San Francisco

This Friday is a full day of events sponsored by Ning!

Thats right folks several things are lined up that you just don’t want to miss!

8:30 a.m. – Ning Presents… Designing for the Social Web (Breakfast)
Hosted at the Creamery on 4th and Townsend
Meet the peeps who designed social sites for: Linkin Park, Tony Hawk, The Ellen Degeneres Show, 50 Cent, Miley Cyrus, and The Twilight Saga.
Register at: http://www.amiando.com/ningbreakfast
Registration REQUIRED

11:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Ning Presents… Ushering Your Brand into the Social Age.
Our panel social pioneers will lead a discussion around how to build a holistic social experience using all the major social channels in a way that works for your customers.
Registration: http://www.amiando.com/ningsocial
Registration REQUIRED

2:30-3:15 Ning Presents…The Recipe for Success in Social
Join Ning and our panel of distinguished food bloggers and community organizers to learn the secret ingredients for how to turn your passions and interests into a thriving customer community.
Registration: http://www.amiando.com/ningrecipe
Registration REQUIRED

3:30 p.m. – Ning Presents…The Future of the Social Web
Join Ning and our panel of social visionaries to hear their predictions about the next big social trends for 2011. Find out what’s hot, and what’s not for 2011, and learn about the social tools and technologies your company can’t afford to go without.
Registration: http://www.amiando.com/ningfuture
Registration REQUIRED

Closing out the week, join Ning at Bar Adagio (@baradagio) for a cocktail event like none other!
Starting at 5:30 p.m. you can register at http://www.amiando.com/ningparty
Make sure to tip the bartenders and thank @RedVines and @PretzelCrisps for the tasty treats.
Registration REQUIRED

Note: Pre-Registration is required for entry to all events on Friday.

We couldn’t be anymore excited to announce that Social Media Week has 46 events happening throughout Social Media Week San Francisco.

Without the support of the community and thought leaders like yourselves, we wouldnt be able to pull this off.

We are no longer accepting events to be added to the calendar.

Please feel free to check out the schedule and register to attend any events that you see might interest you.

We are pleased to announce Blogtronix to the SMWSF schedule!

Valued Learning

Social software company, Blogtronix, will be holding a five day workshop throughout the schedules of Social Media Week.

These are the topics that will be at each workshop extended across the event:

• Monday – Enterprise Microblogging in Action (register here)
• Tuesday – Top 5 Uses of Enterprise Microbloggin (register here)
• Wednesday – Technical Implementation of Enterprise Microblogging (register here)
• Thursday – Microblogging for Customer and Partner Communities (register here)
• Friday – Trends and Challenges of Enterprise Microbloggin (register here)

Each workshop will begin at 10:00 AM and end at 12:00 PM of each day.

Social Media Week San Francisco wants to extend a warm welcome to Murray Newlands joining our Advisory Board this week!

Murray will be helping organize some of San Francisco’s leading events, and adding in his expertise where needed.

Murray is a renowned author, blogger and social media consultant. He has an encyclopedic knowledge of online marketing. Co-founder of Influence People global social media marketing events company. Founder of the Affiliate Heat Affiliate Network. A Founder of the San Francisco and London Blog Clubs. Judge and presenter at the Bees Awards. Advisory board for MarketMeSuite.

We’re super excited to have Murray on board.

You can follow him on Twitter @MurrayNewlands

Social Media Week has just announce that it has added another location to the program of its upcoming February 2011 global conference: The great city of Hong Kong.

Hong Kong will be the first Asian city to take part in Social Media Week, and is the eighth city to be added to the February 2011 program, joining San Francisco, New York, Toronto, London, Paris, Rome, and São Paulo. City partners for Social Media Week Hong Kong are impactasia, a local PR agency with offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing and Singapore.

Sarah Woodhouse, Group Managing Director of impactasia commented, “Social Media Week provides a global platform to raise the profile of Hong Kong’s exciting social media scene as a crossroads between China and the West. Understanding the differences between social media platforms in the mainland and the rest of the world is key to understanding Hong Kong‘s digital landscape, and this is one element we hope to bring to the forefront at Social Media Week Hong Kong.”

Hong Kong is unique to the overall Social Media Week mission in that it leads the organization’s expansion into Asia as well as putting on display one of the most culturally, socially and politically unique cities in the entire world. Due to time zone effects and the end of Chinese New Year, this event will take place on February 8-12 rather than February 7-11 as in the other Social Media Week cities.

Social Media Week conferences all over the world rely on community support and involvement, and both organizations and individuals who are interested in creating their own event are encouraged to GET INVOLVED by registering on the Social Media Week Hong Kong website or to contact impactasia directly.

An initial event program will be available early December, and registration will open in early January 2011. More information on the Hong Kong event is available on the Social Media Week Hong Kong website, at socialmediaweek.com/hongkong.

About impactasia

Established in Hong Kong in 1990, impactasia has a solid footprint across Asia with offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing and Singapore. A leader of Asia’s independent creative PR agencies, impactasia focuses on digital, consumer and corporate PR and has a number of high profile clients in arts and culture, travel, tourism, luxury goods, FMCG, property and professional services. impactasia also has capabilities in marketing communications and event management. impactasia has been shortlisted as ‘Medium Agency of the Year’ for 2010 by Campaign Asia.

For press and media inquiries regarding Social Media Week Hong Kong, please contact Jocelyn Liipfert at jocelyn@impactasia.com. For global Social Media Week press and media inquiries, please contact Ben Scheim at ben@crowdcentric.net.

Consider this your official call to action to get involved in San Francisco’s Social Media Week!

Social Media Week returns this February 7-11, 2011, and takes place simultaneously in San Francisco, New York, London, São Paulo, Toronto, Rome, and Paris, plus two to three additional cities soon to be named, making Social Media Week February 2011 the biggest and most inclusive iteration yet. In order to make it so, we’re inviting individuals, organizations and brand partners to ‘Get Involved’ in the curation, planning and organization of the multi-city conference.

As an open and collaborative platform, Social Media Week provides many ways to ‘Get Involved’, including curating and hosting events, speaking and presenting, designing workshops, facilitating interviews, sponsoring events, providing editorial coverage and volunteering to participate on the local host committees.

There are opportunities for every organization and individual to get involved this February, on both a global and local level:

• Host an event: You could join the ranks of Sony, New York Times, MTV, Drop.io, JWT, Razorfish, MoMA, Porter Novelli, and others who have all hosted events at their space during previous conferences
• Volunteer: Join the host committee in your city, work at the events, support the communications team, help with outreach. There are many ways to get involved individually
• Provide in-kind products/services to attendees: Much like Foursquare, Livestream, Pegshot, Mobile Roadie, your company could provide services to SMW attendees that enhance and improve their experience
• Sponsor an event: There will be at least 500 events taking place across the all the participating cities. Through these events, your brand can connect and engage an audience of hyper-social influencers
• Speaking Opportunities: Do you have domain specialism? Do you want to share your ideas with a broader audience?

For more information about how to get involved in San Francisco, visit the Get Involved page on the San Francisco site, or to get involved globally, visit the global Social Media Week site.