Los Angeles rocked out at the third stop on Mashable's U.S. Summer Tour! Over 500 people joined us for a great evening of conversation and networking at the Rubicon Project Headquarters, where Rubicon was gracious enough to open their courtyard for our use and show off the office from TV's '24' in their building. The Rubicon Project staff was amazing at helping us get ready and Party Charlie supplied great food and an open bar for the event.
After the Mashable event was over, the party continued with the Girl Gamer/Schwaggin Wagon after party, complete with the EcoLimo, which shuttled attendees back and forth. Thanks to everyone who donated schwag to the Schwaggin Wagon and Operation Gratitude. Your schwag is going to a good cause.
Of course, we couldn't have done SummerMash LA without the support of our local sponsors, speakTECH, eHow, and This Next. Our Tour Sponsors, Sun Startup Essentials, Yoono and MySites, rock and we can't wait to meet up with them again in Austin. Major kudos to Stickam, for live streaming the event. And it was great to have our friends from Social Radi.us and Rohit Bhargava, author of 'Personality Not Included' join us too.
Thanks again to everyone for coming out and joining us. The Mashable team had a great time. From the looks of the pictures that were taken (see our Flickr set), it looks like you did too! Feel like tagging it up? Check out the pics on the Los Angeles SummerMash Event page. Huge thanks to our local photographer, Wm. Marc Salsberry.
We're also on tour with SocialMediaCamp sponsored by Yoono and organized by Erica O'Grady. Stickam had the chance at SummerMash Seattle to sit down with Erica O'Grady, the multi-talented Social Media expert:
You can check out this and all the other interviews from our SummerMash stops on upcoming [img src="http://sale-online.click/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/feed-icon-14x14.png" caption="" credit="" alt="feed-icon-14×14.png"] Mashable Conversations episodes.
Check out the other cities on the U.S. Summer Tour:
Austin | Miami | Boston | New York City
Hosting Sponsor:
'The Rubicon Project is an advertising technology company currently focused on ad network optimization. Websites looking to make more money while doing less work should visit'
Thanks to Rubicon Project for hosting and thanks to Party Charlie for the catering help!
Sponsors:
'speakTECH provides User Experience and technical consulting for some of the top social networking companies in the world.'
'ThisNext is a social shopping network where people help each other discover products. From locating items to writing about them, our community brings attention to the hottest, most unique products available on the Internet.'
'eHow.com is a leading online resource and community with the mission to offer real world solutions for everyday questions.'
Prize Sponsor:
'The SXSW Interactive Festival features five days of exciting panel content and amazing parties. Attracting digital creatives as well as visionary technology entrepreneurs, the event celebrates the best minds and the brightest personalities of emerging technology.'
'Connect to your passion for wine, food and travel online and offline with Women & Wine. Shop Wine Valet at Two Rodeo Drive.'
Special Book Signing:
'Personality Not Included: Get the ultimate guide to marketing with authenticity from Rohit Bhargava...featuring a forward by Guy Kawasaki.'
Local Media Partner:
'Girls in Tech is an organization which caters to intelligent, professional, and influential young women working in the technology industry. The organization is a membership driven group, which aims to provide tools and information to empower, encourage innovation,inspiration and involvement among its members, while seeking to collaborate with like-minded men in the industry.'
'The Schwaggin' Wagon is a philanthropic project that raises awareness about the wastefulness of the Schwag industry, while donating excess Schwag to charity and having a damn good time in the process!'
"Bernardo's List is an email newsletter about upcoming events for entrepreneurs, investors and tech execs in New York and other cities nationwide. Signup is free at http://www.bernardoslist.com!"
'Social Radius is an award-winning social media marketing firm, specializing in SEO/SMO, thought leadership platforms/social media creation, viral/syndication, outreach and strategy.'
Tour Sponsors
The Sun(TM) Startup Essentials program is designed to help startup businesses off the ground by providing access to industry-leading systems at deep discounts, free world-class software and web-based training, discounts on partner hosting services, and more.
Yoono’s mission is to make the social web accessible, easy and fun for everyone. Its newly expanded service socializes your browser, helps you manage your digital life and brings the best of the web into one single browser-based application. Today, 1.3 million users are leveraging Yoono.
Yoono is hosting Social Media Camp at each tour stop which brings together the top local names in Blogging, Podcasting, Live Streaming, and New Media to participate in an open workshop about the power of social media.
MySites is a single place for all your online needs. You can create and customize a website, save and share any media, decide who can view it, embed anywhere, and use any device.
Touring Video Partner
Launched in February 2006, Stickam emerged as the first and largest Web site dedicated to live interactive video streaming. Stickam's cutting edge technology delivers millions of streams each day, reaching over two million registered users. They are continuing on the path of social interactive TV by adding features that nurture its growing community and tech-savvy broadcasters. Whether you are famous for 15 or 150,000, Stickam.com is where you will find your friends and fans. See and be seen at Stickam.com, The Live Community.
Exclusive Ticketing Partner
"Eventbrite is the world's largest self-service online ticketing site. Eventbrite makes it easy for anyone to sell-out an event."
Online Community Partner
'EventVue helps conference attendees meet the people that matter to them before they even arrive at an event.'
Tour Media Partner
