Upcoming Social Media & Tech Events Vegas, DC, TN, TX & CA

October 14-16, 2010, Las Vegas, NV: BlogWorld & New Media Expo is the first and only industry-wide tradeshow, conference and media event dedicated to promoting the dynamic industry of new media including all forms of blogging, podcasting, social media, social networking, online video, music, Internet TV and radio. The BlogWorld conference features more than 120 educational sessions, panel discussions and keynote presentations, while the New Media Expo features the only industry-wide new media marketplace where thousands converge to network and find all of their online business and marketing resources. Running concurrent with the BlogWorld conference, the Social Media Business Summit is the world’s largest social media business conference where marketing executives, business owners and world-renowned companies send their teams to learn the strategies, tactics, tools and technologies they need to build their brands and grow their businesses with social media. Register today with the code MASH20 for 20% off!

October 18-20, 2010, Washington, D.C.: As Social Media quickly emerges as more than a communication tool, the U.S. Government must proactively leverage this new “environment” to achieve organizational goals. IDGA’s 3rd Social Media for Defense and Government provides a forum for senior Government and Military officials, industry partners and academic communities to align shared goals, showcase new technology and define the way forward. This conference will present advanced social media strategies that not only improve communication but actually utilize the tools to improve effectiveness. Register with code MASH4GOV and receive 20% off the standard three-day event fee!

October 18-19, 2010, Dallas, TX: The Restaurant & Hospitality Social Media Marketing Bootcamp event provides the practical knowledge and insights required by restaurant and hotel operators to establish objectives and strategies for your market, properly select the social media platforms to engage guests and monitor and measure the results of these efforts for a greater ROI. This event is presented by RestaurantWorx Consulting and Inside Hospitality. Use the code MASHABLE when registering and receive VIP pricing on “Day 1″ or “Day 1 & 2 Attendance” tickets. See complete event details on the event website at www.restaurantsocialmedia.com.

October 22, 2010, Nashville, TN: Social Media Marketing Workshops 101 & 201 — a full day, hands-on training for businesses who want to create a social media marketing campaign from the ground up. Featuring top 10+ networking sites with step-by-step setup guides on each application with strategies on how they all work together. Sessions include blogging strategy, social CRM, social monitoring, email & mobile marketing, best of Google Analytics, SEO tactics and special focus on Wordpress websites for businesses. These are no-nonsense, intensive learning workshops you wont find anywhere else! Register with the promo codeMASH and save $100!

November 11, 2010, San Francisco, CA: Social Media Prom, presented by @FunnyOrDie, is for anyone and everyone who didn’t have a chance to go to prom. Or maybe you did, but you were the wallflower, someone poured punch down your dress, or gave you a wedgy and hung you from a locker. This is your chance to shine, and relive what you may not have been able to experience from the backseat of the car or behind the bleachers. Visit www.socialmediaprom.com to get your tickets! Don’t have a date? No big deal, go stag! Tickets are $20 for couples and $15 for singles.

For More Up & Coming Events visit Mashable.com

Fantasia, Eric Benet, & Kandi Burress Back To Me Tour Saturday, November 6th 2010

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Pledge To Love Yourself Honors The 21st Year Anniversary of National Domestic Violence Month

Victims oftentimes blame themselves; believing that if they were to do more or do better, the abuse, in turn, will stop. WRONG! In the eyes of an abuser, nothing will ever be good enough therefore giving them justification to continue the abuse.

You are not alone. Unfortunately, there are many women who suffer with you. Most women stay because that have not yet identified their abuse as being abuse while others are simply too afraid to leave. If you are in denial, please visit the following link: www.hiddenhurt.co.uk/Abuser/signs.htm

Founded in 2009 by Philadelphia radio personality Mo'Shay LaRen, Love Yourself is a campaign meant to inspire and uplift women of all ages and ethnicities to begin the process of healing and the restoration of self-love. Through a series of empowerment sessions, town hall meetings and events, Love Yourself will bring awareness to the issue of the silent epidemic known as domestic violence. The dichotomy of the Love Yourself campaign is, while organizing groups of women who have been or are currently involved in abusive relationships, it will also focus on self-love and sisterhood. We will create events and activities to support both goals. We will work steadily to build strategic alliances with other organizations to combine efforts and resources.

