March 1, 2010

Social media, tech, marketing events: March

JD LasicaHere’s our roundup of social media, tech and mar­ket­ing con­fer­ences and events sched­uled for the month of March. For the full year, see: Cal­en­dar of 2010 social media, tech and mar­ket­ing con­fer­ences.

Note that we’ve pub­lished a cal­en­dar of 2010 social change con­fer­ences on our sis­ter site, Socialbrite.

We’ll pub­lish a list of note­wor­thy con­fer­ences and events on the first of each month dur­ing the year. Hope to see you at some of these. If you know of other must-attend events, please add them by post­ing in the com­ments at the bot­tom and I’ll add them as I can.

Con­fer­ence Date Place
March
Global Ignite Week March 1–4 World­wide
Ignite, started in 2006, brings together geeks to do 5-minute talks in front of small audi­ences — with slides that rotate every 15 sec­onds. Global Ignite Week fea­tures 500 talks in 40 cities, includ­ing New York, LA, the Bay Area, Boston, Madrid, Manila, Paris and Sydney. micki
SMX West March 2–4 Santa Clara, Calif.
SMX West fea­tures three days of ses­sions, keynotes and access to the lead­ing ven­dors in search mar­ket­ing. Ses­sions will focus on SEO, PPC, social media, local & mobile search and more. Other SMX events: Toronto (April 8–9), Syd­ney (April 22–23), Lon­don (May 17–18), Seat­tle (June 8–9), New York (Oct. 4–6).
The Co-Alignment of the Cor­po­rate and Per­sonal Brand March 4–5 Chicago
You’ll develop your copy of “The Draft,” SOHO’s 16-page social com­mu­ni­ca­tions pol­icy work­book for busi­nesses and cor­po­ra­tions. The focus in 2010 is co-aligning the cor­po­rate brand with inter­nal and exter­nal communications.
Search­Fest March 9 Port­land, Ore.
Search­Fest is ded­i­cated to search mar­ket­ing edu­ca­tion and net­work­ing. Indus­try experts and thought lead­ers from around the coun­try are sched­uled to deliver in-depth pre­sen­ta­tions. This year will be the most com­pre­hen­sive Search­Fest ever with top­ics like Social Media Mar­ket­ing, Advanced Search Engine Opti­miza­tion, Local Search, Ana­lyt­ics, Paid Search Mar­ket­ing and more. SearchFest
We Media Miami March 9–11 Miami
Here you can meet the Game Chang­ers, watch the PitchIt! finals, be a part of a live global broad­cast by The BBC and exchange ideas with a group of inno­va­tors, thinkers, vision­ar­ies, investors and entrepreneurs. wemedia3d
Media Sum­mit March 10–11 New York City
Hun­dreds of the country’s top media, enter­tain­ment and tech­nol­ogy exec­u­tives are expected to attend this gath­er­ing to dis­cuss broad­band, wire­less, adver­tis­ing, TV, film, cable, satel­lite, pub­lish­ing, news and other media.
South by South­west* March 12–21 Austin
This year’s SXSW sched­ule: Inter­ac­tive March 12–16, Film March 12–20, Music March 17–21. Coun­ter­cul­ture meets geek techies, indie film­mak­ers and alt bands. tim street
Social Net­work­ing World Forum — Europe March 15–16 Lon­don
The con­fer­ence bills itself as Europe’s lead­ing social media event. The event fea­tures con­fer­ence streams and work­shops on enter­prise social media, mobile, social TV and more. A date for the World Forum — North Amer­ica in the fall has not been announced
MIX10 March 15–17 Las Vegas
Now in its fifth year, Microsoft’s MIX con­fer­ence is a gath­er­ing of design­ers and devel­op­ers who are build­ing the world’s most inno­v­a­tive websites.
ad:tech March 16–17 Syd­ney
ad:tech is the event for dig­i­tal mar­keters, with lots of hands-on ses­sions with prac­ti­cal tips and case stud­ies. Other ad:tech events are in San Fran­cisco (April 19–21), Sin­ga­pore (June 3–4), Lon­don (Sept. 21–22), Shang­hai (Oct.), Tokyo (Oct. 28–29), Bei­jing (Nov. 17–18) and New York (Nov. 3–5). adtech
OMMA Global March 17–18 San Fran­cisco
This bian­nual con­fer­ence and trade show for the busi­ness of Online Media, Mar­ket­ing and Adver­tis­ing attracts about 4,000 peo­ple. This year’s theme is Cut­ting The Cord: The End Of Online.
DEMO spring March 21–23 Palm Desert, Calif.
More than 20,000 inno­v­a­tive tech­nolo­gies have been reviewed and 1,500 com­pa­nies selected to launch on the DEMO stage over the past 19 years. How­ever, the start-ups pay a steep fee to do so. demo
Opti­miza­tion Summits March 23–24 Dal­las
At the Dal­las 2010 Opti­miza­tion Sum­mits, you’ll expe­ri­ence learn­ing by doing. You’ll build your own two-day cur­ricu­lum on top­ics rang­ing from social media to rev­enue management.
Social Media Strate­gies for Travel March 24–25 San Fran­cisco
Social media is chang­ing the way we com­mu­ni­cate with our cus­tomers. Get the low-down on how travel com­pa­nies are cap­i­tal­iz­ing on social media and take home prac­ti­cal advice on how to drive real return from your social media initiatives.
Social­Tech March 25 San Jose, Calif.
Social­Tech 2010 brings together the vision­ar­ies and experts who are using the power of social media to trans­form the way that B2B tech­nol­ogy com­pa­nies mar­ket their prod­ucts and services.
The Freemium Sum­mit — The Busi­ness of Free March 26 San Fran­cisco
The first Freemium Sum­mit is a one-day event focused on explor­ing what it takes to suc­ceed under the freemium busi­ness model.
Where 2.0 Mar 30-Apr 1 San Jose, Calif.
Sit­u­a­tional aware­ness has become one of the essen­tial ana­lyt­ics for our lives and our busi­ness. Where 2.0 looks at mon­e­ti­za­tion strate­gies, emerg­ing tech­nolo­gies and how new com­pa­nies are jump­ing in to change the rules. where20

JD Lasica works with major com­pa­nies and non­prof­its on social media strate­gies. See his busi­ness pro­file, con­tact JD or leave a comment.

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