Join us for this one-day, keyboard level education seminar in new marketing. Topics include blogging, social networks, social media marketing, and how this all ties to business strategies and goals. This is all action and no fluff.  Learn from Chris Brogan, Justin Levy, and other speakers during this special training.  Use code MASH99 to bring price from $395 down to $99!\n\n\nMay 19-20, 2009, New York City: In turbulent economic times, it is critically important to understand what opportunities exist to make our businesses run better.  The Web 3.0 Conference will explore how companies are using a new generation of tools and technologies today, and should be XW3MASH.\n\nMay 19-21, 2009, San Jose, CA: The earth isn't flat, and maps don't live in the glove compartment anymore. The O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference will pinpoint how far location technology has reached, explore the boundaries of geospace, and point the way into the location frontier. Now in its fifth year, the Where 2.0 Conference is where the grassroots and leading-edge developers building location-aware technology intersect with the businesses and entrepreneurs seeking out location apps, platforms, and hardware to gain a competitive edge. In the O'Reilly conference tradition, Where 2.0 presents leading trends rather than chasing them.  Join us as we delve into the emerging technologies surrounding the geospatial industry. Register by March 31 and save up to $300 - https://en.oreilly.com/where2009/public/register. Mashable readers save an additional 15% using code whr09msh.\n\nMay 20, 2009, London, UK: Media140 will host London's first Twitter benefit event which will bring together top journalists, bloggers and publishers to share and discuss the effects and impact of Twitter, real-time news and other social media tools.\nAnde Gregson, the founder of Media140, has assembled a mixture of informative case studies and quickfire panel discussions from an eclectic mix of journalists, bloggers, commentators and technologists from The Times, Guardian, Reuters, BBC, Sky News, Journalism.co.uk and Frontline Club, plus many more. Tickets for the event are \u00A335 ($52) and proceeds benefit Mencap, a non-profit that supports people with learning disabilities and their families. A 10% discount on tickets for Mashable readers, please enter \u2018Mashable140\u2019 at checkout.\n\n\nMay 20-22, Portland, Oregon: WebVisions is a three day conference that explores the future of web design, technology, user experience and business strategy with an all-star lineup of over 50 visionary speakers, including Mark Frauenfelder of BoingBoing.net, Jared Spool, Brad Smith and Ryan Sims of VIRB.com, Molly Holzschlag, Indi Young, Chris Pirillo, Armin Vit of UnderConsideration, Kimberly Elam of Ringling College of Art and Design and more. The conference also features half day workshops that take an in depth look at a variety of topics. Register with the Mashable code (MASHWV09) to receive the special rate of only $225 for a conference pass.\n\nMay 21, 2009, Los Angeles, CA: Put your social media plan in motion.  This session, hosted by Sally Falkow with guest Rebecca Lieb, focuses on choosing your social media campaign tactics including how to develop your content strategy, leverage universal search, and how to choose the best tools from blogging, to video, images, RSS feeds and social networks. An in-depth white paper accompanies this webinar. Other sessions include guest speakers John Blossom, Paul Gillin and Katie Delahaye Paine. Session costs are $125 each or $425 for all four sessions, but with code mw10, you can get a 10% discount. Archived versions are available. Visit us at Social Media Roadmap.\n\n\nMay 27-June 3, 2009, England: The Carsonified team is taking the 'Future of Web Apps' (FOWA) on tour and we'll be visiting Edinburgh (5/27), Leeds (5/28), Cambridge (6/2) and Bristol (6/3). It's a brand new half day conference, with a morning of free cloud computing workshops and an afternoon of talks from some of the industry's most well respected professionals. We'll be focusing on good solid technical content... talks that will give you some good take away points and an insight into various aspects of the industry. There will also be a chance for some speed networking - the perfect opportunity to connect with local businesses and professionals.  Oh, and of course there will be drinks at the end of the day! Thirty early bird passes  are available at \u00A339, and when these run out, prices will be rising to \u00A359.