Hi Alex and all, The suggestions from Jeremy, Ruth, Jenny and Darren the conference activities are great. I'd like to see additional opportunities for our members to connect with each other too, so I'd like the Exec Board to go a little further than just 'encourage' our members to get together at other conferences. I'd like to see us establish an informal group of members who will be responsible to organize meet-ups at the various major and not-so-major conferences that our members attend. Informal, because the sole responsibility would be to establish a place and time for AoIR-ists to meet during these other conferences. Group, because to make this work consistently we need people that attend (or reside in host cities) a variety of conferences. This group would simply be charged with opening the AoIR embrace a little wider; we would have additional opportunities to network with each other; and we can get more of our members involved. In the past, a few key members have taken on this responsibility on their own (thank you!), but sharing responsibility among our members to do this on an ongoing and regular basis will sustain the effort and energy. Putting just a little structure around the process would give an opportunity for any of our members to pitch in to make sure these meet-ups take place. Since many of the conference dates and acceptances are out by October, we can collect information and recruit willing volunteers at our annual meeting. Meet-up information can be published on the listserv and also posted on the website. While I anticipate that several members would step up to this role for the 'greater good,' perhaps the Exec Board might even kick in an extra drink ticket at the conference banquet for anyone who organized a meet-up event during the past year ;-) Kelly ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 16:25:46 -0700 From: Alexander Halavais <halavais@gmail.com> To: aoir list <air-l@aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Voting Open & A Question for Candidates Message-ID: <CAKxz=uCM39JsXP75ES0Hh7Bqspwm-feq6W2tejCJgy47HPZjrw@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Dear AoIR Members (and members of the broader community), Just a reminder that AoIR elections are now open, and will be until the end of the month. I want to encourage all members to vote. There are lots of ways to help contribute to and shape the future of an organization like ours, and electing an executive committee that represents your interests is one of these. I have not yet voted and I'm hoping the candidates can answer a question for me. (And I hope others will ask questions as well, despite the looming deadline!) I've looked over your candidate statements (linked here: http://aoir.org/2013-executive-committee-election-candidate-statements-votin g-information/ ) and I recognize and agree with the need to increase connections among members outside of the conference setting--something that several of you noted. That said, I wonder what single, concrete change you would most like to see in the conferences themselves, and how you might suggest bringing that about. What would you like to see in, say, Bangkok for 2014 that we haven't seen in previous conferences? (If anything!) And what can you do to help make that happen? Thank you all for running, and I look forward to your responses. Best, Alex -- -- // // This email is // [x] assumed public and may be blogged / forwarded. // [ ] assumed to be private, please ask before redistributing. // // Alexander C. Halavais, ciberfl?neur // http://alex.halavais.net // // Please attribute any stupid errors above to autocorrect on my phone. // (But I probably was typing on a keyboard.)
Kelly, Great ideas I was trying to express similar ideas. Thanks, Gene Gene Loeb, Ph.D. On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Kelly Quinn <kquinn8@uic.edu> wrote:
Hi Alex and all,
The suggestions from Jeremy, Ruth, Jenny and Darren the conference activities are great. I'd like to see additional opportunities for our members to connect with each other too, so I'd like the Exec Board to go a little further than just 'encourage' our members to get together at other conferences. I'd like to see us establish an informal group of members who will be responsible to organize meet-ups at the various major and not-so-major conferences that our members attend. Informal, because the sole responsibility would be to establish a place and time for AoIR-ists to meet during these other conferences. Group, because to make this work consistently we need people that attend (or reside in host cities) a variety of conferences. This group would simply be charged with opening the AoIR embrace a little wider; we would have additional opportunities to network with each other; and we can get more of our members involved. In the past, a few key members have taken on this responsibility on their own (thank you!), but sharing responsibility among our members to do this on an ongoing and regular basis will sustain the effort and energy. Putting just a little structure around the process would give an opportunity for any of our members to pitch in to make sure these meet-ups take place.
Since many of the conference dates and acceptances are out by October, we can collect information and recruit willing volunteers at our annual meeting. Meet-up information can be published on the listserv and also posted on the website. While I anticipate that several members would step up to this role for the 'greater good,' perhaps the Exec Board might even kick in an extra drink ticket at the conference banquet for anyone who organized a meet-up event during the past year ;-)
Kelly
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Dear AoIR Members (and members of the broader community),
Just a reminder that AoIR elections are now open, and will be until the end of the month. I want to encourage all members to vote. There are lots of ways to help contribute to and shape the future of an organization like ours, and electing an executive committee that represents your interests is one of these.
I have not yet voted and I'm hoping the candidates can answer a question for me. (And I hope others will ask questions as well, despite the looming deadline!)
I've looked over your candidate statements (linked here:
http://aoir.org/2013-executive-committee-election-candidate-statements-votin g-information/ ) and I recognize and agree with the need to increase connections among members outside of the conference setting--something that several of you noted. That said, I wonder what single, concrete change you would most like to see in the conferences themselves, and how you might suggest bringing that about. What would you like to see in, say, Bangkok for 2014 that we haven't seen in previous conferences? (If anything!) And what can you do to help make that happen?
Thank you all for running, and I look forward to your responses.
Best,
Alex
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-- With Sincerest Best Wishes , Gene Gene Loeb, Ph.D.
I was thinking that the structure for the meetups would be less 'group' like, and more '100 word proposal' with one to two available every two month period, thus spreading it over the year and judged mostly on a first come first serve criteria for those two months.
