Sponsors & Partners


About Meebo:

Meebo lets users gather their friends on a single buddy list where they can communicate in real-time across different IM platforms, communities, and traditional social networks. With over 90 million people sharing over 30 billion messages and 75 million links every month, Meebo is one of the Web’s fastest growing social media companies. Founded in September 2005, Meebo enables real-time social interactions with instant messaging and group chat at meebo.com and on partner sites across the Web. Investors include Sequoia Capital, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, JAFCO Ventures, Time Warner Investments, and KTB Ventures. Meebo is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.


About Facebook:

Founded in February 2004, Facebook is a social utility that helps people communicate more efficiently with their friends, family and coworkers. The company develops technologies that facilitate the sharing of information through the social graph, the digital mapping of people’s real-world social connections. Anyone can sign up for Facebook and interact with the people they know in a trusted environment. Facebook is a part of millions of people’s lives all around the world. Facebook is a privately-held company and is headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif.


About Pepsico:

At PepsiCo, we’re committed to achieving business and financial success while leaving a positive imprint on society – delivering what we call Performance with Purpose. Performance with Purpose is at the heart of every aspect of our business. We believe financial achievement can and must go hand-in-hand with social and environmental performance.

Our approach to superior financial performance is straightforward – drive shareholder value. By integrating a commitment to social and environmental performance into all of our businesses, we’re able to manufacture our products more efficiently and economically, attract even more of the world’s best talent, and sharpen our competitive edge in markets all over the world.


About Loreen Arbus Foundation:

The Loreen Arbus Foundation supports a broad scope of subject areas, including scientific and medical research; women and girls; people with disabilities and other minorities; gender and racial equity in media; the arts; the environment and world peace.


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About Attention PR:

ATTENTION is a social media marketing and communications agency. We help companies communicate authentically and measurably through user-generated media such as blogs, social networks, forums, and rich media sharing communities.

Attention is differentiated by our data-driven approach; we benchmark and measure a company’s performance [word-of-mouth] online and then structure and optimize online engagement based on incoming data.


About Surdna Foundation:

The Surdna Foundation seeks to foster just and sustainable communities in the United States communities guided by principles of social justice and distinguished by healthy environments, strong local economies, and thriving cultures.

For five generations, since 1917, the Foundation has been governed largely by descendants of John Andrus and has developed a tradition of innovative service for those in need of help or opportunity.