So, Serena, our EVP of Social Media who will be out of town and cannot attend the event on Monday, said that she heard through her socalTECH  subscription, that they were giving away a few tickets.  Nothing much, just let socalTECH know why you like them in an email and they will draw a winner.  For those of you who don’t know socalTECH, explaining why you like them couldn’t Last week my team was reviewing our upcoming event calendar and the subject of PerfectBusiness.com’s “ Perfect Pitch 2009 ” event came up.  This event is perfect for us –

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Local technology executives seem to be optimistic going into the new year, believing the worst of the economic decline has passed, and are also looking at hiring this year, according to the latest socalTECH.com Industry Survey . Tags: survey technology executives socaltech economy jobs hirin The non-scientific survey was a shift from the fairly negative outlook from last year's survey. According to the results--tallied by the David James Agency , which conducted they survey for us--82 percent of respondents to the survey are expecting some level of growth in 2010.

In his post, he mentions the following events / event organizers, and you should visit his post for a bit more on each of them. LA CTO Forum Dealmaker Media Digital Family Reunion Startups Uncensored Social Media Club, LA Twiistup Mindshare LA LA Hadoop Meetup Dorkbot Geek Dinners LA Cloud Computing LA Web Application Developers LA PHP Developers In addition to these, I'd recommend looking at: Technology Council of Southern California – Surprised John didn't mention this one.

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