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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.

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