The Yahoo! Searchlight Awards and more

If you happen to be in Manhattan on Thursday, February 22, be sure and drop by the Yahoo! Searchlight Award show, which will be held on the 8th floor of the Time-Life Building, 1271 Avenue of the Americas, between 2:00 and 5:00 p.m. The entertaining and interactive show will celebrate the best and brightest in search advertising over the past year. A panel of industry experts will evaluate four agency search advertising campaigns and the audience will vote for the winner. While this isn’t exactly a publisher-centric event, it is a good chance to meet and greet successful folks in the search marketing field, get marketing ideas that you might be able to employ in your own business, be a part of the Yahoo! community, and have a good time. For more info, click here. 

More Upcoming Yahoo! Events
Yahoo! Publisher Network will be on-hand for these events over the coming weeks and months. Check back for more detail as the date of each draws near.

Lunch 2.0
When: February 21
Where: Yahoo! Mission College campus, Building 1, Training Rooms 3 &4
What: Meet us for sandwiches and lively conversation about what’s going on inside Yahoo! In addition to the Yahoo! Publisher Network, folks from Mail and MyBlogLog will also be on hand. Expect announcements!

South by Southwest Interactive
When: March 9 to 13
Where: Austin Convention Center, Austin, Texas
What: One of the best interactive meet-and-greets around, this year’s SXSW Interactive Festival will feature some of technology’s heaviest hitters. Yahoo! will be sponsoring a special party the evening of March 12, open to all registered SXSW Interactive attendees, and our own Cody Simms will be manning the panel “Online Publishers & Ad Networks” on March 10. 

Web BlogHer Business Summit ‘07
When: March 21 to 23
Where: Affinia Manhattan Hotel, New York City
What: A business summit for both women and men—web publishers, small business owners, media mavens, entrepreneurs and executives. Yahoo! Publisher Network will be welcoming all conference-goers with a cocktail party on opening night.

Web 2.0
When: April 15 to 18
Where: Moscone West Convention Center, San Francisco
What: The first event specifically designed to help teach Web 2.0 techniques and best practices to people in the trenches who are directly involved in the design, development, engineering, marketing and business of second-generation internet technology. We’ll be manning a booth, so look for us on the floor. (What’s web 2.0?)

EconSM
When: April 26
Where: Beverly Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles
What: We’re co-sponsoring The Economics of Social Media conference, which will focus on the business, financial and economic aspects arising out of the disruption being caused by the rise of social media, emerging business models, and how all this is changing the dynamics of many industries.

—Michael Mattis, Head Blogster