Bay Area Events

August 12 – 15, 2008

• User Experience Week 2008 – UX Week is the premier user experience conference, and in 2008 they consider what it takes to create great products and services in an uncertain world. With a mix of inspiring talks from recognized thought leaders and hands-on workshops delivering takeaway skills, this event delivers for user experience professionals at all levels — directors, managers, and practitioners.

Aug 12- 14, 2008

• Flash Memory Summit – Flash memory is a key technology enabling new designs for many products in the consumer, computer and enterprise markets. The Flash Memory Summit is the only place where you will hear the people making these products happen!

August 12, 2008

• Google Analytics Live Workshop – This session explores how to effectively gather and evaluate a variety of data, reports, traffic volumes, and other valuable tools that will allow you to  measure and compare results, make the right adjustments, and to accurately assess the effectiveness of your marketing strategies and tactics.
• The Entrepreneurs Roadmap: Key Metrics for Startup Success – As a startup, there’s no shortage of goals and metrics to achieve, but there are countless ways to thwart your own success. To go from startup to stardom, you need to know which factors to focus on first and how to measure the effectiveness of your strategy.
• Flickr for Good at Net Tuesday - Net Tuesdays are free monthly gatherings for social changemakers and web innovators to network, socialize and share ideas about how nonprofits and social benefit organizations can use the social web for social change. Net Tuesdays are an initiative of NetSquared
• Freebase Unofficial Beer Meeting – Freebase is having a user group meetup at House of Shields
  32 New Montgomery St., San Francisco, California 94105 US

August 13, 2008

• Web Analytics – Measuring Engagement In The Social Media Revolution – This event will focus on the measuring user engagement on and off your web site. With the rise of social media, the conversation is taking place on blogs, social networks, forums, online communities, IM and chat clients. Companies need to measure how users are participating in the conversation in all the different places and the impact of that on their businesses. Companies need to be able to capture, mine, aggregate, and analyze data in the attention economy beyond the corporate web site and turn that data into actionable intelligence. By monitoring the net conversations, companies can identify pain points, opinions, and opportunities that would otherwise be missed. Learn from the experts about this cutting-edge topic and how it affects your business and how your business can be part of the conversation.    

August 14, 2008

• Lunch 2.0 ay Myspace – Come enjoy Lunch 2.0 on MySpace at their San Francisco office near South Park, and get to know them!  They’ll provide the food and drink, you provide yourselves – should be a good time!
• SVASE Startup U SFO: Creating a killer PowerPoint for your Investor Pitch – Join panelists Scott Milener, CEO of AdRocket, and Bob Bozeman, Serial Venture Capitalist, to find out how to creat a killer investor pitch for your startup.

August 16, 2008

• WordCamp San Francisco, 2008 – These events are an awesome chance to learn more about WordPress, to meet some of the core developers and other hackers working on the system that powers your website, and even to get involved yourself.