Foregive the shameless plug but, for what it is worth, both Andrew and I will be speaking on social software in the next few weeks.

I will be leading a panel on social software at the SoftEdge Conference in New York on October 1st. The panel is entitled "Social Enterprise Software: from automating business process to enhancing human interactions and more" and features Blogger co-founder Meg Hourihan, LinkedIn CEO Reid Hoffman, Reuters head of Collaboration Services David Gurle and Tacit CEO David Gilmour. The SoftEdge Conference will be focused more generally on software innovation and promises to be an interesting collection of people and topics.

Andrew will be speaking on a panel next Tuesday for the MIT Stanford Venture Lab. Andrew's panel is entitled "Social Networking: Is there Really a Business Model?" and includes Friendster CEO Jonathan Abrams, SocialText CEO Ross Mayfield, Software Product Marketing eGroup President Cynthia Typaldos, moderator Tony Perkins, AlwaysOn Editor-in-Chief, and special guest Reid Hoffman.

Both panels promise to be pretty interesting. If you happen to make it to either of them, drop by and say hello.