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SAS is hosting three big events this week, and you can follow along from your computer through video, photos, blog posts and more. Quickly, the three events are:

• SAS Media Day in Cary.
  
• The M2009 data mining conference in Las Vegas.
  
• The Premier Business Leadership Series in Las Vegas.

For SAS Media Day today, my colleagues in external communications are hosting 20 journalists and bloggers from six different countries. Attendees heard presentations this morning from SAS CEO Jim Goodnight and SAS CMO Jim Davis. Customer panels were part of the event too, with panel topics on optimization and fraud detection. You can follow journalist commentary from the event live on Twitter by searching for SAS Media Day. Current interesting tidbits include:

• JohnGallant1: From #SAS Media Day. Former G-man describes networked (vs organized) crime. Supply chain of folks involved, from stealing info to using it.
  
• MendezABC11: Discussing business optimization and fraud prevention at #SAS media day. Interesting technological applications.
  
• ESLundquist: #SAS 2009 revenues will be close or surpass 2008 $2.26billion says #businessanalytics SAS boss Jim Goodnight at media day at HQ

The media day panels are being recorded, and I'm told video will be available tomorrow, so come back for that later this week. James Taylor, blogger and decision management consultant, has already posted three entries from SAS Media Day, including this one about SAS customers using optimization.

M2009 is taking place in Vegas today, where hundreds of analysts, statisticians and managers in the data mining field have been discussing business uses of data mining. My colleagues Kelly LeVoyer and Anna Brown will also be recording interviews with the winning poster presentations, which will be available after the event.

Kelly and Anna will be staying in Vegas for The Premier Business Leadership Series later this week, where they'll be semi-live blogging the keynote talks and interviewing some of the customer presenters. Watch for those posts to appear here Wednesday and Thursday. You can also track this event on Twitter and see who's attending on Crowdvine.