Trendy Lime has done it again with their own interpretation of Valentine’s Day.  This year, join them for an exclusive Gods and Goddesses Ball complete with everything the higher deities of the social networking scene deserve: cocktail reception, incredible DJ hosted music set, an interactive entertainment program and endless networking and socializing.

Set at the sultry Harlot Club, a venue for San Francisco’ elite, this will prove to be an evening of social networking at its finest. The Harlot club sports a high-ceiling lounge furnished with eclectic pieces that range from the Gothic to the eye catching.   The God and Goddess Ball is sure to be a night to remember as we invite our attendees to rejoice in the spirit of dance, socialization and networking.  Aphrodite will be envious as you mingle with some of the hottest social professionals and trend-setters.  Gamble with Loki as you navigate the social scene with like minded individuals who are interested in technology, travel, photography, fashion and media.  Make Bacchus wish he was there as you dance the night away to one of the area’s hottest DJ lineups.

There will also be a FASHION INSTALLATION by PinkWeave, high-end online shopping portal featuring emerging upscale designs from around the world. There will be Gods and Goddesses come alive intertwining the magic of fashion in its most artistic form and lifting your senses to a sublime beauty where you would like to dwell forever.

A photo-show, “URBAN GODS & GODDESSES” by Italian blogger and social media guru Luca Sartoni, will be featured with some of the Silicon Valley tech celebrities being featured in the show.

Come dance the night away to the tunes of DJ Nader. Dress as your favorite god or goddess and mingle with other tech-savvy, fashion-centric professionals.  Unleash your inner deity and dress in theme: toga, fantasy, mythology all provides inspiration for costuming.  Once again Trendy Lime will set the bar for high society networking at this celestial event.

Admission: $10 Early Bird / $20 Regular Price, tickets at http://gngsf.eventbrite.com

Trendy Lime is the world’s trendiest network and events production house, setting the standard for classy exclusive events in the hottest of venues in San Francisco, LA and Sao Paulo.  Our international social network comprises 4,000 members – over half of which have a masters or doctorate degree.  Most of our members enjoy professional careers in Finance, Law, Media, High Tech, Marketing or Fashion and 4 out of 10 of them speak 3 or more languages. Every fifth member of Trendy Lime holds a C-level position.

Sponsors include: MaryKay, Bloomingdales, Samsonite, RedBull, jetBlue Airways, intel and HP

We previously posted about the nifty little Hello Bar and now we have more invites for you to try their new Pro version!

If you need a refresher, The Hello Bar is a fun, unobtrusive yet highly visible bar that sits at the top of your website and is a great way to engage users and get them to take immediate action. The tool has an impressive roster of users such as Seth Godin, Gary Vaynerchuk and Tim Ferris.

The new Pro features include:

- A/B Testing (message, link, colors, and more)
- Advanced stats (all date ranges, A/B results)
- Dynamic Hello Bars (from RSS feeds)
- No Branding or link to Hello Bar
- Up to 10 Hello Bars (You get 3 with the free version)
- Always-on-top feature to keep the Hello Bar on top when scrolling

We have 25 invites for our readers! Use the code “bubblicious” when signing up and you’ll get direct access to the app.

They’re offering a 14 day free trial of Pro to all users. No credit card is required to try it out.

Social Media Marketing & Monitoring is returning to San Francisco on May 23rd – and they’re offering a discount to Bubblicious readers.

Social Media Marketing & Monitoring 2011 will bring together leading marketing experts, brands, agencies and journalists for an intensive one-day conference. Register here and use the code “BUB10” to get 10% off!

Using Social Gaming Mechanics for Marketing
Rajat Paharia – Bunchball

Gamification can be a critical connection between websites and social media. Game mechanics can provide organic, compelling reasons for users to post, Tweet and connect with their networks to achieve rewards and improve their standing. In this session Rajat Paharia will discuss real-world examples of how sites like USA Network and Bravo TV successfully extended their reach to social networks, and how to best integrate social networks in to a gamification strategy.

The 5 Golden Rules of Location Marketing
Aaron Strout – WCG

While geolocation marketing is a shiny new object for many of us, there are businesses that are not only testing these services but deriving actual benefit from services like foursquare, Facebook Places, Gowalla and Scavenger. During this interactive 30 minute session, co-author of Location Based Marketing for Dummies, Aaron Strout, will give his five golden rules of location marketing and share 3-4 case studies of how businesses are generating ROI from their geolocation programs.

