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Last Friday, Social Media Week in San Francisco reached its conclusion with a packed house at 111 Minna Gallery for the closing party hosted by Social Media Club, Mashable and Microsoft’s search engine, Bing.

As part of your ticket purchase, guests were treated with two drinks and plenty of mingling and networking they could handle. But showing that we’re more than tech geeks, the closing party was also a fundraiser to help benefit the work done by Internet solution company NetSquared towards helping educate non-profit companies on how to use social media technologies.

Here are some photos from the closing party:

Biz360′s Maria Ogneva & Ryan Kuder

Violet Blue, Ben Metcalfe & Cathy Brooks

A representative from NetSquared tells the crowd about their efforts helping non-profits.

The crowd at 111 Minna celebrating Social Media Week

Claire Chang, Rachel Polish & Gregarious Narain

Derek Overbey, Brett Petersel, Adrian Chan, Claire Chang & Tina Hui

You can’t really tell, but Chris Heuer is spinning the tunes on stage

Brian Remmel, Kristie Wells, Derek Overbey, Tina Hui, Anthony Grant, Claire Chang, Bernadette Balla, Brett Petersel, Gregarious Narain, Adrian Chan, Maria Ogneva & Chris Heuer

Yesterday, Social Media Week officially kicked off around the world. From London to New York to San Francisco, events devoted to promoting and furthering the education of social media took place. Here in San Francisco, things got off to a great start with Social Media Camp at the Presdio Officer’s Club.

This day-long unconference was hosted by the Social Media Club and offered a standard program while offering attendees the chance to have their own agenda by suggesting topics they wanted to share or hear from.  With 10 unconference panels and five traditional sessions, the attendees were treated to a variety of viewpoints and perspectives that they could take away.

Social Media Camp opened up with three keynotes along the lines of how to frame your conversation. From Khris Loux (Echo) to Kevin Marks (Ribbit/BT) and Cathy Brooks (Social Media Hour/Other Than This), lessons on building a conversation by understanding the synaptic web and coming to terms on being comfortable with what we do were cleverly given before moving on to focusing on more social media marketing principles. Other panels covered measurement in social media, social media & marketing, how customer service is the big thing in 2010, understanding collaboration, and the reality of the real-time web.

Here are some photos from the event:

Chris Heuer kicks off the Social Media Camp.

Echo founder, Khris Loux, gives his opening keynote on the synaptic web.

Kevin Marks talking about the art of tummeling.

Cathy Brooks gives her spin on the art of storytelling.

Maria Ogneva from Biz360 moderates a talk on social media metrics.

Chris Pitre (Idea) moderates a panel featuring Kristie Wells (Ribbit), Bliss Dake (Mighty Leaf Tea) and Thor Muller (GetSatisfaction).

Brian Zisk (Collecta), Jeremy Toeman (Stage Two) and Jolie O’Dell (ReadWriteWeb)

You can view more photos from this event by clicking here.