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Oct 1st, 2009 | Kaitlin Pike

Tweet This to Earn a Full-Price Conference Pass

Kaitlin Pike

EDIT: We will get back to all applicants by END OF TODAY or EARLY TOMORROW with your personalized code! We aren’t doing an automatic process because we wanted to avoid bots.

“Tweet This” Contest

“Use discount code [sample] for 30% off a Web 2.0 Expo New York conference pass—discount ends October 30! #w2e”

Tweet this sentence to enough of your friends, and you could earn a deeply discounted or free full-price Web 2.0 Expo New York conference pass. Every time someone buys a conference pass using your personalized discount code (which we will send you), you get an additional 10% off the cost of a full-price pass. That’s on top of the 30% discount we will give you for participating.

Here’s how to play:

• Sign up for the contest at the bottom of this post (scroll down, please!). All we need is your name and an email address to send you a personalized code.

• Tweet the discount code we give you to your followers so they can sign up using it.

• Kick back and let us do the rest of the work. We’ll contact you the week of November 1 to tell you how many people signed up using your code… and also to tell you how much money will be shaved off your conference pass.

If you already have a conference pass, you’re still more than welcome to participate. Although the credits you accrue will not work toward the pass you already purchased (retroactively that is), you will be able to earn another deeply discounted or fully paid-for pass for a friend or colleague. You can also use your credits toward an Expo conference in 2010. One last thing—although we think Twitter is the easiest way for you to spread this deal, there is no restriction as to where you can post your code! Feel free to email your friends or post it on your Facebook account.

We are limiting this contest to the first 100 people who apply – so hurry! The discount code you are given will only work through October 30, so the sooner you start spreading the word the better.

Post any questions in the blog comments section or message us @w2e on Twitter.

Good luck!

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

Sep 17th, 2009 | Kaitlin Pike

Web 2.0 Expo Non-Profit Pavilion: Apply Now

Kaitlin Pike

“If we are going to solve the world’s most pressing problems, we must put the power of the Web to work – its technologies, its business models, and perhaps most importantly, its philosophies of openness, collective intelligence, and transparency. And to do that, we must take the Web to another level. We can’t afford incremental evolution anymore.”

- Tim O’Reilly and John Battelle, “Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On”

Web 2.0 Expo is about much more than business development and learning useful new skills. It’s about disrupting and changing the system we live in.

We value those who work to better our community, whether that’s the local area or in the world community. Because of this, we are again setting up a Non-Profit Pavilion. 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.

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 and inclusion in the events guide, completely free of charge.

To apply, fill out the form below. The deadline to apply is September 27.

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 September 28.

Thank you.

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

Sep 17th, 2009 | Kaitlin Pike

How the Expo Helps Recession-Proof Your Web 2.0 Job

Kaitlin Pike

A recession is a great time for us to learn new tricks. If you’re looking to increase your value to your company (or as a freelancer or entrepreneur), you need to get in touch with the right teachers and take the right courses. Whether you are a developer, designer, or social media strategist, you can find both gurus and focused sessions at the Expo covering everything you need to learn to increase your potential.

Better yet, we’ve organized a quick list of 7 essential sessions for each of these three specialties to help guide you on your journey.

If these lists don’t suit your fancy (or don’t necessarily apply to your career), message us on Twitter @W2E to ask for help in deciding which sessions to attend. If you’re getting the free Expo Hall Only pass (discount code: webny09snex), we can help point you to all the great free events at Web 2.0 Expo, including our popular unconference, Web2Open. You’re also encouraged to send us your own personalized Web 2.0 Expo schedule to help others decide what to attend. Either post your list in the comments, on our Facebook Fan Page, or just Tweet it to us. Check out the conference schedule to put yours together.

See you in New York!

Developers’ Essential 7 Sessions for Upping Your Game

1) Mobile App Stores: The Developers’ Perspectives

2) The Software Systems That Scale Twitter

3) Best and Worst Practices Building Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) from Adobe and Microsoft

4) HTML5: Open Web Graphics, Animation and Video with SVG

5) Best Practices for Building Cross-Browser Addons

6) Improving Front-End Performance in Mature Web Apps

7) Latency Trumps All

For You Designers: 7 Sessions to a Better Look, Feel, and UX

1) CSS3 for Working Web Designers

2) Good Design Faster

3) Thinking Visually

4) Bootstrap Usability: Enhancing Your Product on a Shoestring Budget

5) Designing the Experience Curve

6) The Human Interface (or: Products are People, Too!)

