Helpful Material

• Twitter
• Facebook
• Linkedin
• Evernote is great for capturing notes as text, photo and voice.  It's also a great way to capture contact information for the people who would like to meet when at the conference.  I can't say enough good things about Evernote.

Contact Relationship Management Tools

• Contactually
• Highrise
• Excel

Books

• Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi
• Success Runs In Our Race by George Fraser
• Social Intelligence by Karl Albrecht

Interview

Ivan Misner Is considered the father of modern networking. His blog can be found here

Here is an interview I conducted with Ivan Misner

Additional Screencasts and Videos
(Password for the videos is "hashtag")

• How To Find Conference #hashtags using Twitter
• How to follow a #hashtag on Hootsuite
• How to find conference #hashtags using Hootsuite