The event has been using the hashtag #SocialFresh on Twitter, so you can catch the excitement by watching the countless tweets by speakers, organizers, sponsors, and attendees. The format is great, because it has top social media experts from national/international companies, and there are no break-out sessions. Everyone will get a chance to have the same experiences for two full-days.

Scott Monty; Christopher Penn; and Jay Baer are each providing keynote presentations. I’m also looking forward to hearing from Adrian Parker, Radio Shack; Chris Moody, Red Hat; Chuck Hemann, WCG; Eric Boggs, Argyle Social Media; Jane Quigley, Strategy JQ; Jesse Catlin, eMarketer; Kipp Bodnar, HubSpot; Matthew Knell, AOL; Shauna Causey, Nordstrom; and Corey Creed, Hippo Internet Marketing.

Learn more about this event online at SocialFreshConference.com and catch me on Twitter at @JasonLongo and follow hashtag #SocialFresh

My initial experiment involved Raven, the vector editor, and I’m very impressed. The features are very similar to Adobe Illustrator, and the vector images easily transfer to or from Illustrator or the design program of your choice. Raven can export files to EPS, PDF, SVG, and bitmap.

Being cloud-based, there is no software to install and your work can be saved in your online account. Aviary makes it easy to share your work in their gallery, Facebook,MySpace, Digg, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Tumblr. My quick tour made me question how is this all free and so inventive. My guess is that they are building a foundation and user-base for future monetization.

Aviary is on a mission to make creation accessible to artists of all genres, from graphic design to audio editing. We’re a privately held company currently headquartered in New York City with team members around the world. Our founders also created Worth1000.com, a talented community of 500,000 digital artists that participate in amazing daily contests.

The screenshot below is just one of 290 hall of fame pages. There are already 5,800 works of this quality that were created with the Aviary tools. The collection may look intimidating, but hopefully it inspires you and illustrates the power of Aviary’s, cloud based programs. There are tons of tutorials on the website for each of the programs. Have fun.

I’m using Google’s Chrome, GMail, Blogger, Bookmarks, Calendar, Tasks, Notebook, Sites, Picassa, Documents, and other tools so that my work is truly mobile, secure, and shared when I want it to be. I lost a lot of work, late last year, when my PC and hard drives failed. I will do a better job of backing up, but why not let Google take some responsibility for that task as well.

Some of the most amazing discoveries during this move are that, Blogger and Google Sites are extremely fast to update, and you can use your own domain name for either of them. Google Sites, let you create and manage a personal or business website through a web-based content management system. It does have limitations in that you can’t add programming such as SSI, CSS, or even JavaScript, but for a basic website it’s great. Blogger has always been excellent, as your entries get into Google’s searches pretty immediately. I used to ftp to my own domain, but Google changed the process. Although my own domain is used, the files are really stored on Google servers and the time from saving your blog to it being available is instantaneous.

I’ve had a GMail account since the beginning, when Google offered accounts to a limited group. I used it, but never fully embraced it as e-mail until a few days ago. Did you know that from your GMail account you send mail from an unlimited number of e-mail accounts? There is a limit of five other accounts for which you can receive e-mail. I cheated on the limit, by opening another GMail account and forwarding a number of e-mail accounts through one GMail account. If you think about it, this would let you receive e-mails from twenty-six different e-mail addresses or more if you get creative.

You can set up multiple signatures through “Canned Responses.” Honestly it worked great for me yesterday, but now they are missing. If and when I get these to work, it only solves part of my problem. Canned responses are not a part of the Google IPhone application. I may end up storing all of my signatures in an archived e-mail and cutting and pasting or something. There are extensions for Chrome, but I know that I want to set things up so that I’m not tied to my PC or to the browser.

Google Bookmarks is great. I have always had a disjointed collection of bookmarks on every PC and every browser that I used. Now, I’m making decisions about what links I want, how to label them, and they are all available to me from any web connection. Tasks, Calendar, and GMail work great together; especially in the Chrome browser. Every intuitive action that I want to do, seems to have been developed by the amazing Google team. If not already a part of the browser or service; there is usually a Google Lab or Chrome extension that is ready to help.

If you haven’t guessed, in terms of my IPhone – the Google app brings the power of my move towards their services extremely portable. See you all on the cloud.