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Announcing Mashable’s NextUp NYC: The Future Journalist [Social Media Week]

January 14, 2010 - 23:56

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I am pleased to announce Mashable’s Social Media Week event, NextUp NYC – The Future Journalist, will be held on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 at 92YTribeca (Tickets on sale here). The fourth Mashable NextUp NYC will focus on the changing skills and traits of journalists in a changing media landscape.

As the news industry looks to reconstruct its suffering business model, the journalists of today must reconstruct their skill sets for the growing world of online media. The night will consist of networking and a conversation and Q&A with Sree Sreenivasan (Professor and Columbia Journalism School Dean of Student Affairs and contributing editor of DNAinfo.com) and Vadim Lavrusik (new media journalist and digital media graduate student at Columbia University Journalism School).

Details

Tickets: There are only 300 public tickets available per event. Tickets on sale through 92YTribeca, a non-profit organization. No further tickets will be released.

Location: 92Y Tribeca, 200 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10013

Pricing: $20 in advance, $25 at door. Tickets on Sale Now.

Food and drink: Full cash bar and food menu available

Schedule

6:00 – 7:15 = Open Networking

7:15 – 8:45 = Conversation and Q&A with Sree Sreenivasan and Vadim Lavrusik

8:45 – Bar Close = Open Networking

A Conversation and Q&A with:

Sree Sreenivasan – Prof. Sree Sreenivasan, Columbia Journalism School Dean of Student Affairs and contributing editor, DNAinfo.com.

Sree Sreenivasan is a tech evangelist and skeptic specializing in explaining technology to non-techies. He is a professor and dean of students affairs at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where he teaches in the digital media program. Sreenivasan is contributing editor at DNAinfo.com, a Manhattan-news startup he helped launch in 2009 with Joe Ricketts, the founder of Ameritrade and whose family just bought the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field. He also has been a fixture on NYC-area television. For more than eight years, he served as technology reporter for WABC-TV and WNBC-TV and now occasionally appears on various TV shows (on CNN, NBC’s Today Show, CNBC and elsewhere) to talk tech. He has written articles for The New York Times, BusinessWeek, Rolling Stone, National Journal, Bloomberg, Forbes and Popular Science. You can find him on Twitter at twitter.com/sreenet and on the Web at sree.net.

Vadim Lavrusik – Online journalist and M.S. candidate in Digital Media at Columbia Journalism School

Vadim Lavrusik is a new media journalist and social media consultant studying digital media at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism where he is launching NYC 3.0, a tech start-up news site as part of his Master’s project. He is also currently working as a social media consultant at the New York Times. He’s reported for publications like the Star Tribune, The Minnesota Daily, the Mpls./St. Paul Business Journal and most recently was a guest feature writer for Mashable.com, where he covered trends in news media, and contributed to Poynter Online’s E-Media Tidbits. You can follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/lavrusik and the Web lavrusik.com.

Call for Sponsors

As all of our NextUp NYC events funds go directly to 92YTribeca’s non-profit programming, we are looking for Sponsors to come aboard and support the event. Please contact adamh @ mashable for more information.

Thanks to our Partner

SMAC – the Social Media Advertising Consortium fosters collaboration throughout the entire social media ecosystem, diving deep into critical issues and staying ahead of this constantly evolving industry. By bringing together buy side, sell side, and research professionals to develop relevant standards, comprehensive research and definitive measurement tools, our goal is to grow revenues and increase engagement. SMAC members are groundbreakers. Entrepreneurs. Thought leaders. Together, we form a community that feeds off each other’s creativity, creating an environment for learning and discovery.”

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Free Job Postings for Non-Profits This Week [HAPPY HOLIDAYS]

December 21, 2009 - 23:32

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Since running the Summer of Social Good, I’ve been approached numerous times by individuals looking for jobs in the non-profit space. In the spirit of the holidays, Mashable is giving away free 30 day job postings on our Mashable Job Board to any non-profit looking to hire.

All you need to do is fill out the application form and I’ll get back to you shortly.

More non-profit and social media for social good resources from Mashable:

If you’re looking for additional resources to build your non-profit’s social media strategy, we’re here to help as well. Mashable has written a number of essential articles about promoting your organization using social tools. Here are a few we hope you find helpful:

- 5 Essential Tips for Promoting Your Charity Using Social Media

- Videos of Presentations from our Social Good Conference

- Inspiring Tales of Social Media for Social Good #Stories4Good

- 4 Ways Social Media is Changing the Non-Profit World

- How LIVESTRONG Uses Social Media for Good #FindingTheGood

- 26 Charities and Non-Profits on Twitter

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Tags: job board, jobs, social good

Mashable Holiday Party NYC 2009: 20 Tickets Left!

