Dear colleagues, The workshops for the Communities and Technologies 2007 Conference are now announced on the C&T web site: http://ebusiness.tc.msu.edu/cct2007/ All workshops are actively soliciting participants now. This year's workshops include: 1. Community Informatics Beyond the Case Study: Using the TOP Data Archive; Organizers: Kate Williams and Ann Bishop 2. BOF - Between Ontologies and Folksonomies: Tools and Architectures for Managing and Retrieving Emerging Knowledge in Communities; Organizers: Dario Maggiorini, Alessandro Provetti, and Laura Anna Ripamonti 3. Past, Present, and Future Impacts of Communication Technologies on Healthcare Communities; Organizers: Pamela Whitten, Michael Mackert, and Lorraine Buis 4. Digital Cities 5: Urban Informatics, Locative Media and Mobile Technology in Inner-City Developments; Organizers: Marcus Foth and Fiorella De Cindio 5. Studying Interaction in Online Communities: From Data Sources to Research Results; Organizers: Thomas Lento, Howard Welser, Eric Gleave, and Marc Smith 6. Communities of Practice in Highly Computerized Work Settings; Organizers: Aditya Johri and Volker Wulf 7. ICT for Business Clusters in Emerging Markets, Organizers: Souyma Roy, Shantanu Biswas, and Kurt DeMaagd 8. Social construction and implications of research infrastructures; Organizers: Peter van den Besselaar and Rob Proctor 9. The paradox of communication: Towards a society of inattention? Organizer: Filippo Dal Fiore 10. Memory practices in computer-mediated communities: a research methods workshop, Elisabeth Davenport and Howard Rosenbaum 11. Public Practices, Social Software: Examining social practices in networked publics, Organizers: danah boyd, Nicole Ellison, and Scott Golder 12. Coaching community leaders on community cultivation and technology integration, Organizers: John D. Smith and Lauren B. Klein 13. Implicit Online Communities, Organizers: Mu Xia and Wenjing Duan With best regards, Charles Steinfield, Brian Pentland, Mark Ackerman, and Noshir Contractor Conference Organizers Third International Conference on Communities and Technologies Michigan State University conference email: cct2007@msu.edu conference website: http://ebusiness.tc.msu.edu/cct2007/