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Who: Whether you work as a brand manager, at an agency, or in a startup, learning from your peers and accessing hard-to-reach mentors is the fastest way to grow in your career as a creative/tech-savvy marketing pro.  This Internet Week NY forum is for the young guns and those strivers marching towards the c-suite.  What: The city's...

Join us for the debut Tow-Knight startup demo night! NYC Media startups will share their projects with 5-minute demos followed by brief Q&A sessions.  Agenda: 6:30 to 7:00 Snacks & Networking  7:00 to 8:30 Demos & Presentations 8:30 to 9:00 Snacks and Networking  Startups featured include:  Contently Culture Craver PadInMotion...

Tonight's 4th Annual Digital Media MBA Career Event is just a few hours away! Join us for an evening of networking with a career-minded twist. Join us for an evening of networking with a career-minded twist. We have exec recruiters, PR and ad agencies, as well as digital startups all looking to meet candidates with the right fit! Speak with...

NYVC: Speaker Series with Jonathan Teo from General Catalyst July 28th, 6:30-8:30 PM Organized by New York Venture Community (NYVC) Dogpatch Labs 36 East 12th Street New York, NY 10003 Jonathan Teo Bio As a Managing Director of General Catalyst Partners, Jonathan invests in both new and existing technology businesses. His areas of special...

This month we've decided to SUPER SIZE our featured guests list and invite the senior executives from some of NYC's hottest digital startups. These companies have been working closely with us on consulting projects by Columbia Business School student teams and we know they represent a great cross-section of the local digital media...

     SORRY, NO DAY OF REGISTRATION! All Profits Go To Charity!   Want to register as a startup employer? Visit: http://bit.ly/SATFemployer In Partnership With:                                                                                                    "The job of the...

Recognized as a leading global gathering for Internet innovators and influencers, Internet Week New York is expected to draw more than 20,000 people to over 200 events at both its headquarters located at Chelsea’s Metropolitan Pavilion and at dozens of locations throughout Gotham.

Internet Week New York 2010, which took place from June 7-14,...

Welcome Event for New Members   Come meet other freelancers, the Freelancers Union team, ask questions, and learn what membership’s all about.   When you joined Freelancers Union, you became part of a community and a national movement based on mutual support and exchange. Collectively, we’re working to win equal protections and supports...

With two parties in April behind us -- the Career Event and the April happy hour -- we are now just looking to find our next featured guest speaker for May. Oh that's right, we've already gotten him! In May we'll be joined by Paul Greenberg, CEO of CollegeHumor Media (an operating business of IAC) who will tell us all about the...

Special Note: The Digital DUMBO Workshop Series is new event programming from Digital DUMBO. This is not to be confused with our free monthly event!  Workshop Description: Sharing's no longer just about having good manners. Collaboration within a community creates real savings and opportunities for partnership. Finding talent, space, and...

Sharing’s no longer just about having good manners. Collaboration within a community creates real savings and opportunities for partnership. Finding talent, space, and folks to defray cost of ownership or projects is getting easier every day. You need to learn how to harness this trend for your network and your business. Join DUMBO startups...

Missed registration? That's ok! Email shane@barcampnyc.org   BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees. The event doesn't cost any money, but there is a price: all attendees must give a demo, a...

A two day exhibition of recent works by the students of ITP

Digital media's economic conditions are addressed in "The Story So Far: What We Know About The Business of Digital Journalism," a special report by Bill Grueskin, Quantum Media's Ava Seave, and Lucas Graves. According to Seave, "the report will examine some legacy business models for media, but our focus is on the economic...

Join the General Assembly community for our first Demo Night — a casual and lively evening of product demos and discussion for GA members to exhibit cool stuff they've designed or built to the rest of the General Assembly community, and the public.

Media Guru Extra: Curation Nation Author Steve Rosenbaum

Rosenbaum’s vision for the digital media economy is that context - rather than content - is king. He clarifies how and why readers, users, and customers have become the true power players and how companies can use them in curating a better mousetrap.

Come and join us for our annual IMSA NYC Spring get together...

Don't miss out on the chance to catch up with fellow alumni and learn about developments at the Academy. Previous gatherings have been a chance to see familiar faces, as well as meet people from other classes who have more in common with you than you'd ever imagine. Yare...

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The Connected Creativity Forum, the new global forum uniting decision makers and innovators in connected entertainment, will be held from 5-7 April at the Majestic Hotel in parallel with MIPTV.

Organised in partnership with GSMA, the leading mobile industry association, these three days of high-level conferences and networking sessions will bring...

Join the New York City Twestival committee in supporting iMentor - a nonprofit that connects professionals to mentees in high school in New York City. More information about Twestival below and more about iMentor on our blog!

Early bird tickets are on sale now: http://newyork.twestival.com/

Thursday, March 24
7:00pm -11:00pm
Location TBD...

How does the social experience differ on mobile? How do mobile social networks differ from traditional online? Is mobile social more "real"? How has the check-in experience evolved?

Jumpwire President, Gavin McGarry will be talking with Kimber Myers from Get Glue to find out how mobile is reshaping the social media experience.

We are pleased to announce the next edition of Social Media Week, taking place in 8 cities worldwide from February 7-11 in New York, San Francisco, London, Hong Kong, Rome, Toronto, Paris and Sao Paulo. Learn more about the event here: http://bit.ly/ePWppA

Event schedules will go live for each location at the beginning of January 2011, but please...

Social Media Week is a “distributed conference,” with social media events taking place in locations throughout the city at organizations such as the New York Times, Wired, Razorfish and Nielsen.

This is for participating locations in North America only. Arizona, Saskatchewan, Sonora, Greenland, Hawaii, and various islands off North America do not observe the time change.

And while you're changing your clocks, remember to check your smoke detector batteries. One third of all smoke detectors have dead, near dead or disconnected...

Ignite NYC to kickoff Web 2.0 Expo NY! Ladies and gentlemen, the tenth Ignite NYC will take place as part of Web 2.0 Expo NY. Please join us on September 27th to watch another incredible evening of speakers taking the stage to talk about topics they are passionate about. Brady Forrest, co-chair of Web 2.0 Expo will be joining Ignite NYC's...