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polymedia
by Daniel 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

Some sentences to illustrate the meaning of polymedia as requested. Previously when a Filipino child told his mother how he has spent the money she sent him by text it was assumed that this was because text was the cheapest option. In a situation of polymedia where several cheap options are available his mother might think it is because he is avoiding the quarrel he thinks they will end up having if he directly speaks to her by phone. Previously he could never find a way to say how much he loved her, but with polymedia he found he could use other communications for everyday stuff, and that released texting to be used for that little `I love you' to be sent just before he went to bed. Or as in Gerson's work:- It wasn't so much that he had dumped her, she had seen that coming, but to do this by email, which is what he uses for work. Given that we live with polymedia, couldn't he at least have come onto the webcam and done it face to face like a man. There will be whole chapters on this sort of stuff, in the book on polymedia that Mirca and I are finishing off at the moment Danny Miller

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APSA IT and Politics book award
by Wright Scott Dr (PSI) 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

Hi all, I thought I would let everyone know that the 2009 APSA award for the best book on IT and Politics went to Stephen Coleman and Jay Blumler for their (CUP) book: "The Internet and Democratic Citizenship". I think the committee's endorsement provides a very useful summary of its qualities: "With their book The Internet and Democratic Citizenship: Theory, Practice and Policy, Stephen Coleman and Jay Blumler present a welcome and very cogent antidote to the less than sober enthusiasm of early techno-optimists. They do so while retaining a well-informed and reasonable basis for “a more deliberative democracy” unencumbered by the “excessive” or “fetishised” demands of deliberative democracy as an “end in itself.” The case they make uncovers, for example, the “autonomous, casual, and unstructured” discourse that is constitutive of much informal and yet authentic democratic practice. The book, which would make a wonderful addition to any class on e-governance, draws on an enormous literature of democratic theory, research and practice. It makes a fluent and elegant case for taking a range of online “public talk” more seriously. The distinguished authors retain a normative bent. And they call for concrete government policy and resources in support of sustaining and improving the function of the electronic public sphere as an extension of actual, results-producing democratic policy making. Coleman and Blumler are exhaustive, careful and probing when they examine the trade-offs presented by different dimensions of online deliberative behavior. The authors pay tribute to, and take seriously, a deliberative spirit in their own scholarly reflections. The book, which would make a wonderful addition to any class on e-governance, draws on an enormous literature of democratic theory, research and practice. It makes a fluent and elegant case for taking a range of online “public talk” more seriously. The distinguished authors retain a normative bent. And they call for concrete government policy and resources in support of sustaining and improving the function of the electronic public sphere as an extension of actual, results-producing democratic policy making. Coleman and Blumler are exhaustive, careful and probing when they examine the trade-offs presented by different dimensions of online deliberative behavior. The authors pay tribute to, and take seriously, a deliberative spirit in their own scholarly reflections. [...] The committee selected this book in recognition of the skillful and integrative manner in which Coleman and Blumler make the case for actively “shaping e-democracy” from above and below. Their cautious optimism is infectious because it is well informed and sustained by less well- known but important cases. Even a jaded scholar of the anti-deliberative mindset might want to rethink his or her position on the future of the Internet and democratic citizenship after reading this book." Many congratulations to them both for this well deserved award. Cheers, Scott

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Two job postings in Media and Cultural Studies at University of Wisconsin, Madison
by Jonathan Gray 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

