Please consider joining us for a workshop on Government Applications of Social Media Networks and Communities, as part of the University of Maryland's Human Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL) annual symposium in College Park, Maryland on Friday, May 28, 2010. Details and registration are found at: http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/soh/tutorials-workshops.shtml#W1 Please pass this along to your colleagues who may be interested in joining us. Sincerely, Derek Hansen, Marc Smith, Ben Shneiderman, and Jenny Preece ********************** When: Friday, May 28, 2010, 9:30am-4:00pm Where: CSIC Building, UMD, College Park Who: Government thought leaders, system developers, and agencies; industry partners, researchers, and students The HCIL Government Applications of Social Media Networks & Communities Workshop, as part of the 27th Annual Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL) Symposium, will examine how social media can be systematically applied to increase civic participation on national priorities. Attendees will… • discuss interesting and ambitious ways that federal, state, and local governments are using social media in decision-making, healthcare/wellness, energy sustainability, education, disaster response, community safety, scientific research, etc. • explore how analytic tools like NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com/) can help systematically analyze social media initiatives and mine social media sites for useful information. • identify the unique challenges of using social technologies in a government context and design strategies and policies that help overcome those challenges Participants will include: • Vladimir Barash, doctoral student, Information Science, Cornell University • John Bertot, Professor, iSchool, UMD • Derek Hansen – Assistant Professor, iSchool, UMD and director of Center for the Advanced Study of Communities and Information (CASCI) • Scott Golder, doctoral student, Sociology, Cornell University • Bradford Hesse, Chief of the National Cancer Institute’s Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch (HCIRB) • Natasa Milic-Frayling, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Cambridge • Cynthia Parr, Director, Special Pages Group, Encyclopedia of Life, Smithsonian • Jenny Preece – Dean, iSchool, UMD. • Ben Shneiderman – Professor, Department of Computer Science, UMD, and founder of the Human Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL). • Marc Smith – Chief Social Scientist, Connected Action Consulting Group, director of the Social Media Research Foundation If you would like to join us, please contact Derek Hansen (dlhansen@umd.edu). There is a $75 registration fee for attendees that covers breakfast (beginning at 8:30am), lunch, and a snack. Make sure and join us for the HCIL Symposium, held the day before (see http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/soh/symposium.shtmlfor details).