Announcing the UNC Social Software Symposium
Posted 10/13/2006 08:49:00 AM |


It is my pleasure to informally announce the Social Software Symposium (Update: Here is a link to the symposium CFP), to be held at UNC-Chapel Hill on December 8-9, 2006. The event will be a two day exploration of two burgeoning areas of social software: folksonomy and social networking websites. Drs. David Weinberger (Cluetrain, Small Pieces Loosely Joined), Nicole Ellison (MSU) and Cliff Lampe (MSU) will be featured attendees.

The purpose of this event is to bring together young researchers in the field, to explore research methods and strategies for studying social software. Therefore, if you are a researcher in the field (faculty or currently enrolled student, Masters-level or above) and would like to be involved with such an event, I encourage you to contact me directly for more details. In this "meeting of the minds" we'll meet, discuss methods and strategies for studying social software, and hopefully walk away with many new friends and research collaborators.

Please feel free to forward this on - I'd love to hear from interested parties so I can share more information about this symposium. My email address is fred@metalab.unc.edu. Note: If you are from industry and are interested in attending, please also consider contacting me. Space for industry participants is quite limited and will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

Update: Here is a link to the symposium CFP.


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 At November 01, 2006 5:22 PM, Blogger Ruby said...

Dang, I thought this was in November. I will be out of the country December 8 & 9!

Fred, you have an uncanny knack for organizing cool conferences when I can't attend! ;-)

Have a great time and blog it up for the rest of us...

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