I'm pleased to share the following job announcements with the group, the first of which may be of particular interest given that it calls for a digital/new media specialist. Please feel free to circulate. warm regards,Jonathan Gray The Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison seeks applicants at either the rank of Assistant Professor, tenure-track, or Associate Professor with tenure in Media and Cultural Studies, to begin August 2011. Ph.D. in a related field required prior to start of appointment. Tenure track candidates must show potential for excellence in scholarly research and teaching. Tenured appointees must have established record of excellence in research and teaching. Candidates will be expected to conduct research, develop and teach courses, and supervise graduate students in the critical analysis of digital and new media. Those with a demonstrated ability to combine methodological approaches are especially encouraged to apply. The successful candidate will actively participate and teach half of her/his courses in a new interdisciplinary program that seeks to enhance students’ media, visual, technology, and information literacies. See also http://commarts.wisc.edu. Please submit a CV and a letter detailing interests and capabilities, and arrange to have sent three letters of reference, to Professor and Digital Studies Initiative Chair Robert Glenn Howard, Digital Media Search, Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 821 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706. Electronic applications will not be accepted. The deadline to assure full consideration is November 14, 2010. EOE/AA. Employment may require a criminal background check. Unless confidentiality is requested in writing, information regarding the applicants must be released upon request. Finalists cannot be guaranteed confidentiality. The Department of Communication Arts is committed to building a culturally-diverse intellectual community and strongly encourages applications from women, ethnic minorities, and other underrepresented groups. Questions about the search may be directed to Professor Jonathan Gray at jagray3(a)wisc.edu The Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison seeks applicants for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in Media and Cultural Studies, to begin August 2011. Ph.D. in a related field required prior to start of appointment. Candidates will be expected to conduct research, develop and teach courses, and supervise graduate students in the critical/cultural analysis of television and electronic media with a specialization in at least one of the following: global media, gender and/or identity studies, or industry/production studies. Candidates must show potential for excellence in scholarly research and teaching. See also http://commarts.wisc.edu. Please submit a CV and a letter detailing interests and capabilities and arrange to have sent three letters of reference to Professor and Chair Susan Zaeske, Media and Cultural Studies Search, Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 821 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706. Electronic applications will not be accepted. The deadline to assure full consideration is November 14, 2010. EOE/AA. Employment may require a criminal background check. Unless confidentiality is requested in writing, information regarding the applicants must be released upon request. Finalists cannot be guaranteed confidentiality. The Department of Communication Arts is committed to building a culturally diverse intellectual community and strongly encourages applications from women, ethnic minorities, and other underrepresented groups. Questions about the search may be directed to Professor Mary Beltrán at mcbeltran(a)wisc.edu.

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Re: [Air-L] Voice-recorders or mobile phones for face-to-face interviews with young people?
by Colin Helb 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

Koen, I've used the basic "Voice Memos" app that comes preinstalled on the iPhone for a variety of field recording projects (interviews, sound collecting, etc.) and have been very happy with the results. What it may lack in clarity (and it is not much) it makes up for in convenience (I always have it with me). I guess your ultimate use of the recordings should dictate your decision. If you are planning to transcribe the recordings for your own notes for writing, the iPhone will work fine for you. If you are looking to edit and use the audio in an audio or video project, I'd suggest investing in a nice, small digital audio recorder. They're pretty inexpensive these days and are far from intrusive to the interviewee. Even in that situation, the iPhone app would probably work fine. The best recording device is the one you have with you when you need it. Hope that helps. Usually lurking, Colin -- Colin Helb, Ph.D. Asst. Professor of Communications Elizabethtown College 1 Alpha Dr., 206C Steinman Elizabethtown, PA 17022 717-361-1387 colin(a)colinhelb.com • colinhelb(a)gmail.com helbc(a)etown.edu • colinhelb.com

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Re: [Air-L] Voice-recorders or mobile phones for face-to-face interviews with young people?
by Matthew Bernius 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

On using the iPhone for recording of f2f interview, it can be done, but you *must* (and I stress *must*) use an external microphone -- which plugs into the earphone jack. As to the specific one to use, there are numerous options. On the higher end there is a product from "Blue" which runs about $80 (US) - http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/blues-new-and-improved-mikey-ipod-iphone… - though its probably too large for your needs. Another option would be a smaller tilting unit like this one - http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/cellphone/cee3/ (I've never tested it, so I can't speak on audio quality). You might also want to look at Livescribe pen recorders, which work quite well and are pretty unobtrusive (http://www.livescribe.com) - Matt ----------------------------- Matthew Bernius PhD Student | Cultural Anthropology | Cornell University | http://www.arts.cornell.edu/anthro/ Researcher At Large | Open Publishing Lab @ the Rochester Institute of Technology | http://opl.cias.rit.edu | @ritopl mBernius(a)gMail.com | http://www.waking-dream.com | @mattBernius

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by Daniel 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

