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# Getting Social at Web 2.0 Expo Berlin
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2008/09/getting_social_at_web_20_expo/
- Published: 2008-09-28T08:56:16.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T14:19:09.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: conferences, events, social networks, w2eb, Web 2.0 Expo Berlin

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Many publishing businesses are heavily involved with the events business too, and I find the growing use of the web to support conferences before they occur increasingly fascinating. In a blog post earlier in the week, Janetti Chon outline the \[online initiatives they’re using to support Web 2.0 Expo Berlin\](http://blog.web2expo.com/2008/09/dear-europe/) this year. 

There’s a \[social network for the event at Crowdvine\](http://webexberlin2008.crowdvine.com/). I first saw these springing up for conferences last year, and they’re a really excellent way of identifying in advance contacts who will be at the event. Here’s \[my profile in the network\](http://webexberlin2008.crowdvine.com/profiles/30631).

There’s a whole series of satellite events around the conference (not unlike the ones you see at our party conferences in the UK, I suppose), including a \[BarCamp\](http://barcampberlin3.mixxt.org/), which are being gathered together under the banner of \[Berlin Web Week\](http://berlinwebweek.de/). 

And then there’s the \[blogger outreach programme\](http://blog.web2expo.com/2008/09/blogging-web-20-expo-europe/), of which I am a part. That’s why I have a handy-dandy \[discount code for Web 2.0 Expo Berlin\](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2008/09/web\_20\_expo\_berlin.html), that you can use to save 35% off the registration price. Just use the code webeu08gr9 when you \[register\](https://en.oreilly.com/webexberlin2008/public/register). I’d really like to get some blogger outreach going with some of RBI’s events, so I’m finding my participation in the programme an educational experience…