Lena Shaw
PR Manager. Social Media Evangelist Santa Clara Grad , Closet Geek, Music Fanatic, Coach , Globetrotter that prefers to be playing outside.

Join Fast Company for a day of thoughtful, provocative and uplifting conversation.

Frontline leaders from a variety of industries will share progressive thinking and engage in candid conversations – what went right – what went wrong – and more importantly, what’s up next?

Confirmed speakers include:
Mark Pincus, Founder, CEO & Chief...

In 2011 we’ll be back at the San Francisco Hilton – Union Square on September 25-27 and we expect an even larger crowd from the worlds of technology, health plans, providers, pharma, government, health plans, finance and more to see the most comprehensive line-up of technology innovation, discuss the latest changes in health care, and...

Venture Innovation Program  Symposium on Digital Health : "Interactions, Games & Incentives in Healthcare"   DATE   Tuesday, September 20, 2011 TIME   5:30 - 9:00 pm with networking hour PLACE   UCSF Mission Bay, Genentech Hall, Genentech Auditorium ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM The Venture Innovation Program (VIP)...

The Medicine 2.0 Fall Conference 2011 will be hosted in Silicon Valley, home to many of the world's preeminent technology companies such as Google, Apple, Facebook, Yahoo, Intel, and others. The conference will be hosted by the Stanford University School of Medicine, and will be held at the school's brand new $90 millon Li Ka Shing Center...

  Join Girls in Tech, San Francisco and Tripping.com for cocktails after Day 2 of TechCrunch's Disrupt SF 2011! We'll be at Mars Bar (7th St and Brannan St), conveniently located just in front of the conference venue, so swing by and meet the Girls in Tech and Tripping communities. More about us. . . Tripping is a social travel site...

Are you achieving maximum value out of salesforce.com? The Cloud has not only changed the business model and implementation cycle for projects, it has changed the approach companies need to manage these applications post go-live. Yet 80% of customers do not have an effective strategy to manage change and innovate ongoing. See how leading companies...

Structure is GigaOM’s flagship conference on Cloud Computing and Internet Infrastructure, bringing together the most influential thinkers in the space for two days. Be sure to join us.

Event Website: http://viralvideosf.com/
Tickets: http://viralvideosf.ticketleap.com/june9/

Ever wonder how viral videos work? How creators ensure views on YouTube? Who is pulling the strings when a video goes viral?

Two of San Francisco's leading digital creative agencies (PORTAL A INTERACTIVE and SEEDWELL with over 50 million combined views...

Flogging Molly will be performing at Amoeba SF on June 2, 2011 in honor of the release of their brand new album "Speed of Darkness"! The band will be doing a signing right after the set. RSVP here!

Mediabistro, SocialTimes and AllFacebook present SMOC: Social Media Optimization Conference.

For full details and registration, visit: http://mbist.ro/gT6Xfx

Social Media Optimization Conference is a two-day event dedicated to the latest social media optimization research and methodology Whether you are looking to boost your visibility in search...

The SF MusicTech Summit brings together 800+ visionaries in the music/technology space, along with the best and brightest developers, entrepreneurs, investors, service providers, journalists, musicians and organizations who work with them at the convergence of culture and commerce. We meet to discuss the evolving music/business/technology ecosystem...

Girls in Tech presents 'A Fireside Chat with Dennis Crowley'

Wanted: Curious folks who want to share and learn from each other.

Promise: Two presenters who will shape the discussion and keep attendees engaged in the conversation.

Goal: To have everyone walk away having learned something they can apply to their world.

Whether you're in healthcare or not, this discussion can both benefit from your...

Join HealthTap for a morning of lively conversation with healthcare innovators, industry experts, entrepreneurs, developers, social media gurus and other supporters of a new age for health!
Chat with Ron Gutman, Founder and CEO of HealthTap, and other health evangelists about the future of personalized, social & interactive health, participate...

Join PBS, NPR, Frontline, ITVS, P.O.V., StoryCorps and Blogads at the Parish for live music and a celebration of South by Southwest.

Music by: Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue (http://www.tromboneshorty.com/)

The *ultimate* Gowalla Informal Meet-up for players in Austin during SXSW. This is a fan-generated meet-up.

Sunday from 1:00-3:00 or so ~ perhaps we will adjourn to a local watering hole for some refreshment!

Hopefully there will be some spare Gowalla stuff to be found!

Come on by and say howdy to Gowallaites from around the country and the...

There are endless tools that purport to make people healthier, from mobile phone apps to blood-pressure-tracking software. But what, truly, is the impact of these tools? Are they motivating healthier behaviors? Are they improving people’s health? And more important, are they being used by the people who need them most?

This panel centers on the...

I'll be giving a presentation at SXSW followed by a book signing at the SXSW bookstore:
http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/5551


I've confirmed the time -- it'll be at 12:30pm on the 13th.

The Health 2.0 and Open Gov movements have helped unlock large repositories of data - from user-generated data in hundreds of online communities to mobile devices to federal quality indicators to medical record data within provider organizations. But much remains to be done to connect these disconnected islands of data to generate information...

Social media platforms create new challenges for healthcare practitioners and other professionals who actively participate in online communities that have emerged on Facebook, Twitter and similar applications. While it's not unusual for those with chronic health issues and long term medical problems to build close relationships with care...

The Mashable SXSWi House 2011 will break the mold of the traditional SXSWi events schedule. Working with SXSWi and our partner sponsors, we will create a two-day platform that will include private events, VIP networking hours and large open parties. From Sunday, March 13th to Monday, March 14th, Mashable will be hosting a combination of private...

Join us in person for our annual Live Diggnation in Austin at SXSW (you know what that means - beer, magic and the best kind of debauchery!). Also appearing is resident magician Brian Brushwood of Scam School, Indie rock duo Bad Veins, and our favorite nerd-tastic musician, DJ Mike Relm! So if you're in Austin for all the SXSW goodness, or you...

Note: an RSVP at Plancast will not get you in the door. You must RSVP at EventBrite. Don't forget to RSVP for the Refresh Austin party across the street as well. Update #2 Woot! The WordPress Foundation has joined us as a co-host for the party. Update #1 I just spoke with Tony Cecala of the DFW WordPress Meetup, and they will be joining us...

The last decade was the decade of social. The coming one will be the decade of games. Over the past years, a few key companies have built, and now maintain, a powerful framework to foster digital connections between our friends, family and colleagues. What comes next is another framework, not another social layer, but a "game...

Come get some poolside food and drinks (including Veev cocktails) at the Klout #Krib for SxSW. The UserVoice Challenge Cab will be shuttling as many people to the event as possible for free – AND giving out nifty prizes. If you can’t get in the challenge cab, we’ll also have a limo for additional transport.

UPDATE: We're excited to...