The end of October will find me speaking at two conferences. It’s exciting to have the opportunity to talk about community building, the future of social media & meet new people. There is a coupon for each event if you want to join us!

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At the Social Media Strategies Conference will be on a panel with LaSandra Brill of Cisco & Josh Bancroft of Intel. I look forward to meeting Francois Gossieaux & Ed Moran who were behind the Tribalization Study. It was a comprehensive survey that produced a lot of information outlining the value of communities. And I will get to reconnect with Sean O’Driscoll whom I met last December when I spoke at a conference in Seattle. Sean is well known for his community work at Microsoft with their MVP program.

  • Join us & use the coupon code ‘community56’ for a discount of $150.

And we have set up a twitter account, @socialmediameme that’s offering links to high quality articles.

This will be my first trip to San Francisco so I scheduled some extra time in for getting together with social media friends, meet a start up that I’m advising & sightseeing.

Next on the circuit is the Defrag Conference.

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Defrag 2008 also features an amazing line up of speakers. Check out the speaker page (I love the mouse over feature). On the second day, Charlene Li, co-author of Groundswell, will be doing the keynote. Later that morning I will be on a panel with Kevin Marks, Google & JP Rangaswami, BT. The topic is Making the "Social" Web. (My work tends toward making the web social! )

At this conference I"ll be connecting with Graeme Thickins from Minnesota. His company created an iPhone app & he’s active in the tech scene in the Twin Cities.

The discount coupon code for this conference is "foc1" (friend of connie 1) for a discount of $300.

Then today in my inbox I received an invitation to attend another conference on the day I’m flying to San Francisco. To date I don’t think I’ll be able to attend this one, but I’ll share the information & the coupon code they sent me because it made me smile! It came from Andy Sernovitz & gang. He’s the king of word of mouth!

BlogWell, 10/28/08, San Jose – the discount code is "weloveconnie" for 10% off

8 great case studies in corporate social media – Unprecedented insight on social media and corporate blogging from Cisco, Intel, Wells Fargo, Walmart, UPS, Kaiser Permanente, Graco, and Home Depot. Topics like measuring ROI, managing teams, legal issues, working with agencies and creating great content. From GasPedal and Blog Council.

If you’re at either of the first two events definitely say hi! I’d love to meet you.