We rolled the dice at our big Casino Royale holiday party at Sandbox Suites in December, where over 300 of y’all joined the fun over blackjack, roulette, and craps to not only have a ton of fun and to win some cool prizes — but to try to make the world a little bit better for those less fortunate.

* Train one woman as a community health worker in Afghanistan, who will assist 9,000 women annually, in turn, saving thousands of women who would have lost their lives or the lives of their babies during pregnancy and delivery (via Creating Hope International).

* Help provide a health worker with enough needles and syringes to provide over 1,000 vaccinations to children in clinics in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia (via Merlin’s emergency response in East Africa).

* Purchase a water treatment system for 2 families in earthquake and Cholera ravaged Haiti (via Haiti Hospital Appeal).

* Pay for books and a uniform for 1 war-torn and impoverished South Sudanese child for 1 year (via Omdurman Family Project).

* Support to civil society movements in Egypt, and protect citizen media and other independent news sources, as well as circumvent internet censorship in Egypt, Syria, and Iran by helping Access keep its servers  running on the Tor Network (via Access).

* Conserve 5 acres of the Tanzanian rainforest (about the size of 4 football fields) for one year (via Tanzania Forest Conservation Group).

We also donated food to families in need via the Marin Food Bank, and provided a box of toys for less fortunate children of Northern California.

Woot!

A big shout-out to our sponsors who helped us pull it off :   Thanks to Mediastay and OPOWER for all your support!

Our friends at Rockwall Wines invite you to use the special code “SFNEWTECH” for 15% off your next order and to enjoy free shipping.   You’re also encouraged to check out the awesome selection of wines at Cellar360 for a wonderful selection.   And, the next time you belly up to your favorite bar, please patronize Asahi Beer & Blue Angel Vodka, and your thirst will be quenched and your mood lifted!

Thanks for a great 2011!

We’re really looking forward to seeing you all in 2012!

Score discounted (or free!) tickets to SF New Tech’s “The Grand Cru: Best of the French Tech Tour 2011″!

The code “1grandcru-isnoozed” is good for 10% off – 25 available

The code “1grandcru-whatadeal” is good for 25% off – 25 available

The code “1grandcru-yeahbaby” is good for 50% off – 25 available

The code “1grandcru-seeyouthere” is good for 100% off (Free!) – 26 available

Click HERE to register!

There’s no need to pay full price if you’re quick! Early birds get the worm!

Over 100 discounted (and free!) tickets to SF New Tech are available NOW:

First 26 to use the code: “09feb-seeyouthere” get in for FREE
First 25 to use the code: “09feb-yeahbaby” get in for 50% off
First 25 to use the code: “09feb-whatadeal” get in for 25% off
First 25 to use the code: “09feb-isnoozed” will get in for 10% off

RINGING IN THE NEW YEAR

WITH HOT, NEW

TECH DEMOS!

WITH AWESOME LIVE DEMOS FROM . . .

Ellie Cachette, CEO & Founder
ConsumerBell will be showing how its system organizes groups and allows for affective consumer collaboration and well as effective marketing for companies.  http://www.consumerbell.com

DemDash

Jen Ancona, VP Strategy

DemDash is a social channel for politics that makes democratic participation easy, sociable and fun.  http://demdash.us/

Melih Onvural, Technical Product Manager
TokBox’s OpenTok API gives the freedom and flexibility to weave live group video communication into any online experience. http://www.tokbox.com

Roland Siebelink, CEO
Topicmarks is a web service that lets you take heaps of text and extract the key points in just a few seconds. It’s like having CliffNotes for any text you want. http://www.topicmarks.com

Bruce Carlisle, Founder & CEO
Conference Hound is an attendee-friendly brand disrupting the $100 billion plus conference industry through  advanced vertical search, community, personalization, trend-watching, organizer and exhibitor services and our embrace of the entire conference going experience.  http://conferencehound.com/

AND… FREE TACOS!!

(For the first 150 in the door)

Check out who took to the microphone — and why — during the 60-second spot announcements at SF New Tech on 4.21.  Click here!

And …

You can watch (and hear, if you’re lucky) video clips of the demos here. 

(Mahalo to Corporate Cinematographer -  ConradWade.com – (415) POD-SURF – @ThriveHD for taking control of the camera!) 

Discount Codes for 11/18 SF New Tech

Register @ http://nov18sfnewtech-com.eventbrite.com

1118-isnoozed      10.00% off
1118-whatadeal     25.00% off
1118-yeahbaby     50.00% off
1118-seeyouthere     100.00% off

GO!