A little something about two charity events on my radar this week: SM4SC’s drive to feed the hungry in New York City for #sm4scnyc and MomItForward for #GNO. Enjoy.

Update: The podcast was a blast. Thanks to Joe, Flint, Carla and Matthew for participating and sharing your knowledge of music from all levels and a variety of aspects of the industry. Panelists, please feel free to grab the embed for your blog or profile – just link back here:

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Updated to add slides and audio from this morning (Thanks to DimDim and Kevin for the Live Cast!):

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From Perkett PR’s Christine Major:

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Special thank you to our partial event sponsor, Custom Scoop, publisher of Media Bulls Eye Magazine. Thanks to their generosity and the generosity of Rick Korn from Rick’s Pond View we are [...]

This post is about women in technology, in honor of Ada Lovelace Day. In case you don’t know who that is, or why we want to honor her memory:

Ada Lovelace was one of the world’s first computer programmers, and one of the first people to see computers as more than just a machine for doing [...]

Today as I read through the top tech stories listed on Techmeme, I stumbled on a little nugget: an Adobe AIR social aggregator I hadn’t gotten my paws on yet! Called Skimmer, the AIR application aggregates users’ social streams from Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Bebo and Flickr into a a single continuous flow. And aside from [...]

We took a bit of a break on Topics on Fire in February for some writing deadlines and new clients, but we are back and in full swing. Next week’s episode is on Music and Social Media. I have some very interesting guests coming on, including managers of musicians signed under major labels, music writers, [...]

You may remember Social Media for Social Change from its debut last year in Boston – a debut Uptown Uncorked was proud to be a small part of. With its first event at the Harvard Club to benefit Jane Doe under its belt, where would Gradon Tripp and SM4SC go next? Why, New York City, [...]

The iPhone’s next update, 3.0, was just unveiled yesterday.  For all of you that don’t own iPhones (which includes me), you might very well be wondering how I can connect the progress of a single phone to the advancement of mobile social networking as a whole.  I’m going to explain, so try to keep up.
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An update for everyone on the state of the SMB NH # 2: It won’t be in Portsmouth on 3/20. The road blocks to getting this going in Portsmouth were astronomical, and in the end I decided to stick with one of the two more welcoming cities I’ve been working with: Manchester and Kingston. To [...]

My quick recap of the week in conferences and events, plus a planned pre-show tweetup for Sunday’s Pete Yorn show. My apologies to the fantastic speakers like Mike Langford, Chris Penn and others who I loved hearing from and forgot to mention!

Updated to add the video from this Social Media Jungle Boston, March 2009: