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Fwd: Reminder: "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

This event of mine in Toronto, Canada might interest some of you... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Meetup Reminder <info(a)meetup.com> Date: Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:42 PM Subject: Reminder: "WikiBrands - The Publishing Journey - Mike Dover & Sean Moffitt" is tomorrow, Tuesday, September 14, 2010 6:30 PM! To: martin(a)cleaver.org [image: Meetup] Meetup Reminder Toronto Wiki Tuesdays Your group has a Meetup tomorrow! You RSVPed Yes. 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. Update your RSVP<http://meetup.torontowikituesdays.com/calendar/12813538/t/cr1p_upd/?rv=cr1p> 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 Speaker 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> * Add *info(a)meetup.com* to your address book to receive all Meetup emails To manage your email settings for this group, click here<http://meetup.torontowikituesdays.com/settings/> Meetup, PO Box 4668 #37895 New York, New York 10163-4668 *Meetup HQ in NYC is hiring!* http://www.meetup.com/jobs/

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Voice-recorders or mobile phones for face-to-face interviews with young people?
by Leurs, K.H.A. (Koen) 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Dear Aoir-members, I was wondering if anyone on this list is familiar with using an Iphone with a voice-recorder application for recording face-to-face interviews. My intention is to use a mobile phone to record conversations with urban/ migrant youth about online identity practices. However, being aware of impression management and the impact of all sorts of props on the interview process, a traditional recording device might appear intimidating and/or too formal, and as the quality of recording opportunities on mobile phones increases, I was hoping to learn about possible earlier experiences of others on the list taking similar approaches? Kind regards, Koen Leurs Wired Up <http://www.uu.nl/wiredup/index.htm> . Digital media as innovative socialization practises for migrant youth. Aio/PhD Student - Research Institute for History and Culture Faculty of Humanities, Utrecht University, Netherlands

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Fwd: CfP CeDEM11 - Conference for e-democracy, e-participation and e-voting, 5-6 May 2011, Danube University Krems, Austria
by Noella Edelmann 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Re-post - this time with correct dates throughout the document! Apologies for the re-posting and cross-posting! ************************************************************************************* Call for Papers CeDEM11 Conference for e-democracy, e-participation and e-voting 5-6 May 2011 Danube University Krems Austria www.donau-uni.ac.at/cedem During the last 10 years, the world has focused on social media and the new forms of societal behaviour, including content generation, collaboration and sharing as well as network organisation. These behaviours and expectations, in particular transparency and access to data, new ways of interacting with government and democratic institutions will continue to develop, and profound changes in society are to be expected. Society has been confronted with *Open Government*, *Open Data* and *Open Access*. What have the experiences been so far? How do these impact society, democratic structures and organisations? What changes occur at citizen level? What are the implications for democracy, society, science and business? CeDEM11 presents the following tracks: Track: E-participation Co-chairs: Julia Glidden (21c Consultancy, London, UK) and Jeremy Millard (Danish Technological Institute, DK) Track: Open Access and Open Data Co-chair: Andy Williamson (Hansard Society, London, UK) Track: Open Government Co-chairs: Philipp Müller (University of Salzburg, Business School, AT) and Axel Bruns (Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, AUS) Track: E-voting Co-chairs: Melanie Volkamer (Technical University Darmstadt, DE) and Thad Hall (University of Utah, USA) We would like to invite individuals from academic, applied and practitioner backgrounds as well as public authorities and bodies, NGO/NPOs, education institutions and independent organisations to submit their research and project papers as well as workshop proposals. We welcome different multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches and disciplines including (but not limited to): law & legal studies, social sciences, computer sciences, political sciences, psychology, sociology, applied computer gaming and simulation, democratic theory, media and communication science. We also look forward to hearing about workshop proposals. Keynotes Axel Bruns (Associate Professor, Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane; Chief Investigator ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation; Senior Researcher Smart Services Cooperative Research Centre, AUS) Caroline Haythornthwaite (Director, School of Library, Archival and Information Studies at the University of British Columbia, CAN) Doug Schuler (Program Director for the Public Sphere Project; Member of the faculty at The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington, USA) Elke Löffler (CEO, Governance International, Birmingham; UK) Stefan Gehrke (CEO, Politik-Digital, Berlin, DE) Conference Chairs Peter Parycek (Danube University Krems, AT) Manuel J. Kripp (e-voting.cc, AT) Noella Edelmann (Danube University Krems, AT) Important Dates Deadline for the submission of papers: 1 December 2010 Deadline for the submission of workshop proposals: 1 December 2010 Notification of acceptance: 7 February 2011 Camera-ready paper: 28 February 2011 Conference: 5-6 May 2011 Submission and Template www.donau-uni.ac.at/cedem The conference proceedings will be published with the Edition Danube University; additionally the complete proceedings will be made accessible online. All articles of the conference proceedings will be licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Austria ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/at/deed.en ) License. A selection of best papers of CeDEM11 will be published at the Open Access eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government JeDEM http://www.jedem.org/ Fees EUR 195.- for Early Birds (Registration until 28 of February 2011) EUR 240,- for a regular Ticket (Registration after 28 February 2011) EUR 145.- for Authors, PEP-NET Members, Alumni-Club of Danube University Krems, Students under 27 years of age. The fee includes conference proceedings and social program during the conference. A pre-conference social program will be announced later this year. Further Information: www.donau-uni.ac.at/cedem Looking forward to seeing you there! Noella Noella Edelmann BA, MSc, MAS Researcher CeDEM11 Conference for E-democracy, E-participation and E-voting www.donau-uni.ac.at/cedem JeDEM eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government www.jedem.org Digital Government Blog http://digitalgovernment.wordpress.com/ Centre for E-Government Danube University Krems Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Strasse 30 3500 Krems Austria Tel.: ++43 2732 893 2303 www.donau-uni.ac.at/egov noella.edelmann(a)donau-uni.ac.at

