Making Better Use Of The Social Web

Did you know:

The number of years it took to reach a market audience of 50 Million?

Radio: 38

Television: 13

Internet: 4

If you want to know more, watch this video

Allen Stern puts together a roundup of Web/tech events for New York every week, and his list inspired me to do the same for Silicon Valley events, given I keep a list of potential events to cover for ReadWriteWeb.

So, here are events planned for the Silicon Valley area; let me know if there are any that I’ve missed, and I’ll do my best to include them.

Monday 27th October

Design Thinking Morning Forum
Host: SVAMA
Time: 8.30 - 10 a.m.
Place: Palo Alto
Cost: $5 Members/$15 Non Members

Annual Future of Virtual Worlds
Host: SD Forum
Time: 6.30 - 9.30 p.m.
Place: Palo Alto
Cost: Free Members/$15 Non Members

International Congress of Nano-Bio Clean Tech 2008
Host: International Association of Nanotechnology
Time: Monday 27 - Thursday 30
Place: Burlingame
Cost: $795

Gallery of Serial Entrepreneurs
Host: Right-Hand Partners LLP
Time: 5.30 - 8 p.m.
Place: Mountain View
Cost: $50

Tuesday 28th October

Entrepreneurial Best Practices Series : IP and Legal Issues
Host: Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Time: 6.30 - 8.30 p.m.
Place: UC Berkeley
Cost: $50

Web Services SIG: Financial Cloud Services
Host: SD Forum
Time: 6.30 - 9 p.m.
Place: Palo Alto
Cost: Members Free/Non Members $15

BlogWell: How big companies use social media
Host: GasPedal and the Blog Council
Time: 1 - 5 p.m.
Place: San Jose
Cost: $200

SNAP Summit3: All about the Social Web
Host: Room Full of People
Time: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Place: San Francisco
Cost: Student $99/General Admission $249
* Live video stream once the event begins

Innovating and Adapting in the Emerging 3.0 World
Host: New Voice of Business
Time: 5.30 - 7.30 p.m.
Place: San Francisco
Cost: $10 Members/$20 Non Members

Wednesday 29th October

Social Media Strategies Conference [Day 1]
Host: Web Guild Silicon Valley
Time: Wed October 29, 7 a.m. - Thursday October 30, 5 p.m.
Place: San Francisco
Cost: $875 Members/$975 Non Members

The Chronicles of Web Standard: the HTML 5, the Comet and the WebSocket
Host: Silicon Valley Web Builder
Time: 6.30 - 9.30 p.m.
Place: Google Campus, Mountain View
Cost: Free if register online

Lawrence Lessig Remix Book Party
Host: Stanford Law School
Time: 6.30 - 9 p.m.
Place: San Francisco
Cost: Free

Best of San Francisco Show 2008
Host: International Advertising Association (IAA) - West
Time: 6 - 9 p.m.
Place: Adobe, San Francisco
Cost: $25 Members/$35 Non Members/$10 Students with ID

Thursday 30th October

Social Media Strategies Conference [Day 2]

Special Gala Dinner: Distinguished Service Award Celebration
Honoring: Susan Decker, President Yahoo! Inc
Host: Institute of International Education
Time: 6-9 pm
Place: St. Regis Hotel, San Francisco
Cost: $250+

Ubuntu 8.10 Release Party: San Francisco
Time: 7.30 p.m.
Place: The Thirsty Bear, San Francisco
Cost: Free

The Next Generation of Advanced Media
Host: National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
Time: 7 - 9 p.m.
Place: San Francisco
Cost: $10 Members/$30 Non Members

Cross-Cultural User-Experience Design
Host: AIGA
Time: 6.30 - 8.30 p.m.
Place: San Francisco, CA
Cost: Free

Politics 2008: Sound Bites, Spin, and the Search for the Facts
Host: The Churchill Club
Time: 6 - 9 p.m.
Cost: $64 Members / $78 Non Members
Place: Menlo Park

Friday - Halloween

New York Tech Web Events - Week of October 26

The Simple Image Link has been updated to allow the image to be displayed based on the user’s role.

This replaces the ‘Display image’ checkbox in earlier versions.

This is useful for WordPress, including MU, installations which allows users to login.

This functionality was inspired by Praveen’s comment and initial code.

Thanks for all the feedbackon the plugin to date.

While there are some Web publishers that truly ‘get’ the social Web, it seems that many others–specifically corporate and mainstream media bloggers–aren’t quite there yet.  And, they won’t get it until they understand its raison d’être.

Fundamentally, the Web and the Internet came about to enable linking.

The Internet began because people wanted to link computers. The Web began because Sir Tim Berners Lee wanted to be able to link documents. The social Web is based on linking to the ideas and thoughts of others.

So why do people still hesitate before linking to another site?

• Fear of people going elsewhere and not returning
• Fear of low engagement
• Fear of advertising revenue loss

But guess what? It turns out the fears are unfounded.

In a recent post, Scott Karp examines the Drudge Report, a news site completely made out of links and advertising, and explains how linking to others offers the highest engagement - go have a read.

Interestingly, the folk behind the Cluetrain Manifesto have been saying this for years.

Lesson: Link out and link lots!

Tip: Open new links in the same window; let the user be in control

Must Read: Cluetrain Manifesto

Image Credit: Furious George 81

If you tried to leave a comment on any of our posts sometime after the 25th of August [2008] until now [17th of September 2008], please accept our apologies for making you stare of at a blank page and ignoring you.

We have fixed the problem, and the developer has to wear a propeller hat for the next week.

Now excuse me whilst I buy one on Amazon.

I will never use $id as a temporary variable in WordPress again
I will never use $id as a temporary variable in WordPress again
I will never use $id as a temporary variable in WordPress again
I will never use $id as a temporary variable in WordPress again
I will never use $id as a temporary variable in WordPress again
I will never use $id as a temporary variable in WordPress again
I will never use $id as a temporary variable in WordPress again
I will never use $id as a temporary variable in WordPress again
I will never use $id as a temporary variable in WordPress again
I will never use $id as a temporary variable in WordPress again
I will never use $id as a temporary variable in WordPress again

Update: Include absolute dates.