The incredibly geeky Social Media Week launched in New York and five other cities around the world yesterday, offering a long list of events that your mother with an aol.com email wouldn’t be invited to. Yes, this means your Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Tumblr, WordPress, LinkedIn, 4square, and even Myspace accounts might finally have some value.

Held in various venues around the city (including NYU), the conference is co-sponsored by popular media outlets like the Times, Wired and Time Inc. The advisory board also includes some head honchos of new media, including the founder of Mashable and a global media exec at Razorfish. But since this is “Social” Media Week, organizers are encouraging guests to host their own events, to which the guests replied via Twitter, “does this mean we have to meet each other in person?”

Unfortunately, tickets for the best events (see below) are absurdly pricey , if not sold out already. But this is why social media geeks also love craigslist. And for a conference dedicated to new media, Social Media Week’s website is surprisingly difficult to navigate. So here’s our own concise list of the top events to consider:

• Social Media Marketing & Millennials: A Real Time Focus Group @ The Princeton Club — Friday, 8:30 a.m.
  Panel includes our very own editor-in-chief Jessica Roy!
• NYC Mayors’ Race ’09: The Social Media Impact @ Open Planning Project — Tuesday, 5 p.m.
• Fashion Goes Social: The Devil Wears Prada and Tweets About It @ The Hotel on Rivington — Tuesday, 6 p.m.
• Navigating Social Media & New Technology in Healthcare @ NYU Stern Kaufman Center — Wednesday, 4 p.m.
• A Shaq to the System: Tebow, Tiger and the New Online Realities of Sports Journalism @ Destination Bar — Wednesday, 4:30 p.m.
• The Future Journalist: NextUP NYC @ 92Y Tribeca — Wednesday, 6 p.m.
• Is the Future F#cked? @ Hudson Terrace — Thursday, 6:30 p.m.
• The Future of Social Media in Higher Education @ McGraw-Hill Building — Friday, 12 p.m.

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