I wanted to let people know about two upcoming conferences where I will be speaking in the next 2 weeks.

Community 2.0 May 11 – 13 (San Francisco)

I will be on a panel discussion at 2:15 on Tuesday about How to be a Kick-A$$ Community Manager with some rock star community managers:

• Kelly Ripley Feller, Community Strategist, Intel
• Josh Hilliker, Architect/Community Manager, Intel vPro Expert Center
• Kellie Parker, Community Manager, Sega
• Connie Bensen, Community Strategist & Community Manager, Techrigy

WebVisions May 20 – 22 (Portland, OR)

I’ll be presenting here in Portland at WebVisions on Friday, May 22nd at 10:30am on the topic of Companies and Communities: Participating without being sleazy and will be covering many of the topics from my book.

The speaker list for WebVisions is a who’s who of cool people, and the conference is really reasonable to attend ($250 and under), so you should register if you haven’t already! They are also offering a very nice combo registration deal for Open Source Bridge if you need to register for both.

There are also a couple of special events during WebVisions that you won’t want to miss – you don’t even need to register to attend these!

• Lunch 2.0
• The Whuffie Factor: Reading & Discussion by Tara Hunt

I hope to see you at one or both of these events!