Jen Charlton
Language lover, sometime musician, world explorer, cultural observer, aspiring pythonista, formerly in advertising now @ a startup. Does MarCom. NY to SF via FR

Join us for 3-days of music at the 4th Annual Brooklyn Folk Festival on Friday, May 18th to Sunday, May 20th in Downtown Brooklyn! For the complete schedule and tickets, visit www.brooklynfolkfest.com.

This year, the founders of the Brooklyn Folk Festival will transform 27,000-sq-ft of raw space at 345 Jay Street into a musical wonderland to...

A fundraiser for a great charity- they take kids from American high school to Africa to help build schools!
And We're playing! (also playing, @Robb-and-the-Handsome-Few )
And there's an open bar!
Very worthwhile (and still fun)
here's their event
http://www.facebook.com/events/356987237677777/
and here's them:...

Join us for open bar, live music from NYC's The Adversary, and a silent auction to raise money to build a school in Africa!

RSVP on EventBrite: http://buildonnyc.eventbrite.com/

Join buildOn.org on April 25th at the Village Pourhouse as we raise funds to build a school in Africa.

We'll have Open Bar, performances from two NYC bands and a Silent Auction.

100% of proceeds will go directly to the nonprofit to advance education in Africa, where just $22 can provide education for a child for a full year. A suggested...

Come hear international bloggers who will share their personal experience with censorship, and Internet experts who will offer information and new technology to help netizens of the world outwit surveillance.

As the UN humanitarian headquarters and the host city of numerous NGOs, Geneva is considered the world capital of human rights. The Swiss...

What would Jean-Jacques Rousseau say about our democracies if he were among us today?

Intellectuals, political leaders, activists, and artists from both Geneva and the U.S. join forces toto try to answer that question. Rousseau was an ardent defender of equality, justice and democratic participation. His moral and civic anger at the ways in which...

Goodbye 20′s. Hello 30′s! Please come join me to celebrate my 30th birthday at The Whiskey Brooklyn beginning around 9:30pm. (http://whiskeybrooklyn.com) Bring whomever you want with you.

** And, that picture is of me when I was 6 years old - circa 1988. Holy 80's fashion going on ;) I still kind of dig those white lace tights though! **

Do we really need an excuse to party? We got the space, you bring the booze. See you there!!

Order tickets via Eventbrite:
http://doodlely.eventbrite.com/


Please join us for this panel on Social Sharing and the Art of Doodling, featuring...



Lance Ulanoff, Editor-in-Chief of Mashable

Alexis Ohanian, Co-Founder, Reddit

Evan Vogel, Co-Founder, Doodle.ly

Doug Jaeger, Professor at SVA




Date: Monday, February 13

Time: 4:30 PM -...

Hey gang. We know some of you are out of town or have other plans. We can assure you that of all the things you could be doing on NYE, this will be the worst for your health and well-being. Something to consider. It's going to be horrible. Please RSVP so we know how many elephants to buy.

Follow us on Twitter: @santacon
Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/SantaCon-NYC/183503728366960

Santacon is a non-denominational, non-commercial, non-political and non-sensical Santa Claus convention that occurs once a year for absolutely no reason.


You better watch out:

Don ye now your gay apparel
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TEDxBrooklyn
Friday, December 2, 2011
Brooklyn Bowl
tedxbrooklyn.com

We will be announcing our initial speaker list, schedule, and pricing options in Mid-October. Please RSVP here (www.tedxbrooklyn.com/2011) to be the first to know, and to have access to early-bird pricing.

About TEDxBrooklyn:
We're living in what is commonly referred to...

#techdrinkup is a party for NYC's brightest and savviest people in tech to get together at exclusive NYC venues and mingle over drinks and food. This party will be held on December 1st at 8PM at XVI Lounge A view from our previous party at XVI The specials:  1.5 hour open vodka bar (From 8pm - 9:30pm) Heated & Covered Rooftop...

Now in its 2rd year, the SMWF North America event this year will be providing a format for networking, engagement, and lots of social media debate around the latest tools, technologies, platforms, and emerging trends within social media marketing.

The show has grown significantly to become one of the leading shows in its field, hosting a variety...

NOTE: START LOCATION HAS CHANGED DUE TO THE CONTINUED PRESENCE OF OCCUPY SAN FRANCISCO AT JUSTIN HERMAN PLAZA. We will instead meet near Cupid's Span, the bow and arrow sculpture by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen at Rincon Park, near Folsom Street and the Embarcadero.

Pre-register here: http://journey2011.heroku.com/

The third...

This special evening is a Wine Salon with industry experts sharing and demonstrating the unique ways they engage their audience. We will have 3-4 vignettes presented throughout the evening as these industry experts show and tell.

>>>REGISTER NOW http://bit.ly/nYbJCq

This will be a fun, entertaining, educational event for all SF...

hello friends!

Please join us on October 16th for the first ever Vintage Crawl- a self guided shop and bar hop through Williamsburg and Greenpoint...are you up for the challenge? This premier event will feature a designated bargain hunt through the best vintage shops- men's, women's and home- in the neighborhood and bars along the...

You are invited to join us for this exciting Social Media Club- Silicon Valley event! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hosted by Talenthouse in Palo Alto, join us to discuss: Security, Privacy and Social Networking Can we have it all? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The social media landscape has dramatically shifted with the addition of Google+, the fastest-growing...

Register now: http://bit.ly/p9rl43

We have all seen that video has become a critical part of the marketing mix over the last few years from the use of video conferencing at events to the promotion of products through viral videos on YouTube. The SFAMA's next event will look into why video has become an increasingly more popular tool, the key...

Wire+Nail Gallery presents the first in a series of collaborations of art and code, a curatorial initiative we call WEBWORKS. Luca N. Antonucci, current gallery artist, and hacker Jeffrey Jenkins will unveil an organic work of art that lives solely on the interwebs. It's like nothing else and cannot be missed!

Last year, on this very day, i packed up my bags in Chicago - actually one bag - and moved to San Francisco.

On Aug 24th, two days after i turn the big 25, i will be moving to New Orleans.

What's in New Orleans? Why New Orleans?

No fucking clue - it just sounded like a great idea, and it's also less scarier than New York where my...

It’s the fanciest thing to ever cost absolutely nothing! BAN6 presents Literary Death Match!

Join hosts Bucky Sinister and Alia Volz for this thrilling FREE event at beautiful Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco!

In a never-before-attempted feat of flexibility, four authors will read original work written especially for LDM, and...

Hi Friends,

Hard to believe my time here is up, but come wish me well and reminisce about the past three months next Thursday at The Thermidor.
The oh-so-fantastic Justin and Bruce have given us the full side of the bar for plenty of fun and easy mingling/drinking, and they have a full menu of some of my favorite SF food as well.

Feel free to...

In case your summer plans were looking for an exclamation point, we have a few up our sleeve. Outside Lands is ramping back up to three full days of lights, sound and gourmet action for the 4th installment! August 12, 13 & 14TH, 2011 will have the heart of San Francisco pumping. Imagine what that can do for a summer, for a soul. Mark your...

WordCamp San Francisco is the official annual conference of the WordPress open source project.

WordCamp SF 2010 brought together 700+ WordPress users and developers from around the world. In 2011 we're expanding the programming for publishers, bloggers, and developers.

In the weeks ahead, we'll be soliciting speakers, sponsors, and...