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Back in December, SAP and MyVenturePad hosted an event at SAP's Morton St. offices in New York, to mark the first anniversary of our partnership and celebrate MyVenturePad's impressive growth rate.

The event included a panel discussion around "Growing in a Down Economy," featuring panelists Albert Wenger, a Managing Partner at Union Square Ventures, John Jordan, PhD, Executive Director at the Center for Digital Transformation at Penn State University, and David Kidder, CEO at Clickable, as well as moderator Robin Carey, CEO and Co Founder of Social Media Today. Several NY-based MVP bloggers, including Barbara Weltman, Nina Kaufmann, Steve Mann, Marilyn Pratt, and Kirk Petersen also took part in the discussion.

Everyone in attendance found the discussion valuable, so we've decided to make it available all of our MyVenturePad readers. You can now view the panel discussion below, at your leisure. We've divided it into three video segments.

The conversation incorporated topics such as how SMEs can benefit from Web 2.0 and using online communities to grow their businesses, lessons learned from past economic cycles, how to focus on keeping customers, cost effective tools which SMEs should consider, and how to maintain business momentum and growth. Enjoy!

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