Social Media Week

Toby Daniels, Founder and Executive Director of Social Media Week, discusses the 4th iteration of the global conference which will take place February 7-11, 2011.

Social Media Week (SMW) is a global platform that connects people, content, and conversation around emerging trends in social and mobile media.

Delivered primarily through a network of internationally hosted biannual conferences and online through social and mobile media, Social Media Week brings hundreds of thousands of people together every year through learning experiences that aim to advance our understanding of social media’s role in society.

Social Media Week was held for the first time in February 2009 in New York City, and was launched as a “distributed conference,” with events taking place in locations throughout the city with organizations such as the New York Times, Wired, Razorfish and Nielsen. Over 2,500 people attended over forty individual events, and thousands more participated online.

In February 2010, we expanded SMW from one to six cities, reconvening in New York while adding London, Berlin, San Francisco, Toronto and São Paulo.  The multi-city evolution of Social Media Week attracted more than 7,500 attendees across 200 events, nearly all of which were made available for free to attendees thanks to sponsorship from a number of global brands, including Meebo, Motorola, Vodafone and PepsiCo. View past speakers.

In September 2010, we made the conference biannual, adding Los Angeles, Milan, Bogotá, Mexico City, and Buenos Aires.  In February 2011, the conference will revisit London, Paris, New York, San Francisco, Toronto, São Paolo and will also expand to Paris, Rome and Hong Kong.

Check out a video announcement from Social Media Week’s founder and Executive Director, Toby Daniels.

RECOMMENDED EVENT:
Social Media and Retail. Feb 07, 2011 11:00 AM - Feb 07, 2011 12:00 PM
Location: Seesmic, 1550 Bryant, San Francisco, CA - Floor 11

Panelists include:

Modcloth

    

 Moderated by:

Snacks provided by:  

More events

  • Enterprise Microblogging in Action BlogTronix Offices February 7, 2011 10:00 AM Registration
  • Community Management / Social Business Seesmic PentHouse February 7, 2011 12:00 PM Registration
  • Monetizing Social Media Content February 7, 2011 2:30 PM Registration
  • Snackers Lounge Library Bar February 7, 2011 5:00 PM Registration
  • Collective Intelligence PeopleBrowsr February 7, 2011 6:00 PM Registration

Open Calls. San Francisco



  • Open Casting Call In San Francisco For Contagion. The feature film CONTAGION is coming to San Francisco and the Bay Area! Directed by Steve Soderbergh starring Matt Damon,Kate Winslet and Jude Law, CONTAGION is an action-thriller about an international team of doctors hired by the CDC to prevent the global outbreak of a deadly virus. KEEP READING…

  • Open Call: Experienced Sample Sewers for Chaiken & Capone. Chaiken & Capone is looking for a sample room or experienced sample sewers that can sew silk chiffon and silk charmeuse for few next weeks. Please call  415.777.1895 x 16 or call Heather at 415.786.9412. KEEP READING…

  • Open Call Female Model (Runway) for PROJECT SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 17, 2011. San Francisco venue. PROJECT SAN FRANCISCO is an annual runway event that serves as a platform for recent graduates and alumni from fashion schools and universities. This event will showcase their collection as recent graduates embarking in their prospective career in the fashion industry. This year’s event is also a benefit for Dress For Success & San Francisco Fashion And Merchants Alliance. Presented by: Eventbrite. Fashion Production by: SFFAMA. APPLY HERE. BUY TICKETS @ EVENTBRITE. 


  • Promotional Model Needed. GMR is helping to launch a liquor promotion at various bars and nightclubs in the Berkley/San Fran area! We are looking for 10-12 outgoing and energetic Brand Ambassadors to help us get this party started in your area! KEEP READING…

  • Open Call Male Model for ALLEY COLLECTION. No experience necessary. Audition required. Requirement: Height - 5’8” and over. Must be able to walk the runway. Event date: March 12, 2011. Location: SF Design Center. KEEP READING…

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Sourcing at Magic 2011, Las Vegas, NV




Sourcing at Magic 2011 will cover the complete spectrum of fashion including apparel, footwear and accessories. The event has been organized by Advanstar Communications, Inc. at Las Vegas Convention Centre in United States of America. This fair is a complete showcase of items ranging from the raw fiber to the fully designed products. It will act as a one stop solution stop for all the fashion conscious people as well as designer, manufacturers and boutique owners. All the major industry experts participate at this event giving it a professional look and feel. Sourcing at Magic 2011 will start from 13th February 2011 and will last for four days. Over 700 exhibitors from around the globe are expected to participate at the event.