First I wanted to introduce myself, having just joined this list. I have been working on internet studies since a book I published with Don Slater, The Internet: an Ethnographic Approach (Berg 2000). Most recently I completed a book Tales from Facebook, which is coming out with Polity in April 2011. More concretely I have included below a cross-posting which comes from a blog I have been running for some years with Haidy Geismar of NYU at www.materialworldblog.com <http://www.materialworldblog.com/> a few of whose postings may interest people on this list. In this particular case the posting may be unusual in that the primary purpose for posting is to let people know that we have proposed this term polymedia for general usage in the hope of creating some semantic consistency. But in addition I must admit I would also be interested to know if there are people on this list who a) see themselves as working specifically on this topic of polymedia or b) currently carrying out sustained ethnographic work (i.e. a year or more fieldwork) on social networking sites? Danny Miller POLYMEDIA Mirca Madianou (sociology, Cambridge) and Daniel Miller (anthropology, University College London) Academics should be very wary of neologisms that most often lead to esoteric obfuscation and confusion. But occasionally there is an overwhelming argument that something in the world has changed beyond recognition and beyond the capacity and semantics of language, such that the only effective way to clearly convey it is through this strategy. For this reason we make no apology for inventing the word 'polymedia'. The basic argument is quite simple. Until very recently most people wishing to communicate at a distance had a limited choice of media, and as a result they had to pay considerable attention to the cost and to the constraints imposed by the particular media they that were available to them for that communication. When transnational communication was mainly limited to letters and the sending of voice-recorded cassette tapes, then our evidence is that users were very conscious of the propensities of the media themselves in shaping their communications, as is evident, for example, in the extensive time lag between sending and receiving letters. In recent times, and for many people around the world this means the last year or two, (although we recognise for many other people this is still not yet the case) have finally reached a state where there exists a genuine proliferation of possibilities when it comes to communication between separated persons. Furthermore once the costs of the equipment and payment plan is spoken for, such as a computer, the ISP subscription or an annual phone plan, then the costs of any individual act communication itself becomes largely inconsequential. For almost any reader of this blog, but also for a typical school aged individual of a middle class income in pretty much any town anywhere, there may now exist a choice of mobile phone and internet based platforms such as voice calls, texting, email, instant messaging (IM), blogs, VOIP with or without webcam, photo and video sharing and social networking sites all readily available. New forms such as video messaging are on the horizon. We suggest that in such a situation the primary concern shifts from an emphasis on the constraints and affordances vis a vis a particular medium to an emphasis upon the social and emotional consequences of choosing between a plurality of media. The mere situation of polymedia changes the relationship between communication technology and society. The word polymedia seems to us more appropriate than alternative terms. Multimedia is now established as the term for situations, such as the use of webcam in videocalling, where several different forms of media are being used simultaneously and in direct relationship to each other. It would therefore be confusing to use that word for this proliferation of media. Polymedia might seem closer to terms such as multi-channel or multi-platform. But all such terms are based on an idea of hierarchy within media, that assume we can know what is properly a platform or a channel. One of the other effects of these recent developments is that users do not distinguish between such layering, or hierarchies. Various different devices are used in various combinations, so that Skype may be through a smartphone, or IM embedded within Facebook. So such terms have become themselves a source of confusion rather than clarity. We therefore need a term that simply describes this new state of the world, and the prefix `poly' from the Greek for many or much, seems entirely appropriate. So we do not apologise for inventing the word polymedia which we hope will become standardised. The basis for this development is fieldwork we have carried out in the Philippines and Trinidad. The work in the Philippines has concentrated on the relationships between mothers working in the UK and their left behind children in the Philippines. This will culminate in a forthcoming book, Madianou, M. and Miller, D. Technologies of love: migration and the polymedia revolution, and associated journal papers. Much of this is concerned with the way those at both ends of the communication utilise the entire range of possibilities and the parameters of difference in order to try and control the nature of that communication, for example to avoid argument, allow time to consider a response, express love and feel a sense of authenticity to content. Our work in Trinidad provides a comparative dimension regarding communication between transnational families in the UK and Trinidad and there is also a separate book just focusing on Facebook (Miller, D. Tales from Facebook, forthcoming Polity). The revelation of polymedia is obviously not simply a response to our own work. We can see parallel discussion in a wide range of recent publications. One such trajectory comes from sustained work on mediation in media studies associated with writings by Nick Couldry, Sonia Livingstone, Roger Silverstone, Lilie Chouliaraki, Mirca Madianou, Bolter and Grusin and others. Then within the more technical studies of media convergence in functionality and studies by Broadbent and others on the implications of this within family communication. The first proper and extremely helpful textbook in this area was recently published as Personal Connections in the Digital Age by Nancy Baym (2010) based on research in a number of disciplines. She highlights seven key parameters of difference, properties that may be shared or make for significant contrasts between each of these media. These are: interactivity, temporal structure, social cues, storage, replicabilty, reach and mobility. She then employs these parameters of difference to consider a wide range of facets of human communication including the degree to which we see media as more or less authentic in comparison to face-to-face interaction, the sense of community, identity, gender, veracity and the self. In contrast to this wide-angle view is the tight focus of a recently published book The Breakup 2.0 by the anthropologist Illana Gershon (2010). By examining which media people employ when breaking up a relationship, Gershon provides considerable and persuasive documentation of how people mistakenly presume what their partners intend by such choices and the various misunderstandings that follow. Chapter three of her book is a particularly good example of this perspective on the multiplicity of contemporary media. Gershon brings her own analytical terms to the table such as `idioms of practice' based on `media ideologies'. Her informants can be outraged almost as much by someone dumping them through an inappropriate, what they see as inhuman media, as the fact that they are being dumped. In our own research we are as impressed by the speed at which normativity and standardisation of expectation can form around new media, as Gershon is impressed by continued heterogeneity. Within a few months many people seem to have clear ideas about the implications of some new iteration of Facebook, or a combination of skype and webcam. In fact both these processes are important aspects of polymedia. What we would argue all these research has in common is this sense that the proliferation of new media and the movement of costs from foreground to background, as they become less prohibitive constitutes an unprecedented media ecology which also makes the social and moral aspects of media choice increasingly significant at the expense of the technological constraints and affordances. For these reasons we propose the adoption of a new term - polymedia.