\n\n\nMay 28, 2009, online: Thought leaders will present interactive webcasts throughout the day to discuss the best ways to use customer insights to build loyalty and influence purchasing behavior to improve your business. Strong brands are built upon customer loyalty, and never is customer retention more relevant than in a time of economic uncertainty. Topics and speakers include: \u2018Layers of Loyalty:\u2122 12 Strategies to Retain More Customers\u2019 - Ed King, Founder, Staying in Droves\u2122 Consulting; \u2018Customer Retention Strategies\u2019 - Lynn Hunsaker, Consultant, ClearAction LLC and many more! Mashable readers can view the program and sign up for free at: brighttalk.com/summit/customerretention\n\n\nMay 28-29, 2009, Santa Clara, CA: Virtual Edge 2009 the Summit on Virtual Events, Meetings &amp; Communities will feature speakers from marketing departments in such companies as SAP, Cisco, Ziff Davis, IBM, Linden Labs, UBM and many more. The focus is on helping you find and apply effective virtual event and meeting strategies that you can use to produce the results you need without the expense of travel. Use the discount code mashable and receive a 20% discount on your registration fee.\n\nMay 28-30, 2009, Boston MA: Join Infrared5 and Influxis at Flash on Tap where the top Flash designers and developers will be for the first-ever web design, technology and beer tasting all in one!\nCombining a Flash design and developer conference with beer tasting, Flash on Tap features top designer and developer speakers\u2014like Waltz with Bashir animator Yoni Goodman, GMUNK, and Keith Peters\u2014the conference features afternoon break-out sessions with repeating small talks providing information and inspiration on skill-building, technique, professional growth, and creativity. Enter code: MASHBEER for a $50 Mashable Discount. Cheers!\nCode. Create. Raise the bar.\n\n/\nMay 29-31, 2009, London: The iPhone Boot Camp offers monthly three day intensive workshops on iPhone Development, a full 24 hours of training, from the basics to professional iPhone applications. It\u2019s part seminar, part training, part hack-a-thon, fueled by vast quantities of pizza, fish and chips and Red Bull, all in the quest for the next killer iPhone app. The workshops are limited to fifteen developers and taught by Alex Cone, CEO, Codefab and long time developer. The training is a great way to jump start your iPhone app development and save weeks of effort trying to figure out the iPhone SDK. A 10% discount off the already discounted early-bird rate to Mashable readers is available using discount code mashable.\n\n\nMay 30, 2009, Dallas, TX: The Big Design Conference is an intense day of learning within the scope of Strategy, Social Media, User Experience, and Code Development. Experts from across the country will gather to present theories, research, experiences, and best practices to students, professionals, and executives looking to stay on the bleeding edge. Speakers include Lane Becker (Adaptive Path/Get Satisfaction), Bill Scott (Netflix/author of Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions), Scott Porad (I Can Has Cheezburger), and many more. The Big Design Conference is a joint venture of the Dallas/Fort Worth Usability Professionals\u2019 Association, Refresh Dallas, and the Dallas/Fort Worth Interaction Design Association. Mashable readers receive 20% off conference registration by using the code MASHABLE during the checkout process.\n\n\nMay 31, 2009, San Francisco: TWTRCON SF 09 is the first event about how companies are using Twitter to reach and engage customers, influence opinions and activate markets.  You\u2019ll see case studies of Twitter\u2019s use by leading brands such as Intuit, Virgin America, and Boingo Wireless, and network and share ideas with leading business, marketing, media and PR executives, key Twitter developers and social media experts.  Featured conference speakers include Guy Kawasaki, MC Hammer, Dave McClure, Steve Rubel, Paul Saffo, Shel Israel, and many more.  Mashable readers can get 20% off with code DVYN02.\n\nJune 1-2, 2009, San Francisco: Connect with the smartest minds in youth marketing at the 2009 national Ypulse Youth Marketing Mashup, where top brand, corporate and social marketers, media profs, educators and non-profit organizations will gather to share best practices, research and latest strategies on marketing to youth with technology. NEW pre-conference events offer a deep dive focus into the tween, college or multicultural market, or choose a youth marketing boot camp. Featured participants include Spotlight Keynoter Don Tapscott, plus Josh Shipp, Donna Fenn, Guy Kawasaki, and top marketers from Disney, MTV, Alloy and more. Mashable readers may register using code MASHABLE for a savings of 10%!