Highlights of the Event:

* The event will act as a connective link for over 700 exhibitors from around the world
* Fashion experts and decision makers will be present at the event
* Direct access to the largest base of buying power in United States of America
* SOURCING at MAGIC Matchmaking Service will be provided at the event
* Educational seminar related with the industry will take place.

Chrystine Druge & Krisztina Lazar To Compete In FASHION FEUD Round Two, 02/08/2011, San Francisco


Chrystine Druge was a hobby sewer until 2006 when an event called swap-o-ramma literally changed her life. It was there that the light bulb in her head went off and it hasnt burned out since. She started SewBitchy that same year. Her slogan being “Clothing with attitude, for women who have one.” Her designs are full of attitude from the cute, ruffly and lacey to sleek and sophistacted with touches of vintage flair.  She takes an ecco consious approach as well by using 80-90% recyled materials in all her projects. You can find her work online at www.sewbitchy.com. She also maintains a blog at www.salvagedstitch.com

Krisztina Lazar is an artist and designer of many facets.  She utilizes her rich Hungarian cultural background, her knowledge of art and fashion history, esoteric and philosophical paths, and experiences amongst global cultural traditions to create a variety of wearable art ensembles that are individually created. Each piece is unique, inspired by the raw materials of the garment where versatility, comfort and play are a large part of the designs themselves encouraging the wearer to create their own individual styles.  Her clothing design is inextricably linked with her art practice and there is much interplay between her paintings, performances, videos, installations and the garments that are created for or inspired by these many medias.  Originally from Cleveland, OH, she uses her experiences from growing up, travel and daily life to fuel her continuing creative inquiry in everything she does.Check out her work at http://transcendentbird.com/

 

Got Style? Check Out: STYLE INNOVATORS 2010 List

’San Francisco’s Style Innovators’ is SFFAMA’s annual ‘IT’ list. Each year, SFFAMA compiles their own list of who mattered in the local arts and fashion industry. The ‘STYLE INNOVATORS’ list is published every New Year’s day of each year. Categories change each year based on what SFFAMA deems relevant, innovative and fresh.

FASHION FEUD Round 2 Featuring Caitlyn Randrup & Nicole Casperson

Caitlyn Randrup is currently working towards her BFA in Visual Merchandizing at Academy of Arts San Francisco.  She is also studying  Italian, which prompted her recent trip to Italy.  She professes  that she is passionate about fashion and loves Vivienne Westwood, Yves Saint Laurent, Dolce & Gabbana and Michael Kors.  An eccentric with alluring tomboyish looks, Caitlyn stands out on the runway.  She has done runway work for SFFAMA at Pret-A-Porter SF, San Francisco Fashion Awards and San Francisco Fashion Week.  

Nicole Casperson relocated from the east coast from a small town in Pennsylvania. She always had a passion for modeling and started working at age of 14 in Philadelphia getting trained by Darryl Washington and getting involved with modeling, and his organization Dream Believe Know it Productions. These events encouraged Nicole to move on to New York City and she started getting work there doing Brooklyn Fashion Weekend, Edwin D'Angelo shows, and IMTA. Then just last year moving into the Bay Area she has started working in San Francisco. Nicole wasted no time trying to get involved she already walked in San Francisco Fashion Awards, Seezenn Show and  Snow Fashion Show.

Learn About Fair Trade With Global Action Through Fashion, San Francisco

Join Global Action Through Fashion this Monday at the Hub SoMa to learn about Fair Trade! 

When: This Monday, January 31st at 6:30 pm
Where: The Hub SoMa in the Chronicle Building at 901 Mission Street, San Francisco 

Join Global Action Through Fashion this Monday at the Hub SoMa to learn about Fair Trade! The evening will feature a wonderful panel of leaders in the field including Jeff Denby of PACT Underwear, Tierra Del Forte of Fair Trade USA, and Matt Reynolds and Scott Leopold of Indigenous Designs. 