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Eat, Cook, Grow: Ubiquitous Technology for Sustainable Food Culture in the City
by Marcus Foth 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Colleagues due to the withdrawal of one of our partner organisation (GFC...), an exciting opportunity has arisen to join a three year collaborative research project funded by the Australian Research Council: Eat, Cook, Grow: Ubiquitous Technology for Sustainable Food Culture in the City http://www.urbaninformatics.net/projects/food/ The project has been awarded AU$ 338,000 which will fund one postdoctoral fellow and two PhD students full-time for three years plus travel and project expenses. However, the ARC requires a co-investment of AU$ 16,000 per year over three years from a partner organisation. Public and private sector organisations are eligible, both in Australia or internationally. Universities outside Australia are eligible, too. The other partners are Queensland Health, and local in-kind only partners in Brisbane: Food Connect (eat), James St Cooking School (cook), CityFood Growers (grow). Benefits of joining: .. no proposal has to be written, the grant is pre-approved .. option for an eligible researcher to join the team as a Partner Investigator .. co-contributions will be spent at the discretion of the partner organisation .. R&D tax concessions may be available to some organisations If you are interested in joining this collaborative research grant, please reply to me off-list. Thank you. Best Regards marcus Links to our partners: http://www.health.qld.gov.au/ http://www.foodconnect.com.au/ http://www.jamesstcookingschool.com.au/ http://cityfoodgrowers.com.au/ http://www.arc.gov.au/ncgp/lp/lp_default.htm -- Assoc. Prof. Marcus Foth Principal Research Fellow Urban Informatics Research Lab Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J) 130 Victoria Park Road, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia Phone +61 7 313 x88772 - Fax x88238 - Office K506, KG m.foth(a)qut.edu.au - http://www.urbaninformatics.net/

