I made the mistake of selecting tags that are actually a little too long to be useful on Twitter…

Officially, we printed in our program guide that we will be using “web2expoeu” and “web2expoeu08″

For some reason this made sense at the time.

Then I got a suggestion from one our blog partners that we should use “w2eb“… thanks Arne

I’d been so focused on trying to make everyone understand that Web 2.0 Expo Europe was an event for ALL Europeans (and beyond) that I neglected to consider B for Berlin.

So please feel free to use any of the following tags for any social network:

web2expoeu

web2expoeu08

w2eb

Thanks!
~ Janetti

Hi Berlin.

I’d love to meet more of the folks in and around this city so I plan to camp out at Coffee Karma in Friedrichshain this Sunday, 12 Oktober from 14:00 – 18:00.

Please stop in and say hello, have a cup of coffee, tea, bionade, *insert beverage of choice here* …

Coffee Karma, Sonntagstrae 30, 10245 Berlin (close to Ostkreuz)

Hope to see you there.

~ Janetti

Follow Web 2.0 Expo Europe’s official Twitter account for event-specific updates!

We’ll follow everyone back who wants to be a part of this event community so you can direct message or @ (reply) to us.

How do you send a DM?
Formula: “d w2e_europe08 message”

OR send us a public comment and we’ll find your message.

Formula: “@w2e_europe08 message”

*tweet***tweet***tweet***

Image courtesy of Laughing Squid

Thursday, Oct 9th at 7 p.m.
Dachkammer
Simon-Dach-Str. 39
10245 Berlin
030 2961673

Hosts:

Matt Mullenweg, Founder, WordPress / Automattic

Janetti Chon, Community Manager, Web 2.0 Expo

Thank you Yamile Yemoonyah for organizing this

Bloggers unite!

Update: 35% startup-dedicated discount available. Please see Startup Ignite page for details.

Calling all European Startups!

We’ve just launched an evening session dedicated to startups – opening day on the main stage.

Deadline for submissions is Friday, October 10th

We know it’s literally THIS week but we wanted to do something special for the startup community and have been able to get some pretty esteemed judges to decide on the final presenters:

Lukasz Gadowski, CEO of Team Europe Ventures Ltd
Mike Butcher, Editor of TechCrunch UK
Christophe Maire, VP Nokia (founder of gate5 & Plazes)
Brady Forrest, Web 2.0 Expo Co-chair & O’Reilly Radar

See details here: www.web2expo.com/europe/startup

SUBMIT! Let’s have some startup entertainment fun

It was brought to our attention that to attend Web 2.0 Expo Europe you may require an invitation letter to secure a visitor’s visa.

We can help!

Please leave a comment with your country of residence and someone from our team will follow up to request additional information.

Thanks!

Hi all,

Sorry if you had difficulty recently in getting into our social networking site Crowdvine for Web 2.0 Expo Europe. There was a backend problem and we got it fixed last night.

There should be no more problems, but if there are, please leave a comment on this post so we can address it immediately!

Thanks much!

Web 2.0 Expo Europe is the gathering place for the European community and beyond to come together and discuss whats happening, and whats about to happen, on the Web and in our community. In that spirit, we offer you our Community Lounge a place to hang out, network and hold meetings.

Some details:
- Wireless available in the room
- Conference style seating for up to 30 people
- Caf style workspace seating
- Power for up to 15 laptops (first come, first serve)

If you have a community group or meeting that you would like to hold during the event, leave a comment on this post with details of your group and/or meeting details. We’re offering up 1-hour meeting times for groups up to 30. If you want to hold impromptu or smaller meetings, this space is for you.

This is a letter to our Web 2.0 Expo Europe community.

We are extremely excited to be returning to Berlin for the second year. This year we renamed our conference Web 2.0 Expo Europe to emphasize our efforts to create a robust, content-strong, and community-oriented pan-European event.

Led by blog mavens Suw Charman, Nicole Simon, and Stephanie Booth we launched a bloggers’ outreach initiative. And I want to say a heartfelt THANK YOU to these ladies and the 80 bloggers, spanning across the European continent and languages, who we’ve got on board supporting Web 2.0 Expo Europe. There is much news on the horizon…

For the bloggers in our program we’re putting together a special roundtable discussion with Tim O’Reilly and conference co-chairs Jennifer Pahlka and Brady Forrest – a forum for Q&A and idea-sharing. We’ll also be coordinating more speaker interviews for you all to share with your readers.

We’ve officially launched Crowdvine, the social network for Web 2.0 Expo Europe. Check it out, check it out. Join, network, ask questions, post job requests, find friends, mingle online… and take advantage by meeting the folks you’ll be seeing next month in Berlin!

Our friends at Berlin Partners has launched Berlin Web Week – a way to embrace all the community events happening during and around Web 2.0 Expo Europe. Click here to see what events are listed. Submit your own events here!

Barcamp Berlin3 is being held the weekend before Expo (18th & 19th). 945 members on the wiki and exploding! They are doing such an amazing job – see their blog. And yes, I am taking avid notes on their community-building efforts.

So on a personal note, I’m relatively new to the blogosphere and my writing has been more event-reactive then pro-active to date. So I want to apologize to you dear community that this blog has been so New York focused in the past few months.

The O’Reilly Media and TechWeb teams that put together the inaugural Web 2.0 Expo New York show is the same that is pulling together Europe, and we’ve all been working really long hours planning, prepping and launching – for both shows simultaneously.

Will you accept no excuses?

Well, fear not. This letter is a precursor to great things to come. In a few short days I’ll be flying out to Berlin to be community ground-support leading up to the October 21-23 event. I want to hear your thoughts and take action based on your recommendations. The team here wants to engage with you… as what we’re building is FOR YOU.

Contact any one of us for questions.

Leave your comments on this blog.

Follow us on Twitter (@w2e_europe08) to get event updates, and to DM us any thoughts.

Dear Europe. Thank you for your patience. I look forward to the weeks ahead!

~ Janetti

Hi! If you haven’t registered for Web 2.0 Expo Europe, here’s a friendly nudge to let you know that early bird registration ends on Thursday, September 25.

Prices will go up a bit and we want to make sure you sign up if you’ve been thinking about attending.

Here’s the link to registration. Content updates are on the site and I’ll be posting more in the coming days and weeks leading up to the event.

Hope you can make it out!

~ Janetti

ps – See the news & coverage from Web 2.0 Expo New York to see the caliber of event we’re bringing over to Europe