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Yahoo Groups Remodelling with Facebook interface
by Liezel Longboan 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Hi all, I was wondering if any one of you is focusing on any Yahoo group for your research? Yahoo has just recently remodelled its Yahoo Groups site so that the new message format now resembles Facebook conversations and includes the members' avatars. My research looks at two egroups on Yahoo. I would like to ask forum members who are also looking at egroups about their concerns regarding this change as it relates to the conduct of their research? Best wishes, Liezel Liezel Longboan PhD Candidate School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies Bute Building, Cardiff University King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff CF10 3NB

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Innovate / Activate, New York Law School, Sept 24-25
by Christopher Wong 12 Sep '10

12 Sep '10

Dear colleagues, Perhaps of interest to AoIR members in the NYC area, NYLS is hosting the Innovate / Activate Unconference on IP and Activism at New York Law School on September 24-25. This event will provide a unique forum for collaboration in the IP activism realm, as well as the opportunity to network and kick off new projects and initiatives. Registration for Innovate / Activate is open at www.nyls.edu/innovateactivate. Regular registration is $50, but thanks to the generous support of Google and the Yale Law School Information Society Project, we are able to provide registration scholarships to members of any student, activist or civil society organizations who might otherwise not be able to attend. All of the info, including a great list of confirmed participants and intellectual sponsors, is available on the event website above. Thanks! Kind regards, Chris ---Christopher WongChair, Innovate / Activatewww.nyls.edu/innovateactivateLecturing Postgraduate FellowInstitute for Information Law & Policy @ New York Law SchoolVisiting Postdoctoral FellowInformation Society Project @ Yale Law Schoole: christopher.wong(a)law.nyls.edut: 212.431.2100 x 4815

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Research on skills supply to the video games and visual effects‏
by Richard Kunzmann 12 Sep '10

12 Sep '10

Dear Colleagues, We are currently assisting NESTA (the National Endowment for Science, Technology and Art) with an independent review of the skills supply in the video games and visual effects industries in the UK. One aspect of the research is to identify existing academic literature on how schools, Further Education Institutions and Higher Education Institutions can improve the supply of adequately trained graduates to a sector that is experiencing chronic skills shortages. The existing academic literature focuses heavily on the impact of computer games on young people and how computer gaming can be used as a pedagogical tool. There is little about the skills that might be developed at school age to prepare students to become specialists in video games /VFX programming, or the teaching methods that might be implemented to help them. Can you point me in the direction of studies which have been conducted in the UK or internationally? We are particularly interested in evaluations of school programs that might have been implemented to prepare learners in this regard, and so examples of industry-school collaborations would also be appreciated. All the best, Richard

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Tools for Twitter
by María Isabel 12 Sep '10

