The inaugural LikeMinds conference brought together an eclectic mix of social media experts and practitioners from near and far to discuss one of the most pertinent questions facing marketers: How do you measure social media and make it sustainable?

This Friday, Cut & Paste will have one final international showdown between 48 champions in 2D, 3D, and motion design from 16 cities around the world.

Bodega is launching its first endeavor, the “Mapping Project.” The meet-up, which takes place tomorrow at 303Grand in Williamsburg, Brooklyn aims to connect creatives, start-ups, social entrepreneurs, and small business owners with the purpose of spurring collaboration.

Coming up June 1st and 2nd, is Ypulse’s latest Youth Marketing Mashup conference in San Francisco. The gathering brings together participants from the marketing, media, education and non-profit worlds to share research, best practices and the latest strategies on marketing to youth with technology. Check out the full lineup here. PSFK readers can use the code READER to get 30 percent the price of admission.
PSFK talked with Anastasia Goodstein, founder of Ypulse to see what’s happening in the youth market:
What is the thing you are most excited for this year at Y-Pulse?
There are so many aspects of this year’s event [...]

A group of 51 artists from all over the world are celebrating the art of the everyday object at the Museum of Arts and Design’s exhibit “Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary”. In the spirit of Marcel Duchamp’s “Readymades”, these artists transform items that would normally blend invisibly into the background of daily life into stimulating works of art. Using found and mass-produced things like vinyl records, dog tags, thread and telephone books as their raw material, they have squeezed out new meaning, and beauty from ordinary stuff.  The show runs till April 19 at the Museum’s new Columbus Circle location. [...]