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thomas n. burg - on social media and its benefits for us, and sometimes gossip.

Travel season

MindMeister at Office 2.0Summer is over and the conference season is about to start. During the next 2 weeks I’m at Office 2.0 - details here at MindMeister.

On 9/11 I’m delighted to participate in an elevator pitch competition at the Eco-Kongress in Cologne. Slides soon on Slideshare.


Call: WikiSym 2008

You are into wikis, collaboration, wisdom of the crowds, enterprise 2.0 then head over to WikiSym2008

The Symposium offers a rigorously reviewed research paper track, as well as plenty of space for practitioner reports, discussion of work in progress, demonstrations, tutorials, and informal but lively OpenSpace and WikiFest sessions.

Submit your proposals, workshops etc ’til May 3rd.

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BlogTalk review

Jan did it again - asking BlogTalk right after the conference. Here are the replies. Stuff for future conferences.


Informatik 2008 - Call

The German Society for Computer Science will held a workshop in September in Munich. The call is out. They are aiming at “a good mixture of theoretical and practical research”. That’s probably one of the reasons I’m on the program committee.

Informatik 2008: : ” The workshop on digital social networks will analyze these issues from theoretical and practical points of view. Contributions are solicited on these topics:

  • Methods for analyzing digital social networks and social interaction
  • Social networking services and social software
  • Trust, reputation, authentic contents and social control in digital networks
  • Applications, services and APIs on social portals
  • Search engines for people, trend analysis and prognosis on social portals
  • Special graph properties in social networks
  • Technical modeling of social structures
  • Business cases and economic evaluation of digital social networks
  • Legal and social aspects of online communities
  • Social networks and games
  • Technical questions in digital social networks
  • Security, privacy, identity protection and media usage in social portals
  • Interoperability, data exchange and data synchronization in social portals
  • Personalization and adaptation to user preference
  • Case studies, if they exhibit unique feature”