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Angel Capital Summit 2008 - Colorado Entrepreneurs Take Recession Head-On

If you live in Colorado and fall into the entrepreneur category, you better head to the Angel Capital Summit being held tomorrow at the Marriott City Center on 1701 California.

This year's Angel Capital Summit will bring specific focus to today's economic climate and how entrepreneurs can be successful during these changing times.

The event will start early with a kick-off keynote from Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper.
During lunch, Anita Burke, one of the top thought-leaders in energy economics and markets, with talk about "evolutionary risk management."

There will also be a Town Hall Meeting, "Disrupting the Recession", with thought-leaders discussing Colorado's entrepreneurial response to the credit crisis, election, energy issues, and sustainability.

The companies that are presenting include:
18 Principles, Inc,  3D at Depth, Affinity Telecom, Inc, Alaskan Hardgear, Allegro Multimedia dba Music Wizard Group, ApopLogic Pharmaceuticals, Inc., AppVenture, Atrato, Inc., Aubice LLC, AWhere Inc., BOCS, Cadeka Microcircuits, Center For Innovation, Metropolitan State College of Denver, Chata Biosystems, Inc., CTM Software Corporation, Del Norte Brewing, DEMAND1, FacetoFace Health, flaik Inc, Fluonic, Inc., Frontline Aerospace, Inc., GroGreen Inc, iVation LLC, JuJu Central, LLC, Lingoport, Inc., Magic Portrait, Munch Away, LLC., NanoPrint Technologies, Progressive Health Center, PROJECT C.U.R.E., Shrewd Foods, Inc., Spatial Networking, Tissue Genetics Inc., Toghers Inc., TruEffect, Inc., Two Moms in the Raw, VanDyne SuperTurbo, Inc, VarVee, LLC, VitruMed Inc., Web2Storage, WhiteDove Herbals, Inc., Xpressplay, LLC, and Zerista.

For more information and the schedule, click here. Follow me on Twitter throughout the day.

ROI of Social Media... the conversation continues

A common question that I hear from clients is how do you measure your social media efforts. As part of this ongoing quest to understand the ways in which we can capture these efforts, I came across a great video from a recent event hosted by HubSpot for the 10th Boston Social Media Breakfast. About 100 people showed up to for a lively discussion. Check it out here.

The Future of Media in the Social Era

Check out this Thin Air Summit Keynote given by Jeremiah Owyang of Forrester. He explores how media is changing due to the social and mobile world

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Online Community and Social Media Events

John Cass has begun a great list of online community and social media conferences. Be sure to send him your event suggestions!

List of Online Community & Social Media related conferences for 2009.

1. Jan Social Media Conference, January 22 - 23, 2009, Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami, FL
2. Health 3.0: The Next Online Generation, January 26 - 28, 2009, Las Vegas, NV.
3. Feb 2009 Customer Reference Forum: 2009 Customer Reference Forum, February 17-19, Berkeley, CA.
4. FOWA Future of Web Apps, Miami, FL, 22-24 Feb 2009, Miami.
5. March O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2009, March 9-12, 2009, San Jose, CA
6. SXSW Interactive: March 13-17, 2009, Austin Texas
7. 2009 Media Summit, Date: March 18-19, 2009, McGraw-Hill Building, 49th St. & 6th Ave., New York City
8. Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco, Co-presented by O'Reilly Media and TechWeb, March 31-April 3, 2009, San Francisco, CA
9. April 6th International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations, ITNG 2009, April 27-29, 2009, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
10. May 3rd Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, May 17 - 20, 2009, San Jose, California
11. Where 2.0 Conference 2009, May 19-21, 2009, San Jose, CA
12. June TTIX Teaching with Technology Idea Exchange, TTIX 2009 will be held June 3-5 2009 on the campus of Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.

Social media cliff notes

There have been a great number of compiled lists of tools that communicators can use to get the word out, better connect with journalists and just plain understand what is available in the world of social media. Without a lot of chit-chat, I have listed a few of those that I found quite useful.

• 10 of the Best Social Media Tools - Sarah Evans

• Use the New Google Web Search RSS Feeds - ReadWriteWeb

• Companies using social media - Peter Kim

• Twitter Tools for Community and Communications Professionals - Brian Solis

Thanks to everyone who has compiled and shared these helpful tools. In the spirit of community, let the sharing continue!