Social Media Club SFSV: Stories From The Frontline, Building A Social Media Business

This month we're pleased to announce a co-hosted event with the fine folks at TiE Silicon Valley in Santa Clara, sponsored by Cisco. Don't miss this very special event from the world's largest organization of social media professionals and the world's largest organization of entrepreneurs.

(Are you a member of TiE? Please register here.)

The Social Media Club of San Francisco & Silicon Valley and TiE Silicon Valley present: "Stories from the Frontline: Building A Social Media Business"

Moderated by Ben Parr of Mashable.com.

Panelists:
Blake Cahill, Senior VP of Marketing, Visible Technologies

Louis Gray, Managing Director, New Media, Paladin Advisors Group

Emily Melton, Partner, Mayfield Fund

Augie Ray, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research

Jeremy Stoppelman, CEO & Co-Founder, Yelp

Social media continues to grow and touch every aspect of our lives. There's never been a better time for new entrepreneurs to build a business on social platforms and the new technologies and methods of social communities.

But where do you start and how do you get the next big idea? This unique event brings together Technology, Marketing and PR professionals and entrepreneurs, to discuss emerging trends and new opportunities in social media, and what it really takes to start a new business in the increasingly sophisticated frontier of social media in 2010. Our panel of CEOs, industry experts, thought leaders, VC and angel investors will provide unique insights and takeaways that attendees can put to use immediately, as they develop their own social media business.

6:00 pm  Registration, Light Appetizers, Networking

7:00 pm  Program, Q & A

8:30 pm  Networking

9:00 pm  Program Close

About Social Media Club Social Media Club is a not-for-profit group organized for the purpose of promoting media literacy, sharing lessons learned, creating a path to professionalism for media makers, promoting industry standards and discussing important questions of Social Media’s impact on society. As the world’s largest—and first ever—group of Social Media professionals, Social Media Club represents a new breed of associations for the post Web 2.0 world. For more information about Social Media Club please visit www.socialmediaclub.org. If you'd like to receive event updates from the San Francisco / Silicon Valley chapter please join our Facebook group.

About TiE TiE is a global, not-for-profit, non-political and non-religious organization dedicated to one thing: fostering and nurturing entrepreneurship across our international network. Since our founding in 1992 TiE has grown into the world’s largest organization for entrepreneurs and professionals, with 55 chapters, on 5 continents in 13 countries. Membership includes 1800 Charter Members who are successful and experienced entrepreneurs and corporate executives and over 12,000 aspiring entrepreneurs and professional members. Our sponsors include the top Venture Capital firms, Fortune 500 Companies and professional service providers. For more information about TiE please visit www.tie.org.

Very special thanks to our Gold Sponsor: Cisco Systems