Laura Rich
Media relations consultant; journalist; startup addict

An evening fundraising extravaganza featuring special guests Dr. Sylvia Earle. Catered by The Wild Catch, Denver's first sustainable seafood restaurant and special drinks by 303 Vodka, Stone Brewing and The Infinite Monkey Theorem. Jen Lewin will have her interactive blue "Ocean" exhibit where you can light up your night.

John...

The Boulder Clean Energy Business Coalition invites you to join

Former Senator Gary Hart

for cocktails and conversation about voting YES on 2B & 2C in this fall’s election


Thursday, September 29th, 2011 from 5:30pm until 7:00pm
at the home of Bob Morehouse & Noel Maye
2225 Grape Avenue, Boulder, Colorado 80304


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Let's all get together for one last sunset on the porch! Hope you can make it!

How much do you think you know about the history of PHP? What about gyroscope navigation? Join local tech and entrepreneur figures downstairs at the Lazy Dog for a night of 'Tech Jeopardy.'

Topics will include fantastic nerdery such as coding languages, APIs, music & data and more! Test your Boulder knowledge with topics on...

Get your picture taken at the Mashable House in front of Step & Repeat and follow ALL the pictures from SXSWi on Pixable's Photofeed.

Props and pix in front of Step & Repeat. Check Pixable's Photofeed regularly for pix from SXSWi!

Are you coming to SXSW and do you love news and information You must come to Awesomest Journalism Party. Ever.   Cohosted and sponsored by Hacks/Hackers, ONA, the Poynter Institute, the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, USC Annenberg School of Journalism, JVision Cloud, Scribd, J-Lab, Tableau Software, and more to come. We've got...

At SXSW and interested in media innovation? Join @knightfdn and American Public Media to brainstorm over Austin beer and food truck-inspired cuisine with an opportunity to see demos of innovative news projects. Open to all badgeholders, must RSVP. Venue capacity is limited. So RSVP is no guarantee of entry. Come early.

SXSWi is right around the corner. Why not kick it off with a bang at the Official SXSWi Happy Hour sponsored by Razorfish?

Join us on Saturday, March 12th, 2011, from 6-8PM at the Phoenix (409 B Colorado St). DJ Hot Sauce will be spinning the tunes to get you in the mood to party. And the open bar means there will be plenty of free drinks. But...

This is a telling of the history of Nikola Tesla. It was created in under 24 hours for the 154th anniversary of Nikola Tesla's birth. It has been featured on Gizmodo, i09.com, YouTube, Vimeo, and other popular websites.

Join Eloqua and Bulldog Solutions in the pre-party to the party! Don't want to wait around until the official SXSW Interactive kick off party to start networking, socializing and, of course, drinking? Stop by Club DeVille starting at 6pm and join your fellow #SXSW attendees in the countdown to the kick off. All are welcome!

As the digital revolution decimates traditional local news media, a variety of new organizations are emerging – fitfully – to fill the gaps. Some of their challenges, such as content creation and technology, are relatively easy to solve. But others – building an audience and finding sustainable revenues – are much harder. In this session,...

The public infrastructure of our cities are obscure structures whose workings are not accessible to most citizens. What if every sensor in our cities would have a Web API anyone could access in real-time and mashup? Open and easy to use Web platforms that enable efficient integration, processing, storage, and access to the enormous amount of data...

Jeff Jarvis will be stopping by the SX Bookstore to greet registrants and sign copies of his book, What Would Google Do?

This industry has a ratio problem. Still. It's getting better, but panels, conferences, magazine articles, VC funding - it's all dominated by men. In a big way. Is this because women are lame and uncreative? No. Is it because men are evil and sexist? No. (Sheesh, no.) But - where there is such an obvious and unrelenting gender disparity,...

Time included Flipboard in its list of "The 50 Best Inventions of 2010” and Apple named Flipboard “iPad App of the Year.” Others have raised questions about the company’s relationships with publishers and ability to monetize the social magazine. Kara Swisher questions Flipboard's CEO Mike McCue on the intersection of...

As the SXSW Interactive Festival continues to grow, it often becomes harder to discover /network with the specific type of people you want to network with. Hence a full slate of daytime Meet Ups are scheduled for the 2011 event. These Meet Ups are definitely not a panel session -- nor do they offer any kind of formal presentation or AV setup. On...

Gone are the days when brands needed to rely on high profile stories to establish credibility—today, brand marketers become content curators by mingling content from trusted sources with their own material. Long gone is the need to purchase ad space in a relevant trade publication—instead, marketers just create their own site on the topic. At a...

This dual presentation will explore common play elements in location-based games. We’ll analyze the popular "Check-In" mechanic (used by products like FourSquare and GoWalla), and take a look at the business and social forces that have influenced its emergence as the popular geo game model.

The presentation will compare current...

With Fred Graver (Travel Channel), Lila King (CNN iReport), Gavin Purcell (Late Night with Jimmy Fallon), Chloe Sladden (Twitter), and Timothy Shey (Next New Networks).

How is social media changing the TV experience for good? Over the past ten years, we've seen television become truly interactive, from SMS voting on American Idol to real-time...

{Sponsors: Better Homes & Gardens Real Estate and Nokia} You must be previously invited to attend this event
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Annual VIP/Entrepreneur Lounge at Fogo de Chao!!!

DATES ARE:
Friday, March 11
Saturday, March 12
Sunday, March 13
Tuesday, March 15
Wednesday, March 16
Thursday, March 17

*STRICT* invite-only and RSVP...

A Cowboy Steampunk themed part at SXSW. Done by the same crew that did pastriesandpasties.com in 09 and the steampunk party that brought Maker Faire to Austin Texas in 2006. The lineup is already looking amazing... website should be up soon!

Let's start SXSW right with a yearly tradition - predrinks at the Driskill hotel bar.

Every year at SXSW we start off the weekend with a couple relaxing drinks in the historic Driskill hotel bar. If you've never been there's no time like the present to get in on this tradition. Stay as long as you want, there are no rules. Its just...

Catch up with the #140conf Community while you are at SXSW. Jeff Pulver is holding a Texas style cocktail party Friday, March 11, from 7-9pm. The lights will be up, the music low, the energy will be high, and you can enjoy interacting in a space just right for making connections and creating lasting relationships. You deside which state is bigger,...