12 Sep '10

Dear Colleagues, On September 26 we have parliamentary elections in Venezuela and Twitter has become one of the arenas of political struggle so we want to capture the most of the posts’ statistics from Venezuela. Comscore published that Venezuela is one of the leaders in Twitter usage but statistics about the country’s usage are not available as we would like. http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2010/8/Indonesia_Brazil… We are using and comparing the information gathered with these tools, what else do you recommend? Searchtastic.com - search Twitter history and export tweets to Excel<http://www.searchtastic.com/index.php> http://www.searchtastic.com/index.php Advanced Twitter Search <http://search.twitter.com/advanced> http://search.twitter.com/advanced TwitterLocal <http://www.twitterlocal.net/> http://www.twitterlocal.net Top Twitter User Rankings & Stats | Twitaholic.com <http://twitaholic.com/> http://twitaholic.com Twitter Alerts - TweetBeep.com <http://tweetbeep.com/> http://tweetbeep.com Hashtags.org <http://hashtags.org/> http://hashtags.org ContextMiner <http://www.contextminer.org/> http://www.contextminer.org Twapper Keeper - "We save tweets" - Archive Tweets<http://twapperkeeper.com/index.php> http://twapperkeeper.com/index.php What The Trend. Find out WHY terms are trending on Twitter<http://www.whatthetrend.com/> http://www.whatthetrend.com Twitoaster - the Twitter conversations service <http://twitoaster.com/> http://twitoaster.com The Archivist Desktop By Mix Online<http://visitmix.com/labs/archivist-desktop> http://visitmix.com/labs/archivist-desktop Twitter follow stats, graphs and widgets | Twitter Counter<http://twittercounter.com/> http://twittercounter.com Thanks! María Isabel Neüman Universidad del Zulia Centro de Investigación de la Comunicación y la Información Investigadora responsable del programa “Experiencias Locales de Apropiación Tecnológica” Maracaibo, Venezuela

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New Sample Available Datasets on PCAT - Coding Comments From YouTube or other Web 2.0 Platforms
by Stuart Shulman 12 Sep '10

12 Sep '10

We have posted a variety of new sample datasets on PCAT ( http://pcat.qdap.net) for researchers who want to experiment with comment analysis. The datasets were compiled using the "InfoExtractor" tool built by Chirag Shah. PCAT is a free text analysis platform that allows you or your team to search, sort, filter & classify the items in a dataset. Further, PCAT has on-board tools for the measurement of inter-coder reliability and validity, generating tag-clouds, and lots of other nifty stuff. If you decise the techniques are useful, using InfoExtractor ( http://www.infoextractor.org) you can go into YouTube, news sites, or blogs to scrape off the comments that you want to study in an XML format that uploads easily into PCAT. These new samples are already posted under "Sample Datasets" when you create a new account: - Climate Change - Climate Change (1000 items)<https://pcat.qdap.net/app/sampleDatasets.aspx?id=8> - HOME (English with subtitles) (1000 items)<https://pcat.qdap.net/app/sampleDatasets.aspx?id=9> - How It All Ends (1000 items)<https://pcat.qdap.net/app/sampleDatasets.aspx?id=10> - Global Warming 101 (1000 items)<https://pcat.qdap.net/app/sampleDatasets.aspx?id=11> - Global Warming (1000 items)<https://pcat.qdap.net/app/sampleDatasets.aspx?id=12> - Gulf Oil Spill - Gulf Coast Oil Spill In-Situ Burn (1000 items)<https://pcat.qdap.net/app/sampleDatasets.aspx?id=13> - Ocean currents likely to carry oil spill to Atlantic (841 items)<https://pcat.qdap.net/app/sampleDatasets.aspx?id=14> - BP Slick Covers Dolphins and Whales (1000 items)<https://pcat.qdap.net/app/sampleDatasets.aspx?id=15> - NASA | Satellites View Growing Gulf Oil Spil (999 items)<https://pcat.qdap.net/app/sampleDatasets.aspx?id=16> - New Underwater footage of BP oil leak at the source (1000 items)<https://pcat.qdap.net/app/sampleDatasets.aspx?id=17> - Immigration - President Obama, No One in Arizona is Laughing (1000 items)<https://pcat.qdap.net/app/sampleDatasets.aspx?id=18> - Shakira Speaks Out Against Arizona Immigration Law (1000 items)<https://pcat.qdap.net/app/sampleDatasets.aspx?id=19> - Gabriella Speaks City Council Meeting April 27, 2010 (847 items)<https://pcat.qdap.net/app/sampleDatasets.aspx?id=20> - Response to President Calderon (1000 items)<https://pcat.qdap.net/app/sampleDatasets.aspx?id=21> - Illegals Threaten To Murder Americans With Axes and Shovels (1000 items) <https://pcat.qdap.net/app/sampleDatasets.aspx?id=22> - Job Market - Video Essay: Jobless in America (50 items)<https://pcat.qdap.net/app/sampleDatasets.aspx?id=23> - Veterans Jobless Rate Doubles Civilians (97 items)<https://pcat.qdap.net/app/sampleDatasets.aspx?id=24> - First Person: Being Unemployed Is 'Devastating' (142 items)<https://pcat.qdap.net/app/sampleDatasets.aspx?id=25> - The Truth About the Economy: Total Collapse (1000 items)<https://pcat.qdap.net/app/sampleDatasets.aspx?id=26> To try it out, set up a free account at http://pcat.qdap.net. There is a 9 minute PCAT overview video online at: http://www.screencast.com/t/ZDczNmE3Mz -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University of Massachusetts Amherst 200 Hicks Way Amherst, MA 01003 http://people.umass.edu/stu/ stu(a)polsci.umass.edu 413-545-5375 Editor, Journal of Information Technology and Politics http://www.jitp.net Director, QDAP-UMass http://www.umass.edu/qdap/ Associate Director, National Center for Digital Government http://www.umass.edu/digitalcenter/

