There has been a lot of discussion in the Cleveland area lately about social media and potential companies that merit investment. I strongly believe there a number of local social media companies that are contenders for investment (i.e. - big-ass money) – Within3 (www.within3.com), Zolio (www.zolio.com), Corkshare (www.corkshare.com) and GamerTrainer (www.gamertrainer.com) to name a few. I recently came across this video and thought it would be a great primer on what we should be thinking of locally and regionally. Sharon Wienbar of Scale Venture Partners discusses what’s hot and not so hot for 2009 in social media investment. In this 15 minute podcast Wienbar describes what every entrepreneur wants to know: what will make venture partners open up their checkbooks.