\n\nJune 1-2, 2009, New York City: Two years ago, John Battelle and Federated Media hosted the first Conversational Marketing Summit. The event made the case for a new kind of engagement with audiences. Now we have real cases to study. Join us for a chance to look back at what the creative pioneers have learned and turn that experience into great ideas for the next stage of Conversational Marketing. Mashable readers get a $200 discount with code CMSMASH. Join us!\n\nJune 1-2, 2009, Airport City, Israel: Nowadays, affiliates constantly look into new market niches. The days affiliates were focusing on a single market niche are over. Affilicon covers the entire market and not any specific niche. The conferences are targeting new affiliates, experienced affiliates, and super affiliates as well as the respective affiliates programs (vendors). Affiliates who look into what is the latest and greatest in the market, new market niches and vendors who look into extending their affiliation network will find Affilicon events as the place to be. With extensive educational program (3 tracks in some locations), large exhibition attended by global vendors, lot of fun and sightseeing, Affilicon delivers a clear return on investment.  Mashable readers get 10% off with code AU555MASH.\n\nJune 2-3, 2009, New York City: Mediabistro Circus will explore the convergence of digital and traditional media, why it matters, and how it affects the work you do. Two days of inspired programming will bring together hundreds of top-level professionals from across various media disciplines.  Mashable readers save $100 with discount code: XMBCMASH. Register by April 22 for best rates!\n\n\nJune 3, 2009, New York City: The third Mashable NextUp NYC will focus on what is new, what\u2019s hot and the how to of Social Media Marketing, and will also be held at the 92YTribeca. Every successful site, whether you are a small business or a major corporation should have a social media component by now\u2026 If you don\u2019t, you are far behind, if you do, are you using it properly? The night will comprise of networking, presentations and keynotes on the topic by Steve Rubel and Mashable\u2019s Founder and CEO, Pete Cashmore.\n\n\nJune 3, 2009, New York City: Silicon Alley Insider's Startup 2009 will showcase 10 top startups competing for bragging rights, buzz, and a $50,000 prize.  It will be the first annual forum for outstanding entrepreneurs and early-stage companies to meet VCs, investors, journalists, and other members of the East Coast startup community. Save $50 by registering with this link.\n\n\nJune 3-4, 2009, London: This highly interactive conference brings together marketing experts working in the environment of Web 2.0 who have understood how to use the power of communities to impart their message and increase sales, while in many instances reducing customer service costs. It presents new and subtle marketing techniques, which establish a whole new supplier/client dynamic. It is particularly relevant in today's atmosphere of \"doing more with less\" and can be applied to every type of sector and industry. Mashable readers can save 20% with code Mashable.\n\nJune 3-4, 2009, London, UK: The leading mobile web conference is back. It\u2019s bigger, but most importantly, it\u2019s better. Taking place at the Jumeirah Carlton Tower Hotel in London, the 2nd annual Mobile Web 2.0 Summit truly attracts the entire mobile ecosystem \u2013 Developers, Operators, Publishers, Advertisers, Original Equipment Manufacturers \u2013 all the stakeholders will be there, and in numbers. The unbeatable speaker line-up for this year\u2019s event features cutting-edge viewpoints from over 60 industry leaders including Vodafone, Google, O2, Nokia, GetJar, Bebo, Mobile Interactive Group, ITV, Orange, Flirtomatic, Microsoft, Sony Ericsson, Alcatel-Lucent, Opera, Taptu, AdMob, 3UK, and many more. Visit mobilewebsummit.com for details and use code raspberry for a 10% discount.