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Conferences

• International Conference on Social Software (BlogTalk)**
  The International Conference on Social Software (BlogTalk) brings together different groups of people using and advancing the Internet and its usage: technical and conceptual developers, researchers with interdisciplinary backgrounds, and practitioners alike. It is designed to initiate a dialog between users, developers, researchers and others who share, analyse and enjoy the benefits of social software. The focus is on social software as an expression of a culture that is based on the exchange of information, ideas and knowledge. Moreover, we understand social software as a new way of relating people to people and to machines, and vice versa. In the spirit of the free exchange of opinions, links and thoughts, a wide range of participants can engage in this discourse.

  Conference History:

  • BlogTalk Galway 2010: Social Media Event, August 26-27, 2010, NUI Galway, Galway, Ireland
    Learn about social media, imagine the future of social networks
    (Organizer: Social Software Unit, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National University of Ireland Galway)
    Keynotes:
    A new kind of media literacy for a networked age
    WeForest: a social network dedicated to reforesting the planet
    Social media blur: blogs, networks, streams
    Communications 2.0: social media, storytelling, and standing out

    Talks:
    boards.ie: who we are, what we do, where we are going
    Open community labs, creative spaces and doocracy
    Applications of Twitter data extraction for business and research
    Webfinger: a portable identity for the Web
    WebID: From blogging to a secure social web
    The Facebook Platform
    Ruairí McKiernan (SpunOut.ie) – Spinning out social media successfully for an NGO/charity
    From Galway to Silicon Valley and TechCrunch 50: building and raising capital for a consumer Internet startup
    A context-aware mobile social Web
    Apps are bad
    The impact of social media on expert finding
    Who am I: social identity in enterprise social networking
    Social media and LinkedIn for business

    Panel discussions:
    Social networks versus conversational networks
    The rise of location-based media sharing and social networks

  • BlogTalk Asia 2009: 6th International Conference on Social Software, September 15-16, 2009, Jeju, Korea
    (Organizer: Biomedical Knowledge Engineering Laboratory, Seoul National University)
    Keynotes:
    Cloud Intelligence
    The Future of Citizen Journalism
    Real-Time Web Search
    Towards Socially-Responsible Management of Personal Information in Social Networks

    Conference Sessions:

    Social Semantic Web Session:
    Linking Topics of News and Blogs with Wikipedia for Complementary Navigation
    A Model for Open Semantic Hyperwikis
    Generating Researcher Networks with Identified Persons on a Semantic Service Platform

    Social Web for Industry Session:
    Implementing a Corporate Weblog for SAP
    Social Geospatial Technologies: Trends Beyond Web 2.0 and How Free and Open Source Development is Helping Shape the Future of GIS
    The Architecture of Fun: Emotion and Interaction for Massively Social Games

    Social Communications Session:
    Life is Tweet: Emerging Micro-Narratives on Twitter
    Semantic Twitter: Analyzing Tweets for Real-Time Event Notification
    Listen and Connect: Integration Communication and Social Media (panel)

    Social Media Sesssion:
    Poll Store Conceptual Framework for Social Media
    A Study on Users’ Voting Tendency in Social News Services
    Semantic Web and Contextual Information: A Semantic Network Analysis of Online Journalism on Media Law in South Korea

    Korean Social Web Session:
    Textyle
    Daum BloggerNews
    Textcube.com
    Free the People: How Governments around the World Muzzle the Social Web (special talk)
    Future of Social Web in Korea (panel)

    Social Healthcare Session:
    User-Driven Innovation: A Means for Social Innovation from a Health and Female Running Community Perspective
    Social Network System Based on an Ontology in the Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine

    Social Knowledge Management Session:
    Effect of Knowledge Management on Organizational Performance Enabling Thought Leadership and Social Capital through Technology Management

  • BlogTalk Cork 2008: 5th International Conference on Social Software, 3-4 March 2008, Cork, Ireland
    (Organizer: Social Software Unit, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National University of Ireland Galway)
    Keynotes:
    Entrepreneurship and social media
    Conversation tracking technologies: how to improve communication in a UGC world
    Semantic social software: the Semantic Web for consumers
    Let’s face it: Web 2.0 is all about advertising

