Archive for February, 2010

Kaitlin Pike

For those who attended, we hope you enjoyed our “Effective Social Media for Event Exhibitors” webcast. As requested, we’re posting the slides we used here. We’ll soon have the full webcast – audio and slides – up for you to watch. If you didn’t get a chance to watch our webcast live, we invite you to check it out and send us any questions you may have.

Thanks!

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Kaitlin Pike is the Community Manager of Web 2.0 Expo. She can be reached @w2e or @kcpike.

Kaitlin Pike

Update 3/19: Our application period is now closed. Thank you for your interest! We will get back to you with an answer next week.

Collaboration is the heart of Web 2.0. But we at Web 2.0 Expo know that effective cooperation involves more than good technology; we also recognize the very human drive behind it. And we can think of no better example of the human need to collaborate — and the creative ways it can be done — than can be found in the countless non-profits that work to better our community and world by using the web as an organizing tool.

We are once again hosting a Non-Profit Pavilion at Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco. This Web 2.0 Expo tradition has hosted such organizations as ChangingthePresent, Amoration, Creative Commons, Donorschoose, Knowmore, Social Actions, USIBA and the University of Denver CIS Program. You can also see this past fall’s Web 2.0 Expo New York Non-Profit Pavilion list.

If you’re a non-profit organization that is using Web 2.0 technologies to support your cause, mission, or community goals, we invite you to apply for a spot in our Pavilion.

We will choose 10 non-profits to participate in the Pavilion (located on the Expo floor). Each organization will be supplied with a booth space, on-site branding, an Internet connection, and inclusion in the events guide, completely free of charge.

To apply, fill out the form below. The deadline to apply is March 18.

Organizations must be a registered 501c3 to participate. Space is limited to 10 non-profits. An internal Web 2.0 Expo committee will select the booth recipients and announcements will be made the week of March 22.

Thank you.

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Kaitlin Pike is the Community Manager of Web 2.0 Expo. She can be reached @w2e or @kcpike.

Kaitlin Pike

As part of our efforts to get you some virtual swag before Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2010 begins, we’d like to offer another free book chapter from O’Reilly.

“Effective UI” (Download now)

Written by Jonathan Anderson, John McRee, and Robb Wilson, this book provides a complete roadmap to building groundbreaking software centered on user experience (UX) quality, how to get management support, employing product management strategies proven to deliver greater success, and how to manage the design, engineering, staffing, and business considerations that must be centered on the user’s needs and working effectively in tandem all throughout the project.

Enjoy!

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Kaitlin Pike is the Community Manager of Web 2.0 Expo. She can be reached @w2e or @kcpike.

Kaitlin Pike

Dear New Web 2.0 Companies,

So sorry to hear you’re singing the Entrepreneur Blues. You’re cash-strapped, short on time, and getting frustrated with your co-founders (oh, trust me—they feel the same about you). You have enough problems just trying to sort out details with the overseas developer you hired, let alone trying to pitch your product to potential clients or VCs.

Want some help with your hustle? Apply for Launch Pad 2010 at Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco.

We’re looking for new companies or products that are disrupting or transforming today’s Web 2.0 world. Five companies will be chosen by a panel to present on stage at Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco on May 5, 2010. Each will have five minutes to present their company or product and will receive real-time feedback from a panel of industry experts and the audience.

Here are some of the rules and guidelines of Launch Pad:

  • Entrants do not need to launch their company or a major product/service to qualify.
  • All proposals will be reviewed before Web 2.0 Expo by our panel.
  • The judging panel will be comprised of industry experts who will review Launch Pad companies for their value to their market (consumer, enterprise, etc.).
  • Judges will select about five finalists, each of whom will have five minutes to pitch on stage, in front of the Web 2.0 Expo audience (the largest gathering of the innovators in the Internet industry) and the panel.
  • Each company will receive feedback on its presentation from both the panel and the audience.

Submit Your Company for Consideration—entries are due by March 31, 2010.

If you have questions, we have answers. Contact Joylyn Tanner for more information on Launch Pad at jtanner@techweb.com.

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Kaitlin Pike is the community manager of Web 2.0 Expo. She can be reached @w2e or @kcpike.

Kaitlin Pike

Looking for a reason to go to Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco this year? We have 10 for you: Brand new sessions with speakers and panels galore.

Here’s the list of this week’s additions. Stay tuned for more in the coming weeks.

  1. The Laws of User Experience
  2. Privacy and Free Speech: It’s Good for Business
  3. Building an Ad-Supported Business Around a Community
  4. Social Gold: Game Design of Farmville
  5. Being Optimally Social – How Not Talking About Your Product Can Bring Huge Rewards
  6. Web + 1 – From User Experience to Customer Experience
  7. Web Analytics – Tracking People and Not Just Numbers
  8. Money For Nothing: User-Generated Virtual Goods
  9. Picture the Impossible: How a Game Can Change Your City
  10. Culture 2.0: Using Social Media to Engage Multicultural Communities

See what the experts who lead these sessions are saying before the conference commences. Go to our Twitter list of #w2e speakers to read what’s new with these industry leaders.

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Kaitlin Pike is the Community Manager of Web 2.0 Expo. She can be reached @w2e or @kcpike.

Kaitlin Pike

As Francis Bacon said, scientia potentia est. And for the non-Latin speakers… most likely all of you: Knowledge is power.

Web 2.0 Expo empowers attendees through the knowledge our speakers, sessions, and Expo exhibitors bring to each show. We’d like to expand on this theme and serve up some learning pre-event (if you hadn’t heard, we have one coming up May 3-6 at San Francisco’s Moscone West). For starters, we are offering you free chapters from a few of our favorite books about the Web 2.0 world.

First off: Dan Zarella’s “The Social Media Marketing Book”. This easy-to-understand book introduces you to social networks, blogging, and several other websites, and helps you plan and execute strategies with actionable advice every step of the way.

Download it now.

You’ll periodically see announcements about new free chapters on our Twitter account and here on our blog between now and the commencement of Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco. The chapters will remain available through the conference.

In addition to the book previews, we have speaker interviews lined up to go on our blog. We may ask for your help with questions from time to time, so feel free to reach out and tell us what you want answered.

Enjoy reading!

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Kaitlin Pike is the Community Manager of Web 2.0 Expo. She can be reached @w2e or @kcpike.