• the BarCamp International UXcamp on the 29. and 30.5. (more…)
• the Mobile Social Shopping Meetup Mobile Social Shopping on the 31.5. (more…)
• the congress webinale from the 31.5. to the 2.6. (more…)
• the webinale Party and the Internet Film Fest webcuts on the 1.6. (more…)
• the Social Media, HR and Recruiting Meetup Social Media & HR on the 1.6. (mehr…)
• the Accel Internet Networking Dinner Accel Internet Dinner on the 1.6. (more…)
• the Social Web Breakfast Social Web Breakfast am 2.6. (more…)
• the Deutsche-Startups-Networkevent Echtzeit on the 2.6. (more…)
• the mediapolitical media.net Event on the 3.6.
• the Searchengine and Social Media Workshop on the 3.6. (more…)
• the BarCamp ProductCamp Berlin on the 5.6. (more…)
• the HighScalability conference BerlinBuzzWords on the 7. and 8.6. (more…)
• the networking meetup UdL Digital on the 7.6. (more…)
• the Berlin Google Technology User Group meetup Berlin GTUG on the 7.6. (more…)
• the Mobile Monday on the 7.6. (more…)
• the meetup of the UXBookClub on the 8.6. (more…)
• the Podcast Wednesday on the 9.6. (more…)
• the closing event of BerlinWebWeek 2010 Twittwoch & BerlinWebNight on the 9.6. (more…)

The BerlinWebNight as the NetworkingEvent and closing party of the BerlinWebWeek 2010 will start after the Twittwoch in the Homebase Lounge. Twittkickers (this time no normal Twittwoch) will start around 19:00, after 20:00 we will be networking and partying!

One thing is for sure though: a LOT is happening in Berlin in the first half of this year – to name only the big events – just recently the re:publica, then the next, shortly before the BerlinWebWeek the droidcon, directly after the BerlinWebWeek the ITProfits and the LinuxTag… Berlin is the German internet capital.

Aka-Aki – mobile Startup
Chocri – customized chocolate online
Compuccino – social media agency
Jovoto – crowdsourcing platform
Palabea -language learning network
Sternwald -consultancy
Mufin – music startup
Smeet – 3D entertainment
Ralf Otto Tax Consultants
Berlin Partner – be Berlin – Berlin’s economic development agency
Germany Trade and Invest – foreign trade & inward investment agency
Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications – R&D in Information Technology

We will have a Berlin Night on the 5th of May in the ROE Club, here is the FB Event.

Berliner Messegemeinschaftsstand organisiert durch media.net und Berlin Partner auf der dmexco 2009

Die dmexco – digital marketing exposition & conference öffnet in diesem Jahr erstmals ihre Tore auf dem neuen Nordgelände der Koelnmesse. Unter dem Motto “Create Effects” steht die dmexco 2009 ganz im Zeichen digitaler Kreativität und Effizienz.
Für Unternehmen der Hauptstadtregion organisieren Berlin Partner und media.net einen Gemeinschaftsstand zu günstigen Konditionen. Begleiten Sie uns nach Köln! Bereits zugesagt haben Berlin.de, Metaversum, dotBERLIN und moviepilot.
Ein besonderes Highlight: Mit dem Gemeinschaftsstand wird auch gleichzeitig der neue be Berlin Hauptstadtstand eingeweiht. Finanziert wird das Projekt mit Mitteln des europäischen Fonds für regionale Entwicklung (EFRE) und des Landes Berlin.

BERLIN.digital@dmexco – der Messegemeinschaftsstand der Hauptstadtregion Berlin-Brandenburg am 23. & 24. September 2009 auf der dmexco in Köln.

Info
info@medianet-bb.de
messe@berlin-partner.de

On the 31st of March the Webmonday Silicon Valley took place, i.e. the Webmontag web 2.0 Expo edition. I do not exactly know, how many people were there, I suppose around 40 all in all. It took place in Citizen Space, a co-working place in San Francisco’s city centre I have already used on previous trips, both as a place to get some work done and as the place where the previous webmondays were held, which Berlin Partner cosponsored. There were organized by Tim Bonnemann, the inventor of the Webmontag concept.
I very much enjoy Webmondays, be it in Berlin or here in SanFran, you get to network easily and the presentations are always short and to the point, letting you make the maximum out of your time. This time Germany Trade and Invest (GTAI) and Berlin Partner presented their services for investors expanding to Germany. Metaversum showed their 3D World Twinity and the Fraunhofer HHI showcased their video retrieval technologies, they were all going to be at the expo too. I found doodle, a Swiss company very interesting. They allow you to solve the problem of coordinating meeting or conf call times with people using different calenders. They have an outlook integration and opend their API recently (it goes on for 2 more weeks, you can win a trip to Switzerland) and I suppose to see even more of them in the future.
A project I will check out for the blogs I am contributing to is apture. They seem to have found an amazing way to improve the usability (surfing experience) of websites, integrating multimedia to your site in a very easy to use way. They are interesting for bloggers and publishers alike. Check out the lower part of their site to experience it. It’s great! There was camera running, I hope to be able to show some video footage soon.

Anthony Barba, Managing Director of iliketotallyloveit from BerlinWebWeek on Vimeo.

Gary Lin, Managing Director of Glispa, Berlin, Germany from BerlinWebWeek on Vimeo.