    Talks:
    The DIY future: what happens when everyone designs social media? Practical suggestions for handling new ethical dilemmas
    Neovictorian, nobitic, and narrative: ancient anticipations and the meaning of weblogs
    Everyday body regimes: the construction of self in weblogs about dieting
    Realising potential in the web of relationships
    The further adventures of TiddlyWiki
    Campus Móvil: designing a mobile Web 2.0 startup for higher education uses
    Memoz: spatial webpublishing
    A proposed semantic recommender network for trip planning
    The long tail, and why multiple identities make it just a little bit longer
    Extended identity for social networks
    The impact of Politics 2.0 in Spanish social media: tracking conversations around audiovisual political wars
    MindVoyager: an interactive journey through the collective thoughts of a selected target group
    Building blogs and mashing them up with Windows Live Services and Popfly
    Social blog: turning a blog into a decentralised social network
    What is happening behind the firewall? The emerging role of social software in IBM
    int.ere.st: SCOT-based tag sharing services

    Panel discussions:
    Mashups, microformats and the mobile web
    From blog-style commentary to conversational social media
    Co-located Conferences:
    WebCamp (Mar 2)

  • BlogTalk Reloaded Conference, October 2–3, 2006, Vienna, Austria
    (Organizer: Social Software Lab)
    Keynotes:
    The significance of social software
    WordPress and Jazz
    Mashups – Meet Enterprises

    Talks:
    Blogs: from communicative to connective artefacts
    Social Software: Facilitating information-, identity- and relationship management
    Podcasts and Vodcasts or Insights into the world of pull media
    Building a social interface onto existing corporate systems: some lessons from an 18-month project in a major legal practice
    Folksonomies, Ontologies and Corporate Blogging
    Social Software in Business – An adoption strategy
    The Google Data API
    Why Wiki? A Glimpse into our Post-Document Future
    Jajah sponsor presentation
    The IFCCC PatchworkPortal: the co-evolution of an emergent community and a social software platform (Paper)
    SIOC Browser – Towards a Richer Blog Browsing Experience (SIOCYourBlog)
    The Pleasure of the Blog: The Early Novel, the Serial, and the Narrative Archive
    Weblogs in Political Campaigns – The Critical Success Factors
    CAcert 5 minutes about that certification authority followed by an assurance session (bring your passport or comparable credentials)
    Reflections on pedagogy: Understanding adult learners
    Social News Reading from the community of interest perspective
    Securing authorship with RegisteredCommons.ORG

  • BlogTalk Down Under Conference, May 19-22, 2005, Sydney, Australia
    Emergent Conversations
    (Organizer: incsub – open source for education; Center for Language and Literacy, University of Technology Sydney)
    Keynotes: (3)
    Protecting the Blogosphere
    technologyLog – innovating knowledge sharing
    n.a.

    Talks:
    Blogs and the crisis of authorship
    Media Rich versus Rich Media (or why video in a blog is not the same as a video blog)
    Centred Communication: Weblogs and aggregation in the organisation
    Up against reality: Blogging and the cost of content
    Blogs and Politics in Australia and globally
    Blogging as an Effective Tool in Teaching and Learning Software Systems Development
    Mapping the U.S. Political Blogosphere: Are Conservative Bloggers More Prominent?
    The eventual potential of Blogs
    Weblogs as Open Constructive Learning Environments
    Assessment by blog: Ethical case studies assessment for an undergraduate business management class
    Portfolio Building in Chinese Language Learning Using Blogs
    Blogging as pedagogic practice: artefact and ecology
    Blogging in undergraduate design studios
    Blogs versus discussion forums in postgraduate online continuing medical education
    “Faster, neater, sharper!”: how different models of communication intersect
    Fictional Blogging and the Narrative Identities of Adolescent Girls
    Weblogs and Authority
    What’s in the Box? Modulating vocabularies of trauma and mundanity in refugee blogs
    Comments in the Margins – Life Narrative, Publishing, Credibility, and Blogs
    Gerard Goggin: “Have Fun and Change the World”: Moblogging, Mobile Phone Culture and the Internet