7) Sketchboards & Prototyping—Methods for Rapid Design

7 Sessions to Improve Your Social Media Strategy

1) Business and Community in the Facebook Era: Preparing for a New Kind of Customer Relationship

2) Let’s Get Engaged! The New Customer Relationship Landscape

3) Marketing via Fan Boys/Fan Girls: Your Customers As Your Brand Evangelists

4) They Shall Know Us By Our Dialtone

5) Social Media Protocols: What You Need to Know BEFORE Your Team Starts Posting, Tweeting and Commenting

6) Effective Twitter for Business

7) Sparking a Crush: Attracting and Retaining New Users

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Kaitlin Pike is the new Community Manager for Web 2.0 Expo. She can be reached @W2E

Sep 16th, 2009 | Kaitlin Pike

Added Keynote Speakers: Jascha Franklin-Hodge & Ching-Yung Lin

Kaitlin Pike

We’re pleased to announce that we’ve added two new keynote speakers to our already impressive list:

jascha-franklin-hodgeJascha Franklin-Hodge is a founding partner of Blue State Digital, where he currently serves as the Chief Technology Officer. Blue State Digital spearheaded Obama for America’s extensive online fundraising, constituency building and peer-to-peer networking initiatives, all of which helped to create momentum for Obama’s successful presidential campaign. Jascha managed the team that built and ran the my.barackobama.com technology platform, and worked directly with Obama for America’s New Media team in providing the tools and platform to engage supporters, donors and volunteers. In addition, he managed the server and systems infrastructure that powered the Obama web presence.

ching-yung-linChing-Yung Lin is a Research Scientist and Project Lead at IBM| T. J. Watson Research Center. Since 2006, Dr. Lin has been the lead on the IBM SmallBlue project. SmallBlue is an IBM Corporation effort including worldwide Research, Software, and Service divisions. Inside IBM, this platform has been capturing and analyzing both people networks, document networks, and the cross-layer links between people and documents. An external product version of this platform (IBM Atlas) is available to other organizations. His research mainly focuses on multimodality signal analysis and complex network analysis, with applications on machine learning, distributed computing, embedded vision system, social computing and security. In 2003, Dr. Lin created and led more than 100 researchers in 23 worldwide research institutes for the first large-scale collaborative video semantic annotation project.

Visit our keynotes information page for more information.

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Kaitlin Pike is the new Community Manager for Web 2.0 Expo. She can be reached @W2E.

Sep 1st, 2009 | Janetti Chon

Oh, @Janerri where have you been? What’s happening?

Janetti Chon

Hi Web 2.0-ers. I hope you’ve had a nice summer. Today marks the start of September, which to me signifies the start of the fall conference season, and what a season it’ll be.

The teams at O’Reilly Media and TechWeb have been diligently programming and producing these past two months – preparing for the second Web 2.0 Expo New York this November – and launching Gov 2 Summit & Showcase in a few short weeks, held in Washington D.C.

Gov 2.0 Summit: The Platform for Change. Over the past fifteen years, the rise of the World Wide Web has resulted in remarkable new possibilities and business models reshaping our culture and our economy. Now the time has come to reshape government. Gov 2 is chaired by Tim O’Reilly and Richard O’Neil (The Highlands Group), alongside an intelligent program committee – read on to see the speaker lineup or schedule.

Web 2.0 Expo New York. The Power of Less. Constraints drive creativity, whether in business models, design paradigms, or platforms. The power of the small screen, the thin client, the streamlined interface. The power of small teams, or even going solo. The paradox of power: sometimes the best way to gain power is to give it away, which is why during these challenging times, we are learning that nothing builds brands like a nurtured community. The power of data: of data-centric business models, and the power of data to inform our decisions and to focus us on what matters. The power of less is the power of creative destruction. It’s the power to change the world. See how to participate here!

And in between the two we’ll manage to host our fifth Web 2 Summit this Oct 20-22, an event I’m particularly proud to announce as this year I have the pleasure of working with program chair John Battelle to help it come to life. He just published the speaker line up and festivities. Exciting stuff!