Whether you are a fashion designer/producer, a student, or simply a fashion consumer this talk will be an eye opener. Speakers will define Fair Trade and discuss starting a Fair Trade fashion company, the challenges associated with a Fair Trade supply chain, Fair Trade scalability and more.

This event is free but space is very limited, so you must RSVP here. A $10 donation to Global Action Through Fashion, a nonprofit organization, is suggested at the door. Read more about Global Action Through Fashion at www.globalactionthroughfashion.org. We hope to see you there! Please read more about our speakers below.

Jeff Denby/ PACT UNDERWER. Jeff is Chief Creative Officer & Co-founder of PACT, an apparel company launched in 2009 offering design-driven, sustainably manufactured, premium underwear connected to powerful social and environmental causes. PACT creates partnerships with nonprofits and leading artists to create prints tied to a cause. With each underwear purchase, PACT donates 10 percent of the proceeds to support these organizations’ work. PACT underwear is made of responsibly grown and manufactured organic cotton, transported in zero-waste packaging and delivered with a minimized carbon footprint, demonstrating the company’s ongoing commitment to style, sustainability and social consciousness. PACT’s motto is CHANGE STARTS WITH YOUR UNDERWEAR!

Tierra Del Forte/  FAIR TRADE USA (formerly TransFair), a nonprofit organization, is the leading third-party certifier of Fair Trade products in the United States and is one of twenty members of Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International (FLO). TransFair USA audits and certifies transactions between U.S. companies and their international suppliers to guarantee that the farmers and workers producing Fair Trade Certified goods were paid fair prices and wages. TransFair USA has developed a ground-breaking, new pilot program to certify apparel for the first time in the USA, which is what Tierra works on.

Matt Reynolds & Scott Leonard. INDIGENOUS DESIGNS. Leaders in the Fair Trade fashion industry, Matt and Scott have been working with producers in Peru for 16 years to produce their stunning line of men’s and women’s apparel, Indigenous Designs. Providing an example for best practices in the industry and enriching the path for eco-fashion and sustainability trends, Indigenous Designs is committed to:
- Supporting and preserving Fair Trade wages and artisan cooperative
- Investing in natural and organic fibers and environmentally-friendly dyes
- Spreading the beauty of handmade, eco fashion

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Laura Robblee and Adelle McElveen Will Judge FASHION FEUD Round 2

Laura Robblee is a marketing professional, entrepreneur and executive coach with over eight years of experience across several industries.  She has background experience in retail, communications, advertising, public relations, psychology and sales.  Laura is the president of Patnaude Group and the principal at Dynamic Consulting Group.  She is the half of the husband and wife design team and owner of Alley Collection, a men’s clothing line in San Francisco. 

Adelle McElveen is the editor of Fashionista Lab,  an online style, shopping and fashion blog. She also volunteers for St. Vincent de Paul Society as the Social Media Strategist for Discarded to Divine, an annual fashion show benefit.  She works full-time at Facebook as a security and spam specialist.

Fashion Career Advice: Introducing StyleSalt.com Boutique Editor

As a new writer for the SFFAMA , I am so happy to be collaborating with such a fantastic organization. Like the Alliance, I too have spent a large portion of my career helping and educating emerging and independent designers. Working as a fashion editor for magazines like Shape, Natural Health and Fit Pregnancy, I would meet new designers on a daily basis and was able to witness what made the difference in who succeeded and who didn’t, and the reasons aren’t always obvious. It didn’t matter who the designer was, or how far they were in their career, their passion for their designs was palpable. This should come as no surprise to any artist, if the passion’s not there, there’s no reason for the endless hours that can consume you as a budding fashion entrepreneur. But you need to know the steps that will take fashion design from hobby to successful career, and I want to help you get there.

In my current position at StyleSalt.com, I am able to work one on one with independent designers in our Boutique section, http://www.stylesalt.com/boutique. Our goal is to make apparel and accessory design a more accessible career for new talent, give designers a free place to sell their creations, free promotion, and an instant audience.