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Invitation to connect on LinkedIn
by Siyuan Yin via LinkedIn 12 Sep '10

12 Sep '10

LinkedIn ------------Siyuan Yin requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn: ------------------------------------------ Cristina, I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - Siyuan Accept invitation from Siyuan Yin http://www.linkedin.com/e/-xdbcsw-gdzh578b-1p/YtWwTimNwHQ3MlNSWtgG6tiAwDFl0… View invitation from Siyuan Yin http://www.linkedin.com/e/-xdbcsw-gdzh578b-1p/YtWwTimNwHQ3MlNSWtgG6tiAwDFl0… -- (c) 2010, LinkedIn Corporation

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A History of the Internet and the Digital Future (release date)
by johnny ryan 11 Sep '10

11 Sep '10

Dear Colleagues, This is a message to announce the Release Date of 'A History of the Internet and the Digital Future' ... Release in the UK and Ireland by Reaktion Books on 20 October 2010, and in the United States by the University of Chicago Press on 15 November 2010. I am delighted to report that Marc Benioff (Chairman and founder of Salesforce.com) Prof Tim Wu (Columbia Law School), and Prof Jonathan Zittrain (Berkman Centre, Harvard Law School) have endorsed the book. Other endorsements come from Suzanne Dirks (Leader, Global Centre for Economic Development, IBM Institute for Business Value) and Phil Madsen (online politics pioneer and manager of the Jesse Ventura campaign '98). Read their endorsements at the pre-order link on AMAZON.COM http://t.co/P9sxD1x This book relies on primary material and first hand interviews and may be of interest to AIR readers. Here is a little of what to expect in the book (summary blurb): A great adjustment in human affairs is underway. Political, commercial and cultural life is changing from the centralized, hierarchical and standardized structures of the industrial age to something radically different: the economy of the emerging digital era. A History of the Internet and the Digital Future tells the story of the development of the Internet from the 1950s to the present, and examines how the balance of power has shifted between the individual and the state in the areas of censorship, copyright infringement, intellectual freedom and terrorism and warfare. Johnny Ryan explains how the Internet has revolutionized political campaigns; how the development of the World Wide Web enfranchised a new online population of assertive, niche consumers; and how the dot-com bust taught smarter firms to capitalize on the power of digital artisans. In the coming years, platforms such as the iPhone and Android rise or fall depending on their treading the line between proprietary control and open innovation. The trends of the past may hold out hope for the record and newspaper industry. From the government-controlled systems of the ColdWar to today's move towards cloud computing, user-driven content and the new global commons, this book reveals the trends that are shaping the businesses, politics, and media of the digital future. Johnny Ryan -- A History of the Internet and the Digital Future (my next book) http://johnnyryan.wordpress.com/books/net-history-2010/ London: Reaktion, 20 September 2010 Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 20 November 2010 Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnnyryan1

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