Jen Bekman is vying for a panel spot at SXSW ‘09. You can help her secure this place by casting a vote for her proposal:

Curating the Crowd-Sourced World

Type: Panel
Presenter: Jen Bekman, 20×200 | Jen Bekman Projects, Inc.
Description: With all the stuff we weed through online, good filters are crucial. Who’s best-suited to determine what’s best – curators or the crowd? People have their religion about one or the other, however this panel will focus on the overlap, the grey areas and how curating and crowd-sourcing enrich each other.

Voting closes on August 29, so please, kind reader, give us a vote!

Jen Bekman has been a busy bee out West for quite a while. She hosted a 20×200 party this week, and the week before she gave a talk at PSKF. You’d think it be high time for the little lady to return to NYC but no! This weekend (July 26th and 27th) Jen will be in Portland, Oregon to join a panel of reviewers for Photolucida’s Northwest Summer Portfolio Review.

For those of you in the Portland area, check out the Art Institute of Portland on Saturday, July 26 from 6 – 9pm. As part of the weekend Portfolio Review there will be an Portfolio Walk showcasing national and local emerging photographers.

If you see Jen, please send her back to New York straightaway, we miss her around here!

Once again the tireless Jen Bekman boards an airplane and sets forth out into the wilds of the west to attend a conference dedicated to sharing and learning about new ideas in the creative community. Jen will take part in PSFK and join 25 other “senior professionals from the advertising, design, digital, entertainment, media and marketing industries” for a day of engaging and inspiring colloquiums.

If you are lucky enough to be in the San Francisco area, and are interested in attending (and why wouldn’t you be if you are reading this blog?!), you can grab yourself a ticket here.