Headliners I’m particularly interested in hearing is U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra - the man in charge of our $150 billion R&D budget; Steve Schneider - Program Director at WestEd who is establishing the first-ever standard for technology literacy across the U.S. (by 2012); Cynthia Warner – president of a biofuel company that just might have the answer to… well, energy – and Austan Goolsbee - Chief Economist for President Obama. He bantered well with Jon Stewart on the Daily Show, keen to see hear his opinions live on stage in front of a roomful of peers. Oh, and last but not least, eager to feed the little hungry geek that lives inside me with the info from Brady Forrest’s ‘Human Sensors Discussion’ – oh, that’ll be good.

In general, there are lots of things that impress me about a conference –

  • its intelligence
  • its ability to connect peoples, ideas, communities
  • its momentary existence (because no two conferences are ever alike)
  • its seamless execution (at least when event director Meghan Reilly is at the helm)
  • its energy

And I’m really looking forward to experiencing all of that at Summit this fall. Earlier in the year Tim [O’Reilly] and John established the theme #WebSquared – an extension of 2008’s Web Meets World philosophy – and the schedule we’ll be announcing this week is comprehensive and relevant to the issues we are facing as a society today.

From Tim & John -

In our first program, we asked why some companies survived the dotcom bust, while others had failed so miserably. We also studied a burgeoning group of startups and asked why they were growing so quickly. The answers helped us understand the rules of business on this new platform.

Chief among our insights was that “the network as platform” means far more than just offering old applications via the network (”software as a service”); it means building applications that literally get better the more people use them, harnessing network effects not only to acquire users, but also to learn from them and build on their contributions.

Today, we realize that these insights were not only directionally right, but are being applied in areas we only imagined in 2004. The smartphone revolution has moved the Web from our desks to our pockets. Collective intelligence applications are no longer being driven solely by humans typing on keyboards but, increasingly, by sensors. Our phones and cameras are being turned into eyes and ears for applications; motion and location sensors tell where we are, what we’re looking at, and how fast we’re moving. Data is being collected, presented, and acted upon in real time. The scale of participation has increased by orders of magnitude.

Today, the exponential growth of Web has made its technologies service as the backbone of our everyday lives. If you want to discover more on the topic – download the whitepaper, and share your opinion on the Web Squared.

So there you go. That’s the reason we’ve all been so quiet here… there is a lot going on and we want you to explore and enjoy these live events. But if you can’t be with us in person, as always, you can catch the keynotes and recorded content on the various Blip.tv channels. There is currently only archived content, 2009 videos will get posted to these channels within a week of the event.

Stay tuned for more conference information and community announcements. Once again, let the games begin!

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Note: Janetti Chon is now Web 2 Summit’s Producer at Battellemedia, a partner of O’Reilly Media & TechWeb.

May 26th, 2009 | Janetti Chon

[NY] Happenings: Ignite NYC IV returns for Internet Week

Janetti Chon

If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Around the world geeks have been putting together Ignite nights to show their answers.
w2x09ny_ignitelogo-promo

Join us for another Ignite NYC IV, hosted by Web 2.0 Expo conference co-chair, Brady Forrest of O’Reilly Radar.

For speaker details and updates join Ignite on Facebook or see the O’Reilly Ignite community site. This event is free; cash bar. RSVP here.

Evening Schedule: Doors open at 6:45pm for cocktail hour. 8pm Film Contest. 8:30pm Ignite presentations, ending with bar service.

May 22nd, 2009 | Janetti Chon

Web 2.0 Expo New York: submit as a speaker by 5/26

Janetti Chon

Update: Deadline extended to midnight PST on Friday, 5/29

Happy Friday! Happy long weekend! HappyMemorial Day!

A quick reminder that if you’re interested in speaking at Web 2.0 Expo New York, which takes place November 16 - 19th at the Javits Center, our call for papers closes on Tuesday, May 26th!

If you’re passionate about the power of the web, share your knowledge and insights with your peers at Web 2.0 Expo New York. What kind of submissions are we looking for, you ask? Visit the Web 2.0 Expo New York proposals page for more details and a link to the submission form. Need a little guidance on creating an eye-catching proposal? Check out the great tips from Program Co-Chair Jennifer Pahlka on how to submit a successful proposal.

We had a fantastic inaugural event last year in New York and if you want to be involved for 2009, here’s your chance.