December 3, 2009 - 22:21

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Come join the Mashable crew including Adam Ostrow (Editor-in-Chief), Sharon Feder (Managing Editor), Adam Hirsch (COO), Tamar Weinberg (Community Manager), Matt Silverman (Associate Features Editor), Brenna Ehrlich (Editorial Assistant) and Brett Petersel (East Coast Director)… in addition to the New York tech and social media community for an intimate 150 person all-you-can-drink networking event at the Roger Smith Hotel (@rshotel).

Limited tickets are now on sale through Eventbrite or below. Note: the event was exclusively launched to Mashable’s Facebook fans first – follow us on Facebook for early event notifications.

This year, we are donating a portion of our proceeds to the Association to Benefit Children (ABC). So come enjoy a great collection of wine (thanks to Wine 2.0), Singha Beer, Red Eye Bloody Marys and some appetizers from the Roger Smith Hotel.

A big thanks to our sponsors: RealPlayer SP, Gamehouse, HauteLook and CEIVA.

Date: Thursday, December 17th, 2009

Time: 6:30 – 9:30 PM

Location: Roger Smith Hotel’s Penthouse Floor

501 Lexington Avenue between East 47th and East 48th Streets, NYC

Food: Appetizers will be served

Tickets: Only 20 Tickets at $65 through Eventbrite or below:

A Portion of the Proceeds Support

“Association to Benefit Children (ABC) is dedicated to bringing joy and warmth to disadvantaged children and their families through compassionate, sustainable, comprehensive and integrated services, designed to permanently break the cycles of abuse, neglect, sickness and homelessness. ABC’s humane and innovative programs today include early childhood education for infants, toddlers and preschoolers, educational advocacy, housing assistance, mental health services, family support and preservation, crisis intervention, therapeutic out-of-school and summer day camp programs, youth leadership development and mentoring.”

Thanks to our Sponsors

“With the new RealPlayer SP, you can share online videos with social web sites like Twitter and Facebook and easily transfer downloaded videos directly to your favorite phone, portable media player or iTunes Library. With the new RealPlayer converter feature, you have more control over your video to change its format, size or quality, making it easy to get video and audio content onto your devices. No need to wrestle with or remember file format and device settings options. For more information, go to www.realplayer.com.”

GameHouse is the trusted online resource for fun casual games, specializing in the delivery of high value entertainment to players around the world. With a growing focus on social gaming, GameHouse leverages an extensive library of original game titles like COLLAPSE! and Text Twist, along with powerful licenses like SCRABBLE® and UNO®, to reach and connect new players across the globe via popular social platforms like Facebook and iPhone.”

HauteLook is an online retailer that brings the thrill back to shopping through exclusive, limited time sale events. Through an edited selection of trusted, high quality brands, HauteLook members enjoy amazing access to premium fashion brands, boutique home labels, beauty and skincare products, and kids’ apparel and accessories at discounts of 50 to 75 percent off every day. In the last two years, over 600 high profile brands have chosen HauteLook to host more than 1,200 private sale events. Some of the most popular fashion brands offered on the site include BCBG, Elizabeth & James, Herve Leger, Joe’s Jeans and M Missoni.”

“Back in 2000 CEIVA® invented and marketed the first digital photo frames. Unlike any ordinary Digital Photo Frame, CEIVAs are connected. Utilizing their patented technology, the PicturePlan membership is a revolutionary way to share with friends, family and loved ones all the photos that enrich your life. Always at the forefront of industry breakthroughs, CEIVAs are able to receive photos from: e-mail, camera phones, photo-sites and social networking sites, e.g. Facebook. And in 2009, CEIVA introduced CEIVA Snap for iPhones, Geo-tagging and the worry-free PicturePlan® Lifetime Warranty. Learn more about CEIVA and their products at www.CEIVA.com.”

Thanks to our Partners

“As a pediatric occupational therapist for the last 10 years, Keri Wilmot has utilized a variety of toys and concepts to stimulate the development and educational growth of young children. ToyQueen.com was created to provide all parents, caregivers and educators with a comprehensive video and text resource to help identify toys and products that may enhance their child’s development. Alterative ways to play with a toy or product are also highlighted to allow parents to enhance their child’s developmental milestones in ways that are motivating, natural and playful.”

SMAC – the Social Media Advertising Consortium fosters collaboration throughout the entire social media ecosystem, diving deep into critical issues and staying ahead of this constantly evolving industry. By bringing together buy side, sell side, and research professionals to develop relevant standards, comprehensive research and definitive measurement tools, our goal is to grow revenues and increase engagement. SMAC members are groundbreakers. Entrepreneurs. Thought leaders. Together, we form a community that feeds off each other’s creativity, creating an environment for learning and discovery.”

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