The Mashable team is hosting our U.S. Summer Tour stop in San Francisco tonight with networking, open bar, and awesome prizes. In case you couldn’t make it, you can still participate in the event on our live stream. We’ll be joined by Rachel Sklar , who will be interviewing attendees on our Watchitoo live stream . We encourage you to participate in the live steam and suggest questions for Rachel to ask in her interviews with the local social and tech community. Feel free to also submit the questions in the comments below or on Twitter using #summermash. We also want you to help facilitate some of the discussion on Watchitoo by joining us on-camera to help ask attendees questions and answer some social media trivia. If you’re interested in being brought on-camera, the details are outlined below. You’ll also have a chance to win tickets to attend the events through the contest. We’re also hosting a TechKaraoke Afterparty, so if you weren’t able to snag tickets for the event, we hope you can join us after. TechKaraoke Afterparty Please join Mashable and Yahoo! for the official SummerMash San Francisco TechKaraoke afterparty at The Parlor feat. KJ Roger Niner. Yahoo! will be giving out cool prizes for the Best Singer, Best Duet, and Best Group! People will be allowed to vote via Twitter by using the hashtag #YahooRocks. When: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 — 10:30pm-2:00am Where: The Parlor, 2801 Leavenworth Street, San Francisco, CA What: Rockstars, Yahootinis (Yahoo!’s special drink creation!), Prizes and more! Mashable Watchitoo Summer Tour Contest Contest Submission Criteria: Upload a 14-second YouTube video explaining why you should be brought on live to chat with hosts/attendees at the Mashable 2010 Summer Tour. Answer the question: “Why are you the one to be featured LIVE on the Mashable Summer Tour Live stream?” YouTube video link must be posted to Facebook/Twitter with appropriate hashtags #summermash #watchitoo Become a fan of both Mashable & Watchitoo on Facebook. (Please use your real identity so we can confirm). After uploading to be picked for the contest, please email: hila@watchitoo.com with your contact information Prize: Winners will be selected to participate live in the show. Mashable & Watchitoo will select winners. If you’re chosen to participate, you will get to ask some of the virtual hosts live questions & answer social media trivia. Grand Prize: Mashable will award the best video with 2 tickets to the west coast event in San Fransisco, and then 2 tickets for each subsequent city: DC, NYC, & Chicago. Socialize 1. RSVP and connect via our Facebook Event page , 2. Checkin at the “Mashable Summer Tour Seattle” venue on Foursquare , 3. RSVP and connect on Meetup , 4. 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The Mashable Summer Tour Stops in San Francisco: Live Interviews [VIDEO]
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