NOTE: Original Post by Kim Kochaver on November 13, 2008

Anyone who has been to more than one conference knows the check-in drill: badge, materials, branded pen and a token tote bag to lug around said materials. If you’re lucky, you might score a logoed squishy ball.
Last week’s Web 2.0 summit had a surprising and nice twist on this routine and gave attendees “Giving Cards†from Donors Choose instead of tchothkies. Featured here on the FM blog about a year ago, Donors Choose taps into technology to connect individual donors directly to teachers with modest needs – a new rug for their kindergarten floor, science books or a new projector.

The FM summit attendees pooled their giving cards ($30 each) and helped an urban classroom in St. Paul Minnesota get closer to their goal of starting a chess program for inner-city kids. They’re still a few bucks short if you feel the urge!

Tags: philanthropy

Hiya everyone,

We’re consolidating our Facebook pages to make it easier for us to share information with you. If you’re a fan of our “Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco” & “Web 2.0 Expo Europe” pages, we’re making a switch…

Sorry for any trouble - but really, it’s not that much trouble… please click and fan us here @ “Web 2.0 Expo”

It’ll be worth it. Really!

~ Janetti Chon
Community Manager

Tags: facebook, web2expo

Thank you to our great photographer James Duncan Davidson and Animoto for putting this video slideshow together for us.

Tags: web2summit

Yesterday, the team kicked off Web 2.0 Summit, Expo’s executive companion event. So far, awfully impressive. I’ll try to provide what tidbits I can between meetings and production duties over the next couple of days. First off, John Doerr just offered a great list: 10 things a start up should do in the economy:

Great advice for start-ups and established businesses alike. More soon.

The fifth annual Web 2.0 Summit had a killer line up of speakers and guests yesterday. Main room sessions, conversations and activities are being filmed. Check it out: so far Doerr, Meeker, Lessig and Brilliant are up, Yang coming soon.

As the team gears up this week to present the fifth Web 2.0 Summit, our San Francisco thought-leadership conference, I wanted to take a moment to issue a heartfelt thank you to everyone who attended Web 2.0 Expo Europe. And that includes the many folks who couldn’t take the trip out to Berlin but still managed to participate remotely via bed-blogging, retweeting and pre-event support.

I can confidently say we had a hugely successful & completely fabulous event – garnered from your feedback, testimonials, and the overall positive energy that lived at the BCC during the three days of our conference and expo.

A few days of finally catching up on bad American TV and I feel almost human again.

Thank you guests, speakers, blog partners, media members, sponsors, exhibitors and the TechWeb & O’Reilly Media event team.

Thank you Tim, Jen, Brady & bloggers for a phenomenal roundtable discussion.

Thank you Berlin Partner, BCC, SoundCloud for the reception music, our VC judges and startups that participated in Startup Ignite, Rama Gottfried for the virtual break rooms, our blogger mavens who helped us execute our Blogging Web 2.0 Expo Europe outreach program, all the bloggers that participated, PitchStop, BarCamp Berlin, and the larger Web community in Europe who made this event come to life.

It was the combination of all the little things that turned this into such a great event - including the beautiful sunny weather we had.

A simple request for you - please provide us with your feedback. Leave a comment, send the team an email… let us know how your experience was.

See this post for details on presentations and video recordings of our keynotes and Startup Ignite.

Our PR team has posted some event articles and videos to our news & coverage page. And our amazing bloggers have done a phenomenal job with sharing their articles – I’ll be posting their details on this blog during the course of this week.

Stay tuned… and subscribe!
More great content to come.

And we welcome you to join us for Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco (March 31 - April 3, 2009)

Sincerely,
~ Janetti

Submitting a proposal to any of our Web 2.0 Expo events is a simple process:

We typically open to receive submissions several months in advance of each show, so, first, join our newsletter to get updates on participation deadlines. You can choose to receive information on your show of choice or all of our upcoming events; its up to you.

When you’re ready to submit a proposal to a particular show, check the website and there will be a link to our online submissions form. Since emails get lost and we received hundreds of submissions, we use this online database to capture everything. We hate losing proposals as much as you hate us losing them.

There you will find information about session formats, conference tracks, and concepts that we plan to explore, which might help you to tailor your proposal for a specific audience or focus on a certain subject.

Have questions about writing your proposal? You might want to take a look at a blog post our program chair Jennifer Pahlka wrote on tips for writing speaking proposals. Let us help you, help us get the best content possible!

Once you’ve submitted your proposal will be reviewed by our committee and we’ll inform you if your topic is a good fit.

We look forward to receiving your great ideas and hope to see you at our next Web 2.0 Expo!

Tags: proposals

Dear Sponsors & Exhibitors of Web 2.0 Expo Europe,

On behalf of the organizing team and our attendees - thank you for the contributions and support you provided to our event. You brought with you not only exciting new Web 2.0 tools, technologies and know-how but your presence showed a positivity about the potential for Web in a global environment that is muddled by concern.

As conference co-chair Jennifer Pahlka explained to me (and others at the event) - with all that is happening in our economies today, companies are going to need to start utilizing the advantages of scalability, reach and efficiencies that Web 2.0 brings.

Web 2.0 Expo Europe last week was a fabulous event - dynamic, networked, intelligent and community-driven. Your participation was pivitol in fueling the connections, learnings and experiences of everyone in attendance.

Thank you.

We hope you enjoyed your time with us and look forward to working with you again in the future.

~ Your team

Tags: w2eb

UPDATE: Click the links to go directly to watch keynote videos and Startup Ignite.

I sent a tweet out last week but a quick note to those who are unaware, our speaker presentations can be accessed off our homepage or via this direct. They can also be accessed on Slideshare.net with the tag web2expoeu08.

[and no more tag jokes please, we know there were WAY too many. maybe i was simply crowdsourcing tag ideas for future events... ]

If you don’t find the presentations you’re looking for, go back to Crowdvine and please send a note to the speaker, they may not have provided it to us yet.

We officially filmed keynotes and Startup Ignite and we’ll get the videos up as soon as possible (and then I’ll update this post).

But you can find tons of other coverage, including videos, on our news page.

Thanks!

Tags: w2eb

If you look out of the front doors of the Berliner Congress Center, you will see a black Ford S-Max parked right there. And it is there for a reason. Arne Hulstein has brought the car to the Web 2.0 Expo to give startups, new companies and people with great ideas a platform to promote their ideas on some great international blogs with a great audience in the Netherlands and Germany.

So, how do you get your pitch online? Head over to twitter and follow either @arnehulstein or @ernohannink. And then send them a message explaining who you are, what you do and what you want to pitch. That can get you into our car and onto the blogs. We will be there tuesday to thursday, so you do not have to miss out on any of your speakers. Just let us know what you want to do and we will get you sorted out.

Pitch to a broader audience, make a pitchstop.

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See original post on Pitchstops… and/or DM @w2e_europe08 for any questions/comments/inquiries