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Major thanks to our newest team member, Edwin Colmenares, for pulling together this list of upcoming social media conferences.

Social Media World Forum
Summary: Social Media World Forum is an interactive and engaging conference where you can learn new ways to integrate social media into marketing plans, use social media for brand building, and attend various panel discussion/workshops.

• When: November 1 & 2, 2011
• Where: Javits Centre, NY
• Website: http://www.socialmedia-forum.com/northamerica

Social CRM 2011
Summary: Social CRM is one-day conference that will be fully interactive with presentations to discuss ways organizations integrate social media into sales, marketing, research, strategy-making and customer communications.

• When: November 3, 2011
• Where: New York, NY
• Website: http://www.oursocialtimes.com/socialcrmnewyork

Blog World & New Media Expo
Summary: Learn how to create better content, grow your brand, audience and revenue online from the world’s most successful New Media experts & Social Media innovators like Peter Shankman, Guy Kawasaki and more.

• When: November 3-5, 2011
• Where: Los Angeles Convention Center
• Website: http://www.blogworldexpo.com

Mashable Media Summit
Summary: The Mashable Media Summit is targeted toward professionals in digital, tech, advertising, sales, marketing, mobile, and publishing in order to learn from industry leaders. Speakers will discuss how media organizations, journalism professionals and the advertising industry are seizing the opportunities created by the innovations and innovators in the space

• When: November 4, 2011
• Where: New York, NY
• Website: http://mashable.com/media-summit

PubCon 2011
Summary: PubCon is a search and social media conference that will look at the future of technology and location-aware services such as Twitter, Foursquare, and Gowalla. It includes a search and social media training day, keynote from Leo Laporte and SEO managers from CNN, The Wall Street Journal and Disney. PubCon is also used as a launching ground for many new products.

• When: November 7-10, 2011
• Where: Las Vegas Convention Center
• Website: http://www.pubcon.com/pubcon-vegas-2011

Social Media Makeover Forum
Summary: Social Media Makeover Forum is a half-day forum for small and mid-sized businesses to learn about implementing social media engagement strategy and a chance to talk to experts about which metrics to use for measurements impacts, set realistic expectations of social media and more. It is a way to revamp your current social media strategy.

• When: November 8, 2011
• Where: Atlanta, GA
• Website: http://www.listeninteractive.com/social-media-makeover/

LATISM National Conference
Summary: This is a Latino-focused social media conference that focuses on the use of social media to amplify the impact of public service in Latino communities. This year is the first time that the conference is fully bilingual in Spanish and English.

• When: November 9 & 10, 2011
• Where: Chicago
• Website: http://conference.latism.org

PR News’ Twitter Conference
Summary: PR News’ Twitter Conference is a twitter-focused conference for communication professionals. It is a one-day conference on how to make PR professionals the main Twitter strategists for their organization where they can learn how to get the right people to follow your brand, measuring twitter activities and when to use hashtags.

• When: November 10, 2011
• Where: The Wynn, Las Vegas
• Website: http://www.prnewsonline.com/conferences/twitterconference-nov2011.html

GeekEND
Summary: This is a place where the brightest geeks, designers, artists, social media mavericks and forward thinking entrepreneurs are brought together to discuss and share knowledge on social media and the future.

• When: November 10-12, 2011
• Where: Savannah, GA
• Website: http://geek-end.com

SES Chicago
Summary: The leading search and social marketing event where professional can learn new methods of link building, track and maximize ROI using free and paid analytics software as well as workshops and an expo floor.

• When: November 14-18, 2011
• Where: Hyatt Regency, Chicago
• Website: http://www.searchenginestrategies.com/chicago

Social Media Plus: A web 2.0 Business Summit
Summary: Social Media Plus is the Mid-Atlantic region’s largest business summit for professionals interested in learning about the latest in Social Media and web 2.0 technologies.

• When: November 15 & 16, 2011
• Where: Philadelphia, PA
• Website: http://socialmediaplus.com

SMX Social Media Marketing
Summary: SMX Social Media Marketingis a two-day conference held in an intimate retreat-like environment to learn new techniques to drive site traffic, increase conversations about your brand and harness the power of social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube and many more.

• When: December 5 & 6, 2011
• Where: Scottsdale, AZ
• Website: http://searchmarketingexpo.com/socialmediamarketing

Social Media Conference
Summary: Social Media Conference is the industry’s largest event that investigates social media to improve on strategic communication strategies for government and corporations. The conference consists of morning seminars and lectures followed by afternoon workshops.

• When: January 23-30, 2011
• Where: Miami, FL
• Website: http://www.socialmediaconference.com

Have another conference to share? Let us know, and we’ll add it to the list.

I had the pleasure of attending Advertising Week DC last week, and I found that a few key themes kept popping up throughout the week. Thanks to everyone who worked hard to put the event on.

We’re in a new age of consumer research

From secure communities like Communispace to the open online conversation insights that we pull together here at Loudpixel, the way we seek out consumer and competitive insights has changed drastically over the past five years. More marketers are starting to see the direct returns from uncovering these insights—both in product and communications development.

The lines between advertising and PR continue to become more blurred

I found it fascinating that Arnold Worldwide’s Roger Baldacci brought up Gatorade Replay as an example of the new age of advertising. As someone with a public relations background, I know that this initiative could have just as easily fallen under the PR hat. There is certainly increased crossover with earned and paid media, particularly in the digital space, and we’re going to have to learn how to work together effectively.

Consumers want to be heard, but they still don’t expect it

While many consumers are out there talking about brands and people online, most are still somewhat shocked to hear from company representatives personally. For this reason, companies that do respond have an upper hand. Think about it—it’s easy to complain about someone behind their back, but it requires much more thought to give feedback directly to a person who wants to hear what you have to say.

Take a closer look at what Loudpixel has to offer this Thursday, May 13 at TECH cocktail Chicago 13. Loudpixel will be demoing along with 11 other local startups and will be among the 500+ expected attendees at this year’s event. We will be demoing our internal reporting dashboard and will be on-hand to discuss all that our research and monitoring services have to offer.

Come out, grab a cocktail and find us in the start-up demo area to see for yourself how Loudpixel can help you make the right decisions for your company or brand on the web.

Event Details:

What: TECH cocktail Chicago 13
When: Thursday, May 13, 2010 from 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM (CT)
Where: John Barleycorn Wrigleyville, Chicago, IL

RSVP for a reduced ticket price ($10 online, $20 at the door).

We hope to see you there!