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title: 'Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for July 15'
date: '2008-07-15T22:59:44-07:00'
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# Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for July 15

#### [Start – A Conference for Entrepreneurs](http://thestartconference.com/)

Just noticed this new conference for entrepreneurs with some of the big names from the Web 2.0 world. Yes, it’s in San Francisco, but it looks cool. August 7.

#### [Do Startup Companies Need Community Managers?](http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/hiring_a_community_manager.php)

Marshall Kirkpatrick spoke to a number of Portland tech types before writing “You know what little startup companies need these days? They need to hire more people! It may be a frightening thought, but in an increasingly social world – being social is becoming an important full time job. ‘Community Manager’ is a position increasingly being hired for at large corporations (see Jeremiah Owyang’s growing list of people with that kind of job) but what about smaller companies? We asked a number of people what they thought and the following discussion offers some great things to think about, pro and con.”

#### [Charlene Li’s coming to Portland, wants to have a drink with you at Josh Bancroft’s TinyScreenfuls.com](http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/2008/07/charlene-lis-coming-to-portland-wants-to-have-a-drink-with-you/)

Josh Bancroft writes “We’re having a ‘tweetup’ at the bar in the Governor Hotel in Portland, starting at 8:30PM on Wednesday night, July 16. Charlene says if you bring your copy of Groundswell, she’ll sign it, and buy you a drink. 🙂 You can get the details on Upcoming (you can RSVP if you want, but this is way informal, so no guarantees, of course – it’s a bunch of people descending on a hotel bar).”

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