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Learning Analytics & Knowledge: February 27-March 1, 2011 in Banff, Alberta
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Learning Analytics & Knowledge: February 27-March 1, 2011 in Banff, Alberta https://tekri.athabascau.ca/analytics/ The growth of data surpasses the ability of organizations to make sense of it. This concern is particularly pronounced in relation to knowledge, teaching, and learning. Learning institutions and corporations make little use of the data learners "throw off" in the process of accessing learning materials, interacting with educators and peers, and creating new content. In an age where educational institutions are under growing pressure to reduce costs and increase efficiency, analytics promises to be an important lens through which to view and plan for change at course and institutions levels. Corporations face pressure for increased competitiveness and productivity, a challenge that requires important contributions in organizational capacity building from work place and informal learning. Learning analytics can play a role in highlighting the development of employees through their learning activities. In enterprise settings, information flow and social interactions can yield novel insights into organizational effectiveness and capacity to address new challenges or adapt rapidly when unanticipated event arise. Thirdly, as we witness the expansion of learning and knowledge work beyond formal institutional boundaries, myriad platforms in the cloud hosting the activity of individuals will be providing/exchanging analytics. Advances in knowledge modeling and representation, the semantic web, data mining, analytics, and open data form a foundation for new models of knowledge development and analysis. The technical complexity of this nascent field is paralleled by a transition within the full spectrum of learning (education, work place learning, informal learning) to social, networked learning. These technical, pedagogical, and social domains must be brought into dialogue with each other to ensure that interventions and organizational systems serve the needs of all stakeholders. Learning Analytics 2011 will focus on integrating the technical and the social/pedagogical dimensions of learning analytics. Learning analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of data about learners and their contexts, for purposes of understanding and optimising learning and the environments in which it occurs Please direct any questions to gsiemens(a)gmail.com -------------------------------------- Caroline Haythornthwaite I will be using this @illinois email for a few more months for projects started at UIUC. However, if your email is in relation to my position as Director, SLAIS, UBC please use haythorn(a)interchange.ubc.ca

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PostDoc Position, France Telecom R&D, Social Networks analysis
by Thomas Couronné 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Hello The List, FranceTelecom R&D has a vacant postdoc position in social networks analysis/quantitative sociology/cognitive sciences in its sociology lab in Paris; description below; To apply, send CV+relevant paper+motivation letter to : thomas.couronne(a)orange-ftgroup.com & thomas.beauvisage(a)orange-ftgroup.com. Bests, Thomas --------> POST DOC POSITION <------------- Mission Research The mission concerns the analysis of the dynamics of the social link in the online communication. The mission joins within the framework of works on the various forms of sociability and their deployment on communication tools and online auto publication. The modeling of social graph allows drawing and analyzing large networks, to identify the communities which constitute them, and to unfold properties of nodes. These tools were recently applied successfully to the study of large social graphs, in particular built from phone calls or from online social platforms. A question still remains as for the qualification of the temporal evolution of these networks and these communities, beyond the comparison of snapshots of networks at the given time. The expected research consists in establishing metrics for the description of the evolution of the social networks, in particular the communities and linkage dynamics, by using the classic tools of networks analysis. The metrics eventually have to constitute a new axis of the social graphs understanding relative to their temporal dynamics. Once established, theses metrics have to help to focus the question of the nature of the links in the egocentered networks. They have to allow establishing a comparison of the various platforms, but also, within a platform data, to characterize the links according to the usage dynamics. Two axes will be processed by the candidate: - The temporal evolution of the social networks - The qualification and weightings of the links according to their properties, and users commitment dynamics Expected results The postdoc will: - Realize a review of literature on the recent works in analysis of social networks and on-line sociability (existing works, methods, tools) - Appropriate existing data and collect corpuses of data from Web (social networks platforms, user generated contents) - build relevant metrics & indicators for the analysis of the temporal dynamics of the online social links - Apply these indicators to the analysis of the temporal dynamics of egocentered networks, in a comparative approach - Apply these indicators to the various links between individuals to qualify these links (robustness, volatility, underlying dynamics of commitment) Profile The position is open to the PhD having defended their thesis for less than two years. Necessary skills - Phd in quantitative sociology, cognitive Sciences, complex systems - Experience in datamining and statistics - Experience in programming (python, matlab) - knowledge in social network analysis - Interest for telecoms - Multidisciplinary teamwork Wished additional skills - Web 2.0 Technologies - Familiar with databases (in particular MySQL) Modalities The wished beginning of mission: November, 2010 Duration: 12 months SALARY: >33KE B/annual depending on profile+variable part+group dividends Contact Thomas COURONNE E-mail: thomas.couronne(a)orange-ftgroup.com Thomas BEAUVISAGE E-mail: thomas.beauvisage(a)orange-ftgroup.com R*D Orange Labs TECH / SENSE laboratory 38-40 rue General Leclerc 92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux FRANCE Description of the company and the entity Research and development Orange Labs of the France Télécom Group The France Télécom Group has the ambition to supply to its customers the best of the technology, as soon as it is available, while taking into account the following technological generations. With more than 3700 researchers, scientists and engineers, the R*D of Orange Labs develops every year approximately 500 inventions for more than 8 300 deposited patents. Thanks to its anticipation, the R*D detects very early the evolutions and the major technological breaks, and the new usages. So, it is at the origin of important headways in the field of the services. SENSe laboratory – Sociology and Economics of Networks and Services Within the R*D, the SENSe laboratory conjugates the sociological and economic approaches. From the point of view of the social sciences, its missions are to map and to understand the manners usages and their transformations, to support the technological innovations, and to help the transformation of the relation of the company to its customers. >From the point of view of the economics, the SENSe laboratory enlightens strategically the Group on its options of investment and the sector-based deformation, and enriches the arguments of the Group and the academic debate on the statutory and institutional problems. For that purpose, the SENSe laboratory conjugates various methodologies: search of data and tracks of usages, ethnology, observation and audio recording and video, socioeconomics of markets and identification of the emergent tendencies. Localization R*D Orange Labs TECH / SENSE laboratory 38-40 rue General Leclerc 92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux FRANCE -- Thomas Couronné -- Thomas Couronné