The Customer Perspective: The Six Elements of Engagement
John Zell – Razorfish

With the rise of social media, how do marketers make sense not only of divergent touch points with customers, but the disparate reasons why customers gravitate to them? How does this affect the continuing evolution of how consumers choose to engage with a brand? In this fascinating introduction to the day, John will reveal the surprising findings of Razorfish’s recent customer engagement report, including the Six Elements of Engagement.

How to Maximize Engagement from Facebook Ads
Chase McMichael – Infinigraph

Facebook sold $1.86 billion in ads in 2010, about 60% or $1.12 billion of which was self-serve, meaning advertisers bought directly using Facebook’s targeting tools. Using crowdsourced social Intelligence can help improve CTR, reduce the cost-per-Like and increase consumer conversation. In this presentation Chase will show 5 key areas on how to maximize your Facebook engagement and share results on how Golden Spoon have achieved ongoing social success with their customers.

Social Media Marketing for Small Business
Elyse Tager – Constant Contact

According to Constant Contact’s most recent Small Business Attitudes & Outlooks Survey, small businesses plan to dedicate more dollars to social media marketing activities in 2011. It also predicts increased use of social media tools, which are characterized as additive and complementary to other marketing activities – not a replacement. Small organizations don’t have the luxury of full-time dedicated marketing staff, but that is not stopping them. In this session, Elyse will share tips and insights on how small businesses can effectively execute and monitor social media marketing campaigns.

Since our last beta invite post was such a hit, we decided to bring you another new site to check out! ScoreBig is the latest way to score (pun intended) below-retail tickets to an upcoming event or concert in your area.

The site currently has more than 500,000 events from this weekend to this summer and seats from the best in the house to the most affordable, so it’s not just last-minute seats that no one wants.

Some of the perks of the members-only site include:

• Every ticket  is below retail price
• No fees or delivery charges
• Members decide how much they pay (a la Priceline)

Although there’s currently a wait to get in and try ScoreBig, we have 50 invites for Bub.blicio.us readers! Click here to sign up.

By Julie Blaustein

Back by popular demand! JETLAG, the social club that brings together designer fashion and travel, will be taking off again November 18th. from 9pm to 2am at Clift’s famous Redwood Room, a cherished San Francisco landmark, suffused with glamour, red-wood and Starck’s designer furniture. Trendsetters and world-travelers are invited to the night of Show, Socializing, Good Cause (Carbon Offsetting), and chic denim fashion by G-Star Raw. Dress Code: Tres Chic–Red and Gold. This ultra cool event is invitation only and admission is limited to the first 350 RSVP’s.

Go to Eventbrite and use the password RED for your tickets!

DJ Nadar and Playdoughboy, and DJ Huggie will be spinning the music, Nkechi Live! will cater for an unforgettable soul performance, and chic denim fashion will be provided by G-Star Raw. Sponsors include Arc, Bay Club and RedBull along with Media Partners SFAMA (San Francisco Fashion and Merchandise Alliance), Laura Loves Art, Eclectic a la Mode, 360 Fashion Network, Moda Epidemic and me, Julie Blaustein Photography.

Have you joined JETLAG yet? If not, what are you waiting for? JETLAG is the upscale social events for Trend-Setters, Entrepreneurs and Businesses. Once you join, you will receive invite-only to fun, exclusive events. Join Now!

Trendy Lime is a producer of upscale social and networking events and a social network comprised of “global socialites.” They are setting the standard in classy, exclusive events for Trend-Setters, Entrepreneurs, and Ambitious Professionals in prime venues of San Francisco.

By Julie Blaustein

Have you ever just completed writing a blog post that you are wicked excited to share with the blogosphere, only to hit “publish” and upon reviewing it, discover that it’s a disaster? You find spelling and grammatical errors, and it just doesn’t flow. No doubt you have had that experience at some point in your blogging life.

I am excited to introduce you to The Universal Desk, a copy desk for the rest of the internet — all those bloggers out there who are working on their craft one blog post at a time. Every professional news writer has a hidden team of editors and copy editors that make them shine. The Universal Desk is staffed by copy editors who have worked for Random House, the International Herald Tribune and CNET, among others. They offer fast, professional editing for marketers, companies and students.

The idea for the site grew out of Ryan Singel’s experiences as a writer for Wired.com, where he had a front-row seat to the online publishing revolution. As a professional writer, he’s saved on a weekly, if not daily basis, by having editors tweak and improve his words, including catching embarrassing factual errors and unclear sentences.