Berlin will be present for the 3rd time in April 2009 at the web 2.o Expo in the Silicon Valley. Berlin Partner organized a booth for the capital region, which they will use together with the economic development agency of Brandenburg ZAB to market to international companies for an expansion to Berlin and Brandenburg i.e. Germany and Europe. Additionally Solidground and Ralf Otto Steuerberatung offer their services for a market entry in Europe to companies willing to expand.
Solidground ist specialised in consulting and business development, particularly for German-American projects and Ralf Otto Tax Consultants is specialised in helping international clients get advice and support in all matters of tax and finance.

At the booth Berlin will be presented in the virtual realm as well. Metaversum will show their project twinity, a 3-dimensional virtual Berlin, which you can explore with your avatar. As opposed to Second Life Metaversum counts on connecting the real world with the virtual one as close as possible, i.e. using real names and show Berlin as it is. The Berlin company works on models of Singapur and London as well.

During that week many events will take place in and around the Moscone Center – we would like to mention one particularly: the Silicon Valley Webmontag – Webmonday (on a tuesday ;-). We will report from there.

BerlinBlase hatte einige der events auf einer Karte zusammengestellt, Nicole Simon schrieb auf Crueltobekind darüber. Zanox hat ein Video gedreht, daß Impressionen von einigen events der BerlinWebWeek zusammenstellt:

Es waren soviele, dass es unmöglich war, an allen teilzunehmen, wie Nico Lumma schrieb. Das zeigt auch das MIKI, dass Kai produziert hat in schönen Bildern. Fastenyourseatbelts hat die Woche als Anlaß genutzt, um mich zu fragen, wie sich solche events mit Stadtmarketing, Ansiedlung und Tourismus ergänzen. Zum Hören gab es auch etwas, Radio Fritz hat ein kurzes Interview mit mir in der Sendung Trackback gebracht. Auf Podcast.de gibt es auch ein ausführliches Interview mit Nico Lumma über einge der events zum mithören.
Es gibt eigentlich soviele Links dazu, dass ich hier kurz einige weitere Seiten nennen will: Stylewalker, Dittes, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Dagger, Berlin Kollektiv, Twemes – Tweets mit BerlinWebWeek, Fotos auf Flickr, Berliner Zeitung und vieles andere mehr.

Berlin Partner wird zusammen mit der Zukunftsagentur Brandenburg auf einem Stand auf dem Messeteil der Web 2.0 Konferenz in San Francisco vertreten sein. Die Berliner und Brandenburger Wirtschaftsförderer boten schon 2007 und 2008 Unternehmen aus der Region die Möglichkeit, mit ihrer Firma auf dem Messestand präsent zu sein und werden dies auch 2009 wieder tun. Sie werben um ausländische Investoren, die sie in die Hauptstadt der Startups locken wollen. Was könnte ein besseres Testimonial für Berlin sein, als ein Gespräch mit Unternehmern, die dort bereits ihr Startup aufbauen?

Die Hauptstadtregion bietet dafür ihren Unternehmen die Möglichkeit auf eine sehr preiswerte Weise im Silicon Valley präsent zu sein. Die Webunternehmen, die im März zur Web 2.0 Expo kommen, können gegen ein geringes Entgelt Teil eines gemeinsamen Hauptstadtstandes werden, also ihr Unternehmen dort vertreten, erhalten ein Poster am Stand und die Möglichkeit, ihre Broschüren auszulegen. Anfragen (noch 3 Plätze da, Reisekosten müssen selbst getragen werden, first come first served) können hier gestellt werden.
Ergänzung 10.2.2009:
Die web 2.o Expo bietet zusätzlich zum Berlin Messestand kostenlose Möglichkeiten Euer Startup zu promoten – hier hat sie Janetti aufgeschrieben.

To get an overview about who is who and who is doing what in the German (speaking) Startup scene, a regular visit of Deutsche Startups is recommended. The portal, whose editorial office is located in Berlin, publishes a daily newsletter, offers a huge list of existing web startups, a long list of potential investors and an equally interesting list with companies already in the “dead pool“.

For entrepreneurs and employees equally interesting is the Jobboard with jobs for interns. The shareholders of the portal are chief editor Alexander Hüsing, Stefan Vosskötter (managing director of DS Media and founder of „Webnews“) as well as the European Founders Fund (a.k.a. the Samwer brothers) and Holtzbrinck Ventures.
Since the end of 2008 on one can experience Deutsche Startups also offline, Alexander Hüsing has established a series of events called Echtzeit, which has been organized with the help of sponsors already twice in Berlin. I was on the 3rd of February at Echtzeit II Berlin in the premises of Zanox with over 170 other guests. The topic of the day was “External Financing vs. Bootstrapping”, very suitable for the economic situation of the first quarter of 2009. Since the event is an invitation only event the percentage of entrepreneurs and investors was very high among the guests. I can only recommend to use Deutsche Startups.de online (if you know a little German) and offline to get introduced to what is happening in Germany and German speaking regions in the web 2.0 area.

Of course there are presentations, for which you can put your name down in a Wiki and then you have the chance to present your ideas, your questions or success stories to an interested audience.

I met an interesting mixture of innovative companies as barcoo, fresh ideas – yes, I could imagine paying 3 EUR/month for a very good blog about Berlin – and Networking offers in and with Asia by a nice Berliner (Mario Behling).