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Toronto, Canada: "WikiBrands - The Publishing Journey - Mike Dover & Sean Moffitt" is tomorrow, Tuesday, September 14, 2010 6:30 PM!
by Martin＠Cleaver.org 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

[image: Meetup] WikiBrands - the publishing journey Toronto Wiki Tuesdays Your group has a Meetup tomorrow! What WikiBrands - The Publishing Journey - Mike Dover & Sean Moffitt<http://meetup.torontowikituesdays.com/calendar/12813538/t/cr1p_grp/?rv=cr1p> When Tuesday, September 14, 2010 6:30 PM Who 31 Yes *There's still room for 9 more.* Where The Twisted Kilt 1954 Yonge Street Toronto ON M3B 0A3 416-489-3500 How Much Price: CAD10.00 per person Click here to pay<http://meetup.torontowikituesdays.com/calendar/12813538/t/_grp/?rv=cr1p%29>if you have not yet done so. 31 Wiki enthusiasts<http://meetup.torontowikituesdays.com/calendar/12813538/t/_rt/?rv=cr1p>RSVPed Yes, including… *see all<http://meetup.torontowikituesdays.com/calendar/12813538/t/cr1p_rt/?rv=cr1p> * Meetup Description Please be there 6:30 to order drinks, network as we start sharp at 7pm. Inside WikiBrands: The Six Benefits of Wiki Brand Advocacy • Measurement and Metrics • Community Management • The B-to-B Wiki Brand • The Personal Wiki Brand • 25 Things to Know in 25 Minutes The WikiBrands Publishing Journey The book: Launched from branding guru Don Tapscott's landmark $10 million research project on the intersection of technology and business models, WikiBrands explain what your business needs to do NOW to embrace the power of p-2-p technologies like word-of-mouth, user generated content, social media, microblogging, crowdsourcing, and customer rating systems to engage customers and enlist them in brand building and value-enhancement. So, if print is dead and technology books face obsolescence before they even reach the shelves, why would we even take on the project? At Toronto Wiki Tuesday, we'll answer this question as well as discuss: - Key lessons learned about the writing process - Finding an agent and writing the proposal - What to expect in the editing process - The pros and cons of self-publishing - Marketing the book *About our Speakers* Mike Dover is the Managing Partner of Socialstruct Advisory Group. As Vice President, Research Operations for New Paradigm (later nGenera Insight), he oversaw the research programs underlying Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything and Grown Up Digital: How The Net Generation is Changing the World. He also provided review support for more than a dozen other books including Authenticity: What Customers Really Want by Joe Pine and James Gilmore and DIY U Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education by Anya Kamenetz. Sean Moffitt is President, Agent Wildfire Strategy & Communications Inc., a leading social influence, word of mouth and customer engagement firm. He is also an internationally respected and connected web expert and sought-after speaker, lecturing to corporations, associations and universities throughout the world on cultural trends and the reinvention of marketing and business. With one foot in traditional business and another in new digital worlds, he has led the efforts behind established brands Molson, Guinness and Procter & Gamble and now partners with many Fortune 500s and startups as an evangelist for web-enabled customer engagement and collaboration in business. -- This Meetup Group is sponsored by *Blended Perspectives <http://www.blendedperspectives.com>* · *Citadel Rock<http://www.citadelrock.com> *

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