Our advisory board is already reading through submissions so yes, go enjoy some sun and time off but don’t miss your chance to submit.

Cheers,

~ Janetti

Apr 3rd, 2009 | Suzanne Axtell

Call for Participation Opens for Web 2.0 Expo New York

Suzanne Axtell

As the San Francisco edition of Web 2.0 Expo winds down (what a whirlwind four days it’s been!) the Call for Participation for the second edition of Web 2.0 Expo New York has opened. Please consider submitting a proposal to speak! This is another great opportunity to put your ideas and projects in front of a very savvy and connected audience, and we hope to see you there.

Like the SF show, we’ll continue to explore the theme of “The Power of Less”–how to best use the tools and principles of Web 2.0 technologies to innovate and stay competitive in a challenging (to say the least) economy. 

Topics include: 

- Landscape & Strategy 

- Marketing & Community 

- Design & User Experience 

- Development 

- Web 2.0 at Work 

- Government 2.0 

- Mobile

- Social Media 

Deadline for proposals is May 26. Visit the Web 2.0 Expo NY proposals page for more details and a link to the submission form. 

Note that the committee received over 1,000 proposals for Web 2.0 Expo SF, and we’re expecting a similar pool for NY. 

Program co-chair Jen Pahlka wrote up some great tips for successfully submitting a proposal specifically for Web 2.0 Expo.

In addition, below is advice that we often give to prospective speakers:

- Be authentic! Your peers need real-world scenarios they can use. Please submit original presentation ideas that focus on knowledge transfer, and engaging and relevant examples.

- Include as much detail about the planned presentation as possible. The more we know about what you plan to present and why it matters, the better.

- Be thorough! If you are proposing a panel tell us who else would be on it. If you are going to have a release let us know. If you feel this is something that hasn’t been covered before let us know.

- Keep it free of marketing.

- Keep the audience in mind: they’re technical, professional, and already pretty smart.

- Clearly identify the level of the talk: is it for beginners to the topic, or for gurus? What knowledge should people have when they come to the presentation?

- Give it a simple and straightforward title or name: Fancy and clever titles or descriptions make it harder for people (committee and attendees) to figure out what you’re really talking about

- Context is important. If your presentation is about something truly ground-breaking, earth-shattering, and new, it will be helpful to the reviewers if you describe it in terms of things that attendees might already know of.

- Limit the scope of the talk: in 45 minutes, you won’t be able to cover Everything about Widget Framework X. Instead, pick a useful aspect, or a particular technique, or walk through a simple program.

- Explain why people will want to attend: is the framework gaining traction? Is the app critical to modern systems? Will they learn how to deploy it, program it, or just what it is?

- Warmed-over talks from some conference circuit are less likely to be appealing. The conference has a limited number of slots, and if attendees can see the same talk somewhere else, why should they come see you at this one? If you speak at a lot of events, be sure to note why this presentation is different.

- Don’t assume that your company’s name buys you cred. If you’re talking about something important that you have specific knowledge of because of what your company does, spell that out in the description.

- Present something relevant. If you’re presenting a new way to do something that others have been doing for a decade or more, you need an angle on it that’s fresh or an explanation for why it’s important now. The hot things are hot, the cold things are cold, but there are interesting problems in almost everything. One of your challenges as a proposer is to demonstrate that you understand that attendees might need an extra reason to pay attention to something that they might otherwise think of as “settled.”

- Avoid taking a scatter-shot approach to proposals if you submit more than one or two. Be focused, have something important to say on a worthwhile topic, and sell the topic (not just yourself).

Good luck, and we hope to see you there!

Feb 21st, 2009 | Janetti Chon

Ignite NYC III: speakers announced!

Janetti Chon

Updated with new speaker information.

Ignite NYC is a pocket-sized conference-like event for geeks, part of the family of Ignites that are held in different cities. Hundreds of geeks come out to drink, play, and listen to talks of any subject matter—just as long as they’re deemed striking. Ignites usually have two parts: a contest to start off the night, where people make things, and the talks, where presenters get 20 slides and five minutes to make their point!

Ignite NYC III

6:30pm - midnight

Rocketboom will kickoff the night with “Know Your Meme: The Game Show! Pwn, Win, or Fail!” Hosted by the cast of Know Your Meme: Jamiedubs, Elspethjane, and Yatta. The game show that tests your knowledge of all things Internet in just twenty questions and a lightning round.