Hello, all! Lots of good stuff here, so I'm mostly going to build on what's already been said with two proposals... #1 - In my candidate statement, I also mentioned the need for formalized mentorship opportunities. It was noted here that we already have the doctoral colloquium, which is a great opportunity for graduate students - and this is true! However, it can also feel a bit hit-and-run (which has its value, of course). It would be great to compliment that sort of experience with opportunities for sustained collaboration between graduate students and faculty across different institutions. One way to go about this would be to establish a limited number of year long "fellowships" - the Association could sponsor a few student fellows and pair them with willing and interested faculty fellows and give them a year to work together on some sort of output (this can be more or less specific, depending on how the fellowship is ultimately framed), which can then be presented or showcased in some way at the annual conference. I had the opportunity to do something similar with the International Society for Ethics and Information Technology a few years back and I count the conversations that occurred with my faculty mentor among some of the most formative of my early graduate career. Not only was it valuable to carry out a sustained collaboration with someone outside of my institution, it was also great to show up to a conference having already established a working relationship with an established scholar in the field. So, in short, any sort of new mentorship opportunities should serve the Association and its graduate student members in ways that compliment or extend or achieve different goals - but do not step on - already established opportunities like the doctoral colloquium. #2 - There has also been some discussion of different/more/cost-conscious social events at the conference. I'd like to add to this discussion, but take a bit of a risk... So, here's my idea for an additional social event that could also serve to open up opportunities for conversation that young graduate students or AoIR n00bs might otherwise not have: a poster session. But not your usual poster session - which often serves as the first foray into conference life for graduate students everywhere. Instead, we reverse the roles. We ask active and respected faculty members from different institutions to prepare a poster (it could be about their work, about an ongoing project, a proposed project, something, anything - it could also feature as many lolcats as necessary!) and then - in usual poster session style - the selected faculty would have to stand by their poster! And graduate students or other scholars new to AoIR could approach them and ask them questions about their work! Rather than being a "formal" conference session, it could be framed as a social event that turns some traditional aspects of the conference format on its head - and, of course, it would create an opportunity for conversations that doesn't always exist at standard cocktail hours. Anyway, those are two ideas (albeit ideas geared towards opening up new opportunities for mentorship and socializing for graduate students) to add to the pile. -Anthony On May 25, 2013, at 6:55 AM, jeremy hunsinger <jhuns@vt.edu> wrote:
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Hi Alex and all, Alex, thanks for your question. I think some great suggestions have been made here. I would add that I believe one of the best ways to impact the conference is by influencing what goes on between conferences. I think organically cultivating relationships through the email lists (and as I mentioned specifically in revamping the grad student list) would help to make the conference less intimating to first time goers, and give people another reason to go (I'd like to meet these people I've been communicating with). To Kelly's point, I really like the idea of appointing individuals to coordinate AoIR meet-ups at other conferences. I think that is a "between the conference" activity that would help further the goals of growing membership, fostering relationships, and generating build up to our own conference that helps get people excited about who we are and what we do. Alex, thanks again for your question. Cheers, Stacy On May 24, 2013 8:53 PM, "Kelly Quinn" <kquinn8@uic.edu> wrote:
Hi Alex and all,
The suggestions from Jeremy, Ruth, Jenny and Darren the conference activities are great. I'd like to see additional opportunities for our members to connect with each other too, so I'd like the Exec Board to go a little further than just 'encourage' our members to get together at other conferences. I'd like to see us establish an informal group of members who will be responsible to organize meet-ups at the various major and not-so-major conferences that our members attend. Informal, because the sole responsibility would be to establish a place and time for AoIR-ists to meet during these other conferences. Group, because to make this work consistently we need people that attend (or reside in host cities) a variety of conferences. This group would simply be charged with opening the AoIR embrace a little wider; we would have additional opportunities to network with each other; and we can get more of our members involved. In the past, a few key members have taken on this responsibility on their own (thank you!), but sharing responsibility among our members to do this on an ongoing and regular basis will sustain the effort and energy. Putting just a little structure around the process would give an opportunity for any of our members to pitch in to make sure these meet-ups take place.
Since many of the conference dates and acceptances are out by October, we can collect information and recruit willing volunteers at our annual meeting. Meet-up information can be published on the listserv and also posted on the website. While I anticipate that several members would step up to this role for the 'greater good,' perhaps the Exec Board might even kick in an extra drink ticket at the conference banquet for anyone who organized a meet-up event during the past year ;-)
Kelly
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Dear AoIR Members (and members of the broader community),
Just a reminder that AoIR elections are now open, and will be until the end of the month. I want to encourage all members to vote. There are lots of ways to help contribute to and shape the future of an organization like ours, and electing an executive committee that represents your interests is one of these.
I have not yet voted and I'm hoping the candidates can answer a question for me. (And I hope others will ask questions as well, despite the looming deadline!)
I've looked over your candidate statements (linked here:
http://aoir.org/2013-executive-committee-election-candidate-statements-votin g-information/ ) and I recognize and agree with the need to increase connections among members outside of the conference setting--something that several of you noted. That said, I wonder what single, concrete change you would most like to see in the conferences themselves, and how you might suggest bringing that about. What would you like to see in, say, Bangkok for 2014 that we haven't seen in previous conferences? (If anything!) And what can you do to help make that happen?
Thank you all for running, and I look forward to your responses.
Best,
Alex
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participants (5)
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Anthony Hoffmann -
gene loeb -
jeremy hunsinger -
Kelly Quinn -
Stacy Blasiola