\n\nJune 8-10, 2009, Orlando, FL: The Gartner Portals, Content &amp; Collaboration Summit is the productivity-minded event focused on finding better ways to deliver resources, streamline content delivery and storage, and bring people together for greater efficiency. Go to gartner.com/us/pccspring or call 1 866 405 2511 and reference priority code PCCMASH.\n\nJune 8, 2009, London:  At Corporate Social Networking Forum, learn from global brands who have successfully implemented a social networking framework and what impact this has had on day-to-day business. Understand what products and tools are available to incorporate web 2.0 functionality to your business.  Listen to analysts, top commentators and experts on how social media can improve employee satisfaction and output.  Learn how Enterprise 2.0 can improve efficiency within your business network.  Take a tour of the latest corporate social networking software tools and resources. Take advantage of the Evening Networking Reception and Network immediately with our first-class pre-show online meeting planner. Mention you are a Mashable reader to receive 15% discount.\n\n\nJune 9, 2009, New York City: Find out how talent management and learning &amp; development gurus leverage social media to engage employees, enhance leadership development, improve recruiting and onboarding, and increase productivity at IQPC\u2019s Social Media for Talent Management. This one-day forum will take an in-depth end-to-end look at social media, from getting started, to winning buy-in, to maintaining effective social networks. Forget about trial and error, Social Media for Talent Management will give you the tools you need to launch your social media strategy the right way and reap the benefits from the beginning.\nExclusive Discount! Mashable readers will receive a special 20% discount off the standard conference price when they mention IUS_MASH_SM.\n\nJune 10, 2009, Mountain View, CA: The Online Community Unconference is a gathering of online community practitioners - managers, developers, business people, tool providers, investors - to discuss experience and strategies in the development and growth of online communities. Those involved in online community development (and social software in general) share many common challenges: community management, tools, marketing, business models, legal issues. As we have found with our past events, the best source of information on all of these challenges is other knowledgeable practitioners. Register with code mashable to get $20 off.\n\nJune 13, 2009, New York City: Blogs With Balls is a social and new media gathering focused on the changing face of sports and the people making it happen \u2014 sports fans, writers, sites, teams, athletes and the companies who sponsor them \u2014 and their ability to maximize new media outlets for promotion and advancement.  Blogs with Balls 1.0 is set to take place with speakers from such notable blogs as Deadspin, Kissing Suzy Kolber, and With Leather, as well as mainstream media outlets like Sports Illustrated and Yahoo! Sports.  Discounted early bird tickets are now available and going fast. Mashable readers get 10% off with code mashballs.\n\nJune 14-18, San Jose, CA: Semantic Web, Web 3.0, Linked Open Data \u2013 whatever you call it, this is THE place to discuss the business of Semantic Technologies.  Now in its fifth year, the annual SemTech Conference represents virtually the entire spectrum of business, government, and consumer activity taking place within the emerging field of semantic technologies. It is the most extensive event ever assembled on the topic. Use registration code STA97 to get $100 off.\n\nJune 15-16, 2009, Phoenix, AZ: The Healthcare New Media Marketing Conference has been designed for healthcare professionals interested in learning the latest in New Media and web 2.0 techniques. Over the course of this exciting two-day conference program, participants will have the opportunity to learn from industry thought leaders, cutting-edge case studies, accurate methods for measuring results and a high-level of real-time information related to new media opportunities in healthcare systems. Mention discount code: MASHABLE and receive $50 off the registration fee.\n\nJune 16-17, 2009, Chicago, IL: Join us when EXECUTING SOCIAL MEDIA meets INNOVATING EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT. Communitelligence presents two stimulating days of learning and sharing on the most essential aspects of employee engagement, HR and social media for internal communications. Topics range from \u201Cinternal Facebooks and Youtubes,\u201D to employee blogging, internal wikis, podcasts, mobile intranets and micro-sharing. Executing Social Media for Internal Communications takes  to the next level. One trip, two great conferences, tons of ideas to take back to your office. Register today \u2013 use code tweet1 to receive $100 off registration.