Contestants: Rex Sorgatz, Gavin Purcell (Attack of the Show / Jimmy Fallon Show), Peter Rojas (Engadget / RCRD LBL), and Kelly Reeves (URLesque) vs. Michelle DeForrest, Bre Pettis, Caroline McCarthy, and Tim Shey.

6:30pm Happy Hour: $2 Buds and $5 mixed drink
7:30pm Know Your Meme: The Game Show! Pwn, Win, or Fail! with Rocketboom
8:30pm - Ignite Talks

Ignite Talk Speakers Confirmed!
Jen Bekman- “Overcrowded”
Alex Bisceglie- “DataVisualization: Muppet Fur Coats”
Dennis Crowley- “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Family Feud in Under 5 Minutes”
Cory Forsyth- “How to Piss Off the FCC”
Michael Galpert- “Images On the Internets Seem Realer Than They Are”
Andrew Hoppin - “NASA 2.0″
Jonathan Kahan- “Cutting Edge Technology: The Samurai Sword”
Jaki Levy- “How to Screw up Your Reputation Or the Reputation of Your Company Online”
Jooyoung Oh- “Unemployment 101″
David Overholt- “Fail Often”
Ed Purver- “A Show of Hands”
Scott Rafer- “An Overnight Success in Just 15 Years”
Britta Riley- “R&D-I-Y”
Karen Sandler- “Unchain My Heart”
Naveen Selvadurai- “In Case of FIre, Break Glass”
Rob Seward- “The Collective Unconscious of 1980s Florida”
Noah B. Zark- “Near Future Augmented Reality Systems”

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Facebook Group Page ::  Facebook Event Page :: Ignite NYC Webpage

Follow @ignitenyc ::  Subscribe to RSS

This event is going to rock! Bummed to miss it so have double extra fun that evening everyone!!

Feb 2nd, 2009 | Janetti Chon

NYC Community Report: Jeff Jarvis, BuzzMachine launches “What Would Google Do?”

Janetti Chon

Last week Jeff Jarvis of BuzzMachine (writer, professor, blogger and media guru) launched his new book: What Would Google Do?

Publisher Harper Collins describes it as such:

In a book that’s one part prophecy, one part thought experiment, one part manifesto, and one part survival manual, internet impresario and blogging pioneer Jeff Jarvis reverse-engineers Google—the fastest-growing company in history—to discover forty clear and straightforward rules to manage and live by. At the same time, he illuminates the new worldview of the internet generation: how it challenges and destroys, but also opens up vast new opportunities. His findings are counterintuitive, imaginative, practical, and above all visionary, giving readers a glimpse of how everyone and everything—from corporations to governments, nations to individuals—must evolve in the Google era.

Along the way, he looks under the hood of a car designed by its drivers, ponders a worldwide university where the students design their curriculum, envisions an airline fueled by a social network, imagines the open-source restaurant, and examines a series of industries and institutions that will soon benefit from this book’s central question.

The result is an astonishing, mind-opening book that, in the end, is not about Google. It’s about you.

Jeff’s been working on this book for a while and he presented some of his thinking, and relevant case studies at last fall’s Web 2.0 Expo New York. Co-presented with BusinessWeek, take a look at the pearls of wisdom Jeff shared with our attendees in his session: What Would Google Do? How Media Must Revolutionize Their Thinking.

And if you’re in NY tomorrow for 2009’s inaugural NY Tech Meetup then you’ll get a special treat as Jeff will present a book talk. The rest of NYTM will focus on the theme: “Mobile Meets Social” and there is a great line up of East Coast companies that will demo for your favor:

Peek (the award winning email device for everyone)
Xtify (the API for location-based apps)
OMICU (OMG you’ll love this)
Mobile Commons (the SMS back-end for some of the world’s most important campaigns)
Coovents (where’s the cheap beer?)
Flixwagon (are you live-casting this?)
&
viaPlace (the platform for marking things around you)

Web 2.0 Expo conference chairs Jen Pahlka and Brady Forrest will also be attending the meetup, so stop by, say hello and let them know your thoughts.

Have fun NY. Miss you & wish I could be there!

~ Janetti

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