Mashable's Events Board is a great place to find the leading conferences in your industry -- whether it's advertising, technology, media or public relations. This week, we're highlighting five events that we think can help move your career forward. Our picks include events in New York, San Diego and the Bay Area. If you don't find something that's right for you, check out more than 70 events featured on our complete listings.
Social Media Strategies Summit: Las Vegas 2013
Date: Feb. 4 to Feb. 6
Location: Las Vegas, Nev.
Global Strategic Management Institute (GSMI) is excited to bring you the latest social event, Social Media Strategies Summit (SMSS), now running for its third successful year in Las Vegas. Whether your organization is a start-up or a large enterprise, SMSS will provide you with relevant case study examples, interactive workshops and engaging sessions to boost your social media marketing efforts and reach your company's business goals.
Social Recruiting Strategies Conference: San Francisco 2014
Date: Jan. 28 to Jan. 30
Location: San Francisco, Calif.
HR Pros and recruiters need optimize their strategies by using custom apps, tweets, or vendors to make it easy for company fans, employees, and followers to refer jobs to their own friends and followers.
GSMI's Social Recruiting Strategies Conference 2014 - San Francisco- will offer best practices and lessons learned from industry leaders, recruiting gurus, leading brands and case studies of leading organizations.
Date: Nov. 6
Location: New York, N.Y.
THE SCIENCE BEHIND THE ART (BRINGING METHOD TO MADNESS)
If you think the pace of technology has accelerated beyond your control, you're right. No one person can handle all aspects of a digital brand in this day and age, which is why we'll be bringing the best and brightest across a whole host of disciplines to share their approach to collaboratively building the strongest brands possible.
Date: Nov. 21
Location: San Diego, Calif.
Attend PR News' Writing Boot Camp and get the how-to's from expert trainers in writing SEO-optimized and shareable press releases, crafting email pitches that stand a chance of getting opened by journalists, writing content for mobile devices and social media, applying storytelling concepts to your PR writing and much more.
Date: Nov. 6 to Nov. 7
Location: New York, N.Y.
ad:tech New York is the leading digital media event for 9,000+ marketing and technology professionals from all over the world -a marketplace for buying and selling, a community for networking, a forum for exchanging ideas and an opportunity for contributing to industry trends and initiatives.
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