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"Here's Mashable's latest round-up of upcoming Web 2.0 events, parties, and conferences.  \nJune 3, 2008: The newest Mixergy Forum teaches startups how to get funded. It's led by investors who fund early-stage companies and entrepreneurs who have been through the process.  It will occur tomorrow in Santa Monica, CA.  Save $25 off by clicking here for the details.\n\nJune 3, 2008: The 11th Under the Radar will feature 32 emerging startups in the following areas: advertising, casual gaming, commerce, measurement tools, messaging, mobile applications and tools, publishing, search, rich internet apps, search, social Media/networking, virtual communities, video, web design tools, and widgets and desktop enhancements.  We're currently holding a Caption Contest for tickets to the event!  Get your answers in quickly because the lucky winners will be chosen soon :)\n\nJune 9, 2008: This year's European Directory Marketplace 2008 (EDM08) conference, Search in the Mobile Era, will be held on June 9th, 2008 in London, and will focus on the explosive mobile search market. The EDM08 conference sessions will cover information service providers, advertising, operators, technology, and content.  More information and a discount code is posted in our EDM08 announcement post.\n\nJune 9-10, 2008: Our advertising provider, Federated Media, is holding a Conversational Marketing Summit in New York City.  It's time to reclaim our brands online, and to declare marketers a full and fair participant in the burgeoning conversation that is the online media world.  \n\nJune 9-11, 2008: Graphing Social Patterns East is an indispensable conference for technology decision-makers, executives, product strategists, entrepreneurs, marketers and application developers who want to exploit the hottest trend on the Internet.\nSign up for GSP East to learn techniques for building viral applications, how to reach an audience, marketing and advertising strategies for networked worlds, building trust in a community, what's next on the horizon for Facebook and MySpace, where the next wave of users is coming from and how to reach them, best of breed tools for developing, hosting, and supporting social networking apps, monetizing techniques for turning traffic into profits, protecting privacy and security while still maintaining an open social network, and more.\nA 15% off discount is available for Mashable readers \u2014 just visit our GSP announcement post.\n\nJune 9-12, 2008: Enterprise 2.0 is the largest gathering for people ready to reinvent the way work is done.  Whether you are leading the effort or exploring your options for bringing social tools and 2.0 technologies, like wikis, team workspaces, blogs, unified communications, enterprise search, software as a service and social networks to your business, Enterprise 2.0 supports you through visionary keynotes, sessions, case studies and a Demo Pavilion featuring the latest technologies from established leaders and innovative start-ups.  Register Today using code CMBVEB06 and save $100 or get a free Demo Pavilion pass:  http://www.enterprise2conf.com/\n\nJune 13, 2008 Join casual gamers and social networking gamers at the Social Gaming Summit at the UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center, San Francisco, CA. The Social Gaming Summit is a one day conference focused on the intersection of casual gaming, immersive worlds, and social networking. Games are becoming one of the most popular activities within social networks and game developers continue to spend increasing amounts of energy figuring out how to leverage and apply the growth in social networking to the games they are developing. The conference will bring together leaders in the social networking and gaming spaces to share insights into the convergence of these worlds.  Save 10% off the registration cost \u2014 just get all the details here.\n\nJune 18, 2008: The Online Community Unconference is a gathering of online community practitioners - managers, developers, business people, tool providers, investors - to discuss experience and strategies in the development and growth of online communities, and will be held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. Those involved in online community development (and social software in general) share many common challenges: community management, tools, marketing, business models, legal issues. As we have found with our past events, the best source of information on all of these challenges is other knowledgeable practitioners.  Save $15 when registering through Mashable!\n\nJune 18, 2008: StartupSF is an event that is held every other month that is designed to help Web 2.0 and Start-Ups \u201Ckick-start\u201D their business.  The next StartUp SF is schedule for Wednesday, June 18th from 6 to 9 PM in the 8th Floor Caf\u00E9 at the offices of Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe (@ 405 Howard Street, San Francisco).  The speaker of the evening will be the famous Brian Solis.  \n\n\nJuly 2-4, 2008: IIR's Mobile Social Networks &amp; UGC has been specifically designed for mobile operators, mobile community platform firms, software &amp; technology providers and content/media companies to share ideas, discuss future trends and establish a common view of getting the most value out of mobile communities and User Generated Content strategies. Delegates will benefit from best-practice perspectives over a three day period offering a programme packed with case studies, roundtable discussions, an interactive pre-summit workshop as well as numerous networking and information-sharing opportunities.  Save 10% if you use the information provided in Mashable's IIR Mobile Social Networks &amp; UGC announcement post.\n\nJuly 17, 2008: At Twiistup, connect with the LA tech &amp; media communities, check out some hot start-ups, and enjoy this huge summer evening event.  Register now to demo your company. Tickets are now on sale.  And guess what?  Pete Cashmore is on the showoff selection panel. The deadline for showoff submissions is this week (May 15), so submit your startup today!\n\nAugust 10-12, 2008: Mashable is pleased to announce that we are a sponsor of Affiliate Summit 2008 East, which is taking place August 10-12 in Boston and expects about 2,500 attendees.  The keynote speaker will be Cory Booker, Mayor of Newark, NJ.  Affiliate Summit Inc. is the premier affiliate marketing conference and was founded in 2003 by affiliate marketing industry veterans, Shawn Collins and Missy Ward to serves the affiliate marketing professional community.  Affiliate marketers know not to miss this event.  Find out how to save 15% off.\n\nAugust 14-16, 2008:  The New Media Expo is the world's most popular convention for online audio and video creators and will be held at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The Expo is a hands-on, exciting, \"how-to\" event with practical conference sessions about how to produce high-quality online audio and video content, grow a loyal audience, and market or monetize that content in creative ways."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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