In my role here with this blog, I will be passing on my tips in a variety of areas for helping you to succeed as a fashion designer, and answering any questions you might have. If you prefer to reach me directly, or want to become involved in StyleSalt’s boutique for emerging and independent designers, you can contact me at misty@stylesalt.com. I look forward to hearing from you!

SFFashionTV @ FASHION FEUD SF 2011, Round One. Scion Presents ‘FASHION FEUD” 2011. ROUND 2 COMPETITION. In Collaboration with San Francisco Fashion And Merchants Alliance. FASHION FEUD is a live “Project Runway” like fashion design competition live on stage.

Designers are given an hour to create a design to prepare for a runway show on stage. Then, a walk-off between fashion models donning each designers’ pieces to highlight the night with the audience’s cheers supporting their favorite designer of the …evening. This event is sponsored by “SCION” in collaboration with San Francisco Fashion And Merchants Alliance. Featuring San Francisco’s up and coming local designers.

CHECK OUT: FASHION FEUD, Scionify & SFFASHIONTV

FASHION FEUD Round Two 02/08/2011

Scion Presents ’FASHION FEUD“ 2011. ROUND 2 COMPETITION. In Collaboration with San Francisco Fashion And Merchants Alliance. FASHION FEUD is a live "Project Runway” like fashion design competition live on stage.

Designers are given an hour to create a design to prepare for a runway show on stage. Then, a walk-off between fashion models donning each designers’ pieces to highlight the night with the audience’s cheers supporting their favorite designer of the …evening. This event is sponsored by “SCION” in collaboration with San Francisco Fashion And Merchants Alliance. Featuring San Francisco’s up and coming local designers. FREE ADMISSION. 18+ Event.

Seen @ FASHION MASH-UP: Ecopreneurs and Social Media Workshop 01/20/2011


Find more photos like this on SFFAMA: Fashion For The People>. Photos By: Nichole Albright and Gabriel Dominic Carlos

About ’FASHION MASH-UP’ (previously called The Economics Of Art’). Our mission is to provide an open dialogue to engage in a forum which discusses the idea of the economics of art. This series is focused on how to develop innovative solutions that address the impact of our nation’s current economic climate on creative industries.  As a thriving epicenter of independent talents, ‘FASHION MASH-UP“ (previously called The Economics Of Art) feature local artists, fashion designers, bloggers, retailers and tech savvies in an effort to brainstorm and share new business solutions and to create an exchange network amongst peers in San Francisco’s fashion and art community.

THANK YOU To Our Fashion Mash-Up/ Ecopreneur Speakers 01/20/2011

THANK YOU To Our Fashion Mash-Up/ Ecopreneurs Speakers 01/20/2011. (L-R) Steffany Boldroni @ Ecobold, Ciara Peter @ Animal Friendly Shopping, Jules Lauren Vasic @ The Green Stylist, J. David Watson @ iZigg, and Dominica Peterson @ Global Action Through Fashion. Photo by: Nichole Albright. And, THANK YOU to our sponsors: Pigment Cosmetics, Pretzel Crisps and Terry Hines & Associates.

Ecopreneurs : Blogging About Eco Products & Social Media Workshop

Ecopreneurs : Blogging About Eco Products & Social Media Workshop

Blogging About Green and Eco Products.

FEATURING

CIARA PETER, Animal Friendly Shopping @ http://animalfriendly.me
DOMENICA PETERSON, Global Action Through Fashion @ http://www.globalactionthroughfashion.org
JULES LAUREN VASIC, The Green Stylist @ http://www.thegreenstylist.com/
STEFFANY BOLDRINI, Eco Bold @ http://ecobold.com/


DISCUSSION

What is the idea behind your product or your blog (site)?
Why are eco-products (green/ sustainable) relevant to market/sell or write about?
How do you apply technology in marketing your green product? What do you utilize in using social media? (Open Apps: Twitter, etc’s, Mobile Tech and Apps)
Who is your target market? Who are your followers? Who are your clients?
How do you buy green? What should the public be aware of in buying green products?
What do you think about the local green movement? Where can the public find more about other green services or events that showcases the green movement?
How do you educate the public about your green product?
Do you consider yourself as a green activist, how has it changed your life?
What type of impact do you think are you contributing by being eco-conscious.

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