There are countless resources to aide and assist you with getting out safely, but it starts with you. Look in the mirror and love the person staring back at you. We are all God's children. PSALMS 139:14 tells us: "We are fearfully and wonderfully made..." So why would a God who promised to love us, give permission to anyone else to abuse what he has so wonderfully and delicately created?

I firmly believe the lack of self love makes you susceptible to becoming a victim of abuse. If you do not first fall in love with yourself, you cannot possibly think of giving or receiving healthy love from another. Today I charge you to stand up and take back your life, esteem yourself and take the pledge from this day forward.

This October marks the 21yr. Anniversary of National Domestic Violence Month. Each year, the Day of Unity is celebrated in hopes to make people aware and prevent domestic violence.

If you would like to volunteer email us at pledgetoloveyourself@gmail.com

Events

Walk a Thon

Sat, October 2, 8am –- 11am

Cooper River Park Camden, NJ

"I Pledge" Kickoff Campaign

Wed, October 6, 10am –- 11am

33rd & Market St. Philadelphia, Pa

Soul Sounds Benefit

Fri, October 15, 9pm - 1am

The Philadelphia Clef Club of Jazz and Performing Arts

738 S. Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pa

Third Annual Domestic Violence Walk

Sat, October 23, Registration 9am walk starts at 10am

Art Museum Philadelphia, Pa

Restorative Justice

Sat, October 23, 11am –- 3pm

Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church Philadelphia, Pa

Domestic Violence Awareness Rally

Thurs, October 27, 6pm at Sykes Union Building Theater West Chester University

West Chester, PA

To Take the Pledge and to learn more about the Love Yourself Campaign visit: http://www.pledgetoloveyourself.com/page-0

Second Annual Philly Neighborhood Food Week October 10th-16th 2010

Media Contact:

3BG Marketing Solutions

(267) 909-9710

www.3bgmarketingsolutions.com

SECOND ANNUAL PHILLY NEIGHBORHOOD FOOD WEEK CELEBRATES MORE LOCAL FLAVOR

PHILADELPHIA - Ardent Management presents the second annual Philly Neighborhood Food Week (PNFW),October 10-16, 2010. Center City is not Philadelphia's only dining destination. Experience the rest of the best. See what lies in your very own back yard and discover the true flavor of your neighborhood.

Due to the success of PNFW last year, the event has been expanded to include more parts of the city. The featured neighborhoods now include City Avenue, Northern Liberties, Ogontz Avenue, East Passyunk, Manayunk, West Passyunk, Darby, Penn's Landing, and South Street. Participating restaurants in each area will offer prix fixe meal options for $20 or $30 per patron.

PNFW generates awareness and activity for all the locations by working with development corporations, business improvement districts and business associations to successfully position each neighborhood. Its diverse group of sponsors, media partners, and champions include RestaurantReservations.com, Movitas, U.S. Foodservice, Philadelphia Weekly,two.one.five magazine, PhillyCarShare, Philadelphia Status, OpenTable, CityBrunchBunch.com, 95.7 Ben FM, Urban Philly, and Temple University's School of Tourism and Hospitality Management, just to name a few. Additionally, last year's PNFW garnered press from over a dozen media outlets.

Renee Gilinger, Main Street Manager of East Passyunk Avenue Business Improvement District said, "East Passyunk saw a ton of new faces in our restaurants during last year's PNFW, and the special prix fixe menu kept the Avenue busy all week."

PNFW was created by Charisse McGill of Ardent Management to showcase restaurants in neighborhoods typically overlooked and underestimated as reputable food centers. PNFW impacts each community's local economy as its participating restaurants experience increased traffic and promote a sustainable dining lifestyle.

"Manayunk restaurants are excited to participate, because it's in the neighborhoods of

Philadelphia where the true treasures are found, from dining, shopping and living." says Howard Moseley Deputy Director of the Manayunk Development Corporation.

For more information, check out the official PNFW website, www.phillyneighborhoodfoodweek.com, or contact 3BG Marketing Solutions.

"The Social Network”: Mashable’s Complete Movie Review

On the surface, The Social Network is the story of Facebook — a website created in a Harvard dorm room in 2004 that has redefined how we connect and communicate in the 21st century. At its core, the film is much, much more than just the story of one website. It is both a micro and macro look at success, failure and the trappings of ego and greed.