Blogging software has put a printing press in the hands of anyone who wants one, democratizing the world of publishing — up to a point. The Universal Desk is meant to bring the power of a newspaper’s copy desk to anyone on the internet, whether they are a blogger, a marketer or a company. Copy editing is not just for professional news writers any more. They also handle heavier editing — such as in-depth tweaks and re-workings of marketing campaigns, press releases or websites. Their slogan is, “Everyone Needs an Editor.”

Check this out! The Universal Desk is offering 30 Bub.blicio.us readers a 1,000 words of copy editing and light editing free for a limited time until October 31st. for small start-ups and freelancers. All you have to do is contact Ryan at ryan@theuniversaldesk.com and say you saw this offer here. You will be provided credit in an account tied to your e-mail address, and you have three months to redeem it. Other businesses can try Universal Desk free for up to 500 words, for a limited time.

With the successful sales of Putting the Public Back in Public Relations, Brian Solis is at it again!

Brian will be visiting Atlanta for a brief 24 hours on February 23, 2010 and will be bringing his marketing expertise with him!

Since his newest book Engage does not hit the shelves until March 15, 2010, he will be offering a special treat to those who visit him in Atlanta on February 23, 2010.

For a limited time, you can purchase Engage and pick it up in person by purchasing a ticket at the EventBrite page and joining him at 7 p.m. EST at the 5 Seasons Brewing Westside in the upstairs Sky Bar.

There, you can pick up your book, have it signed by Brian himself and enjoy a great night of fun filled laughter and entertainment.

These copies will be coming straight from the printers and will be the first available printed set. Engage will not be available for purchase at the event. So to ensure that you get a copy of the book, you must pre-purchase your ticket by Monday, February 15!

Where: 5 Seasons Brewing Westside – upstairs Sky Bar
Time: 7 p.m. EST.
Ticket: EventBrite
Hashtag: #engageATL
Can’t make it to Atlanta? Pre-order Engage from Amazon now!

StuffBuff launched its private beta last month, marking the onset of what the company hopes to be a new era in live auctions. Readily comparing itself directly to eBay and Craigslist, StuffBuff takes a more social approach to direct sales. The result is a series of products that bring live auction features to the web, and social networking integration options to help you carry your auctions with you across your online presence.

Seeing as the holiday season is now in full swing, we’ve had time to see that online shopping has increased from last year. Many are taking note of initiatives from the likes of eBay towards increasing holiday shopping sales, and the necessity for consumers to stick to their budget has a lot of people flocking to sites like eBay and Craigslist where they can find products at cheaper rates than full retail value.

The other factor to consider in online shopping this holiday season in particular is the level of interest in social media marketing. After dabbling in virtual goods markets last year, several retailers have re-launched similar efforts yet again. And the increased support virtual goods along with the growing level of acceptance consumers are demonstrating for virtual goods and other forms of social media marketing (which could include something along the lines of a Facebook app or a Twitter-run promo) gives retailers even more leeway than they witnessed in previous years.

All of these factors give StuffBuff ample ammo for launching its own auction service, which combines several aspects of direct market exchanges, social media integration and auctions. The ability to scan and catalog items based on their bar codes leverages technology towards the ease-of-use on the consumer end. Embeddable auctions for items you’re selling makes the auctions themselves portable and increases their visibility as you post them on various websites and social networking profiles. Multiple formats for auctions lends a sense of entertainment and convenience for participants, and easy payment options encourages sales.

The hope, of course, is that StuffBuff can gain traction and prove that its tactics are the most sensible for the way in which we currently utilize online outlets for consumer activity. The series of StuffBuff products so far supports that hope, as it considers convenience factors, time availability and current technological and social media trends. Adding an air of common sense towards the ability for an individual to empower their selling ability while still saving time and money is a major feat that StuffBuff is ready and willing to undertake.

As more of us cling to our budgets and seek better ways in which to leverage our social networks for the purpose of finding recommendations and products, StuffBuff actually wants to push new trends along and change the way in which we buy and sell products. Finding yet another way in which to monetize social media interaction could be largely beneficial for StuffBuff as well, as many other auction and classifieds services that operate as social networking applications still remain too limited to be effective.

Time will tell us if StuffBuff can pull it off. The concept is an interesting one, and the dedication to utilizing new trends and capabilities for making the use of its service easier puts StuffBuff in a good position moving forward. Feel free to try StuffBuff out for yourself. Click here and use BUB09 as the invite code upon registration.