This Week in Social Media

Sure is a busy time in social media and Internet circles this week in the greater Phoenix area! Here are a few cool conferences happening this week (see local cool guy Chuck Reynolds' more comprehensive list over at his site).

- Tuesday's AZIMA (Arizona Interactive Marketing Association) meeting is hosting life coach and author Pamela Slim to talk about Build Your Tribe: How to Use Social Networks to Learn, Grow and Expand Your Markets. Early registration is $35 for AZIMA members, $35 for students (with valid ID shown at check-in), & $45 for non-members. Add a tenner to those prices if you are a walk-in.

- Thursday's Arizona Entrepreneurship Conference (see last week's post). Speakers include Tara Hunt, founder of Horse:Pig:Cow and author of “The Whuffie Factor”, Michelle Robson, founder of EmpowHer.com, women’s health 2.0 site, Kevin Surace, Founder and CEO of Serious Materials, green building technologies, Howard Lindzon, co-founder, StockTwitS, Pam Slim (see above), author of “Escape from Cubicle Nation,” and Merlin Mann, founder of 43Folders.

- Saturday's (and Sunday's) Podcamp AZ (which I attended last year) is a two-day casual conference that has so many cool sessions and topics to choose from. It's free to attend and you can start voting on which sessions you'd like to attend. I'm going to lead a discussion on ghost tweeting and assorted other uh-oh/no-nos, so come on out and lend your vice to PodCampAZ.