The film is ostensibly based on real people and real events. That said, many of the proceedings and characters were invented for the screen. In the coming weeks, there will a flurry of discussion regarding just how accurate or inaccurate the film is with regard to Facebook’sfirst year. Ultimately, these differences and inaccuracies are irrelevant.

For better or for worse, the cinematic version of “the Facebook story” will be what becomes the lore surrounding the company, much as The Pirates of Silicon Valley has become the unofficial history of Microsoft and Apple for a generation of users. From a cinematic perspective, The Social Network is no more or less effective based on its factual accuracy. This is a fictional narrative, not a documentary.

The Beginning

The film opens with one of its strongest scenes, a five-minute interchange between a 19-year-old Mark Zuckerberg and his girlfriend. Zuckerberg, brilliantly portrayed by Jesse Eisenberg, speaks a mile a minute, quickly moving from one topic to the next, leaving his companion to exclaim, “Dating you is like dating a StairMaster.”

Throughout the course of the conversation, an acutely unaware Zuckerberg proceeds to insult his girlfriend, belittling her background, intellect and future life prospects. Having had enough, she ends the relationship and tells him off. The dialogue in this scene is a joy for Aaron Sorkin fans, reminiscent of the best interactions and moments on The West Wing or Sports Night. This scene, one of the most significant additions that Sorkin made to the script — which is loosely based on Ben Mezrich’s The Accidental Billionaires — introduces the audience to Mark, a man who is clearly brilliant, but who is also deeply insecure, awkward and more than a bit antisocial.

It also sets up the motive behind the project that would become the precursor to Facebook, Facemash. With Facemash, a Hot or Not for female students at Harvard (and a post-breakup lashing-out against womankind), Mark brings down the university network, gets in some trouble from the administration and makes himself an outcast on campus. It also brings him to attention of twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, two good-looking, athletic and privileged twins.

The Winklevosses (both played by Armie Hammer) and their friend, Divya Narendra, are looking to build a social dating site for Harvard men. They want Mark to work on the code. He readily agrees.

The dating site spawns a much bigger idea in Mark’s head — and that idea is Facebook. Partnering with his best friend and financier Eduardo Saverin, played by Andrew Garfield, Mark builds The Facebook. What follows is an almost viral spread of user adoption and rapid growth and expansion.

To those of us who joined Facebook in those early days (I believe I joined in January 2005), the sequences demonstrating the takeoff of the service will resonate. One of the most interesting things about Facebook, a site that first built its allure and prestige based on its exclusivity (the need to have a *.edu e-mail address from a supported school and an invite from another user), was just how quickly it spread. Much like YouTube, which launched about a year later, Facebook went from not existing to being everywhere, seemingly overnight.

As Zuckerberg, Jesse Eisenberg is brilliant. I fully expect to see his name on the shortlist for Best Actor nominees when award season ramps up. He manages to make Zuckerberg sympathetic but not pathetic — there’s actually a nuanced difference. The character could have easily been portrayed as a pathetic, socially inept genius. Eisenberg doesn’t do that. He manages to play a three-dimensional character, even though the last five minutes of the film are the only times we ever see a mournful side. His speech patterns, his eye movements, the way that he walks and moves his body — it’s truly one of the best performances of 2010.

For The Second Act & The Summation visit Mashable.com

Passion...Who Needs It? By Shaunice Hawkins

A practical, action-oriented exploration of passion and purpose, and steps you can take if your inner fire has burned itself out

Authored by Shaunice Hawkins

It's painful to come to the realization that
your passion has 'gone missing'.

Without a clear understanding of the factors involved and the changes that may have occurred in your life, you can't take action to regain what youve lost. Passion...Who Needs It? is not about finding your passion. To be honest, there are plenty of books on that subject. This book focuses on giving you a new perspective on passion, one that you can use in a practical, productive way. This book is designed to be an action-oriented exploration of who you are and how insights about yourself can help you get back on track to wherever you would like to go. Page by page, you'll delve deep into
your psyche so that you can:

» Name and identify feelings of grief, loss of purpose and helplessness
» Understand what you are feeling
» Learn strategies on how to renegotiate the sense of loss
» Turn the lack of direction into focus for the accomplishment of
more positive ambitions

You will also find equal measures of instruction, advice, coaching and motivation to help you reconnect with the idealistic, bright-eyed person you were when you first started out.

Get your copy HERE!

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