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"Here's Mashable's latest round-up of upcoming Web 2.0 events, parties, and conferences.  \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.  More information can be found on our StartupSF page.\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.  \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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