My friend Murray Newlands who writes an incredible Affiliate Marketing Blog is also the co-founder of a series of conferences called Monitoring Social Media. On October 5, 2010 Monitoring Social Media will be coming to Boston.

Check out the line up of presenters:

Zach Hofer-Shall – Analyst, Forrester Research
Zach is an experienced Analyst covering Social Intelligence – the strategy of turning social media data into actionable marketing and business insight. He publishes research on social media metrics and measurement, influencer marketing, and the fragmented listening platform market.

Katie Delahaye Paine – CEO & founder – KDPaine & Partners LLC
Katie heads up KDPaine & Partners, a leading communications research consultancy, and is the author of Measuring Public Relationships, the data-driven communicators guide to measuring success. She also writes the first blog and newsletter dedicated entirely to measurement and accountability.

Keith Holder-Woods – VP Research – Glide Technologies
Keith is a pioneer in automated sentiment analysis. A former Research Director of Saatchis, he began his career creating advanced mathematical models for the UK Government. He also worked at IBM where he built one of the first commercial sentiment analysis models.

Carol Leaman – CEO, Postrank Inc.
Carol Leaman heads up PostRank, which tracks millions of pieces of content published on the web every day, and tens of millions of audience engagement across more than 25 social networks. A former Management Consultant with an accounting Masters, Carol works out of Waterloo, Canada.

Stephen DiMarco – CMO, Compete
Stephen oversees Compete’s award-winning consumer services and emerging vertical markets, as well as its intelligence and targeting services to fortune 500 companies. A co-founder of Internet strategy consulting firm, ZEFER, he previously worked for News Corporation.

Stephanie Noble – Digital Media Measurement Consultant/Paden Noble
Stephanie is an accomplished social media entrepreneur specializing in measurement and new platforms. To connect clients with the right tools, Stephanie marries expertise with many measurement and web visibility systems with intimate knowledge of a client’s industry.

Amber Naslund – Director of Community for Radian6
Amber is an experienced communications and business strategist, specializing in social media listening. She’s a writer, professional speaker, community and social media strategist, and works with businesses of all sizes to solve business problems through better communication.

Mark Schmulen – General Manager of Social Media, Constant Contact
Mark is responsible for guiding Constant Contact’s social media product strategy and external education efforts. Prior to Constant Contact, Mark served as CEO of NutshellMail, a social media monitoring solution that is now part of Constant Contact’s suite of online marketing tools

Aafia Chaudhry – CEO, JuvoLab & Founding Partner, Noesis
Aafia Chaudhry, MD is an industry-renowned pharmaceutical life cycle management strategist and investment manager. She frequently speaks and publishes independent research on the topics of physician and healthcare community social media usage.

Marshall Sponder – Analyst & PR/SEO Consultant
Marshall is the founder of Webmetricsguru.com, an industry blog about Web analytics, social media and search marketing. An Emeritus Director of Social Media at the Web Analytics Association, he is also on the SEMPO Research Committee.

Seth Grimes – Business Analytics Strategist, Plana Corporation
Seth Grimes is an analytics-strategy consultant with Washington DC based Alta Plana Corporation and the leading industry analyst covering text analytics. He consults, writes, and speaks on business intelligence, text mining, data systems and visualization, and semantics, social media, and content.

Giles Palmer – Founder and CEO, Brandwatch
Giles is a recognised expert on social media monitoring technology and data. He has led Brandwatch from a UK Government-funded project to a leading social media analysis company with a global customer-base.

Philip Sheldrake – Founder & Partner, Influence Crowd
Philip authored “The Social Web Analytics eBook 2008” (PDF link) and now works with analytics vendors around the world to translate their analysis into a format that may be integrated readily into board-level decision making processes.

Luke Brynley-Jones – Director, Influence People
Having developed over 40 online communities over the past 10 years, Luke is one of the UK’s most experienced social media experts. A Co-founder of Influence People and host of Monitoring Social Media, Luke specialises in B2B social media marketing.

Murray Newlands – Director, Influence People
A renowned blogger and social media consultant, Murray has an encyclopaedic knowledge of online marketing. A host of the London Blog Club, and Co-founder of Influence People, he was recently shortlisted for Affiliate Summit Blogger of the Year.

The event still has some early bird tickets available and they will all be gone by September 25, 2010, so get yours soon.