Jeff Nolan, VP of NewsGator's Media & Consumer Products will be representing NewsGator at today's "Widget Wednesday" hosted by SocialText.  The event is billed as a "distributed hackathon" for widgets and mashups. In addition to NewsGator, Box.net, Denodo, Meebo, Six Apart, Slideshare and others will participate in the hackathon; the goal is the development of OpenSocial standard-based widgets and mashups on the Socialtext platform.  More details are available here.

Are you attending the Widget Summit 2008 in San Francisco next week?  If you are, rest assured NewsGator will be there as well.  In particular, Walker Fenton, General Manager of NewsGator Media & Consumer Products will be in attendance.

The Widget Summit is occurring next Monday and Tuesday (Nov 3-4) and should be a great experience for anyone in the content syndication space.  According to the organizers:

"this year's conference program includes a detailed look inside the widget platforms changing the way users interact with rich content across multiple environments. Widget Summit will help you reach and engage new audiences across multiple platforms including over 180 million Windows Vista desktops, 25 million active Facebook users, 10 million iPhone smartphones, or the millions of users that call My Yahoo! and iGoogle home every day. The world of widgets reaches beyond a standard web address and into the desktops, mobile phones, social networks, blogs, and personal homepages of today's fragmented online engagements."

So, there you have it!  If you would like to connect with Walker next week, shoot me an email (joshl@newsgator.com) and I'll get you in touch with him.

If you happen to be in NYC area, NewsGator Media & Consumer Product's VP of Sales, Ed Manning, is attending the Future of Business Media event today.  This is the first executive conference focused on the future of the business and trade media industry. 

If you're interested in ways in which NewsGator can help you expand your company's reach, enhance customer engagement and interaction, and increase ad revenue -- all through syndication of content -- you should get in touch with Ed.  He can be reached at edm@newsgator.com.

Right now Jeff Nolan, VP of NewsGator's Media & Consumer Products, is live blogging from an all day event called "Forrester Future of Social Web," hosted by Jeremiah Owyang from Forrester.  Check it out!

Two weeks from today, Jeff Nolan, VP of NewsGator Consumer & Media Products, will be attending the Online Market World event in San Francisco. While Jeff won't actually be speaking -- though it looks like there will be a slew of interesting speakers -- he will be attending sessions on behalf of NewsGator.  So, if you'd like to talk with Jeff while you're at the event, feel free to shoot me a line at joshl@newsgator.com and I'll pass it on to him.

There should be several other appearances by NewsGator folks at other events of this nature this later in October; I'll let you know when I have more information.