Events

The 15th Annual Webby Awards are here at last and if you aren’t attending in person you can get your fill of five-word speeches and web celebs live on YouTube, Facebook, or your iPhone or iPad. Find out more after the jump.

Join Baratunde Thurston (left), The Onion’s Director of Digital and author of How to Be Black, for an entertaining look at creative social media campaigns in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting February 16. Other speakers include Morin Oluwole (Facebook), Tim Devane (bitly), and SocialTimes' writer Devon Glenn.   Register now.

If you’ve been tuning in to Social Times regularly you’ve probably noticed that we’ve started upping the number of our educational course materials with the help of the fine folks at mediabistro.com (our parent site).  Well, the next round of the Social Media Marketing Boot Camp is here, featuring guests such as Robert Scoble and [...]

In Mediabistro’s Writing and Editing for the Web class, starting April 20 in New York, instructor Betsy Fast, editor-in-chief of DoSomething.org and former senior editor at Instyle.com, will show you how to write, edit, and publish online content.

Learn how to launch your own startup in Mediabistro’s Entrepreneurial Journalism Boot Camp, taking place online from July 12 through August 30. Innovative journalists who have started their own companies will show participants what to consider when launching their startup.

This May, hundreds of social media enthusiasts will come together in San Francisco for the first Social Media Optimization Conference (SMOC), produced by SocialTimes and Mediabistro.

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The global social media holiday was first recognized on April 16, 2010. Nate Bonilla-Warford, an optometrist from Tampa, Florida thought of the idea after thinking about a simple calculation with “Foursquare”. Bonilla-Warford thought up the idea to “check-in” to Foursquare on the 4th month and 16th day of the year. After contacting the Foursquare headquarters in New York City about the idea, the company officially declared April 16 “Foursquare Day.”

Tennis, everyone? The Family Circle Cup tournament added a fully functional mobile site to its social media arsenal, joining its already existing presence on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr.

Planning to join us in New York from March 31 to April 1 to learn how to monetize social media? Make sure to register by Wednesday, March 16 for early bird discounts.

According to its co-founder Andrei Vestemeanu, at the end of each event attendees are sure to talking among themselves about the speaker, but now they can do even more. The can rate the speaker at ratemyspeaker.com. They are able to let the speakers and the masses know what they really think of the speaker’s overall presentation.

You want to attend the SXSW interactive parties because they are the perfect place to grab a cold drink, eat some great food, network, see old friends and listen to some great music. Parties are hosted by some of the leading heavyweights in the tech industry, so you’re sure to make new friends and solid connections while enjoying endless free food and drink. Because there are so many parties, I have picked the top five must attend parties.