\n\nJune 19-21, Glasgow, Scotland: At Social Innovation Camp, we\u2019ll be attempting our usual trick and bringing together some of the best of the UK\u2019s software developers and designers, together with those at the sharp end of social change. They\u2019ll have just 48 hours to build some web-based solutions to a set of social problems - from back-of-the-envelope idea to working prototype, complete with software. Think you have an idea on how to change something important? Or want to come and participate? The event is free!\n\n\nJune 20-22, 2009, San Jose, CA: O'Reilly Velocity 2009, the Web Operations and Performance Conference dedicated to helping people build a better Internet, is the essential conference for web developers who build Internet infrastructure, enterprise websites, or need to bootstrap a startup to scale for a global audience. Last year more than 600 of the web's leading developers attended Velocity to learn \u2014 straight from the experts \u2014 how to build large scale websites that were fast, scalable, efficient, and always available. Register Now &amp; save an additional 15% using discount code vel09msh at https://en.oreilly.com/velocity2009/public/register\n\n\nJuly 24-26, 2009, Napa and Sonoma, CA: Did you know blogging is changing the wine industry as we know it?  Love wine?  Love blogging?  Join as fellow wine bloggers, new media innovators in the wine industry, and wine industry leaders converge on California wine country on July 24-26 for the premier conference for new media and the wine industry.  This three day symposium brings you a unique opportunity to learn about and discuss the intersection of wine with the world of new media including blogging, social media, and more. We hope to see you there - it's going to be a fantastic wine country experience! Get a discount by entering MASH when you register!\n\n\nAugust 3-6, 2009, Chicago, IL: Attend the Advanced Learning Institute\u2019s 26th forum on Internal Branding: How To Use Strategic Communications To Drive Employee Engagement, Build Your Brand, &amp; Impact Your Organization's Bottom Line, to learn how to create brand champions and advance your organizational goals.  Hear how to build bigger and better brands and drive bottom-line results through practical solutions from top branding experts at: Hyatt Corporation; AAA Northern CA, NV &amp; UT; American Express Canada; Benetton USA; Pitney Bowes; Group Health Cooperative; DLA Piper; Illinois Tool Works (ITW) \u2013 Redhead; U.S. Department of the Interior; Booz Allen Hamilton, and many others.  Mention mashable for a $200 discount.\n\nSeptember 22-23, 2009, Singapore: The Social Networking World Forum Asia is a two day conference dedicated to social networking and social media, featuring key speakers from social networking publishers, advertising agencies, industry analysts, software developers and equipment manufacturers, pay-TV and network service providers, mobile operators, plus many more. There will be a joint exhibition combining social networking and mobile social networking formats and an evening networking reception. Mention you are a Mashable reader to receive 15% discount.\n\n\nOctober 9-11, 2009, Atlanta, GA: In its inaugural year, BLOGALICIOUS 2009 will provide women bloggers of color an amazing opportunity to come together to celebrate their diversity and their love for blogging.   If you\u2019re interested in meeting, learning about, and interacting with women bloggers of color, this conference is for you.  In addition to igniting a sense of unity within our community, BLOGALICIOUS 2009 will educate marketers on the importance of our demographic in today\u2019s marketplace, all while allowing bloggers to network and achieve the ultimate success for their blogs. It\u2019s an event not to be missed! \n\nThe Mashable Weekly Social Media and Marketing Event Guide is proudly supported by Eventbrite, the Web's Event Marketplace.Eventbrite is an online events marketplace where tens of thousands of individuals, businesses and organizations of all sizes manage, promote and sell tickets to their events.  Make your event a success on Eventbrite."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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