    Panel discussions:
    Desire Lines, Memes & the Blogosphere

    Pre-conference Workshops: (May 19)
    Up close and personal with weblogs
    Video and Podcasting: Rich Media into your Blog

  • BlogTalk 2.0: European Weblog Conference, July 5-6, 2004, Vienna, Austria
    (Organizer: Center for New Media, Danube-University Krems)
    Keynotes:
    The Social Physics of New Weblog Technologies
    Dialogue in slow motion – the pleasure of writing and reading across the we
    Blogs, Bandwidth, and Banjos: Tightly Knit Bonds in Webloggin
    Mobile Blogging: Who, Where, Why? (cancelled)
    The International Weblog Award BOB

    Talks:
    Bottom up Knowledge Management with Weblogs and SnipSnap
    Zoomblox – A Universe Of Topics From Children For Children
    Turn Your Radio On or Tweaking And Tuning Your Weblog
    Videoblogs as ‘Collective Documentary’
    The blog as an immersive space: Moblogging Jokkmokk 2004
    ‘Live’-writing: weblogs and the coverage of reality
    Understanding blogs: a communicative perspective
    Blogosphere community formation, structure and visualization
    Enhancing Blogs with a Dual Interaction Design
    Weblogs and Location, beyond the limits of physical and virtual space
    Does blogging suck?
    The German Blogosphere – some facts and figures
    Applying Social Network Analysis to a small Weblog Community: Hubs, Power Laws, the Ego Effect and the Evolution of Social Networks
    Blog to work? Blogging and journalism
    ‘Are You Serious?’ – the potential and the reality of weblogs as mass media, and why they matter
    After midnight. Weblogs and jam sessions
    Informal, joined up knowledge sharing using connected weblogs in pursuit of Mental Health service improvement
    Distributed Knowledge Management – Improving Knowledge Workers’ Productivity and Organisational Knowledge Sharing with Weblog-based Personal Publishing
    Collective blogging from the view of a context-oriented understanding of knowledge
    Using Weblogs as Project Management Tools in innovative projects
    Shared Conceptualizations in Weblogs
    Seeding conversational learning environments: Running a course on personal Webpublishing and Weblog authoring
    Blogging as a Dynamic, Transformative Medium in the Writing Classroom of an American Liberals Arts College
    Weblog as an educational third-place
    Revisiting the Spanish blogosphere
    The State of Linking in the Czech Blogosphere

  • BlogTalk: European Conference On Weblogs, May 23 – 24, 2003, Vienna, Austria
    Web-based publishing, communication and collaboration tools for professional and private use
    (Organizer: Center for New Media, Danube-University Krems)
    Keynotes:
    Why Blogs Matter
    Vom Weblog lernen… Community, Peer-toPeer und Eigenständigkeit als ein Modell für zukünftige Wissenssammlungen
    Waging Peace: Using our Powers od Good

    Talks:
    Semantic Blogging and Bibliography Management
    Weblogs and sustainable Knowledge Production: Learning from the BIPlog
    The Algebra of Copyright
    The Blogosphere Map
    Weblogs, an lranian Perspective
    Weblogs in Poland are C-logs
    Do we live in a Small World? Measuring the spanish-speaking Blogosphere.
    Personal Webpublishing as a Reflective Conversational Tool for Self-Organized Learning
    Business Weblogs – a Pragmatic Approach to Introducing Weblogs in Medium and Large Enterprises
    Discourse and Weblogs: Weblogs as a Transformational Technology for Higher Education and Academic Research
    Blogging’s Unique Advertising Metrics: Passion and Hubness
    Blogs: The Stickiness Factor
    Toward a Converged Blogging Toolkit
    Diglit – a K-log for Documenting a Project on Digital Literacy-Case Study
    Just a Blog in the Machine
    In and Out – Communicating the Needs of Civil Engineers
    Weblogs: from Coexistence to Conviviality, a Leap into Direct Reality
    We Media: What happens to Journalism and Society. when every Reader can be a Writer (Editor, Producer, etc.)
    Blogging and the Ecommunication Paradigms: 10 Principles of the New Media Scenario
    blogumentary (video)

    Panel discussions:
    Birds of a Feather Panel