2007 ASIS&T Annual Meeting
October 21-24, 2007 | Milwaukee, Wisconsin
http://www.asis
.org/Conferences/AM07/
Come to Milwaukee, expand and enrich your network by
Joining Research and Practice
Register now before early rates expire on Friday, September
14, 2007
Web 2.0 and social computing are changing the way people use
information for work, play, research, and everyday
activities. Sponsored by ASIS&T, the premier society for
information science, the 2007 Annual Meeting is devoted to
the discussion of Social Computing and Information Science.
More than sixty sessions of contributed papers, panel
discussions, poster sessions, etc. have been planned. They
will address a wide variety of topics, ranging from tagging,
online communities, information seeking behavior, web log
and transaction log analysis to research directions,
education, and ethical practice for information
professionals in the new world of social computing.
Two plenary sessions have been planned. On Monday morning,
Ms. Anthea Stratigos, co-founder and CEO of Outsell, the
leading research and advisory firm focusing on information
and publishing industry, will address the overall trends,
impact of social computing and web 2.0 to the information
industry. On Wednesday, Dr. Clifford Lynch, Director of
Coalition of Networked Information and long time member and
former President of ASIS&T, will tie everything
together, and discuss what these all meant to information
science and information professionals.
Exciting Pre-Conference Seminars:
Friday, October 19
* Research Into Practice: Studying Producers and Consumers
in Social Computing Environments
* Making D Space Your Own
* Taxonomies in Search
* Social Informatics Research Symposium: The Social Web,
Social Computing and the Social Analysis of Computing Sa
turday, Oct. 20
Saturday, October 20
* 18th Annual SIG CR Classification Research Workshop
* Social Information Architecture
* 7th SIG USE Symposium: Mobility and Social Networks in
Information Behavior
* RSS 2.0 for Current Awareness and Alerts: A Hands-On
"Getting Started" Experience
Sunday, October 21
* Information Architecture 3.0
Special Conference Hotel Room Rates
$124 single/double, $144 triple, $164 quad. Rates are good
until September 27, 2007.
Contact the hotel directly to make your hotel reservations
and ask for the ASIS&T rate (code JIST).
ASIS&T AM07 Conference Hotel
Hyatt Regency, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Tel: (414) 276-1234 Fax: (414) 276-6338
For more information about the meeting or hotel, please
visit our site http://www.asis
.org/Conferences/AM07/
Dick Hill
Executive Director
American Society for Information Science and Technology
1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510
Silver Spring, MD 20910
FAX: (301) 495-0810
(301) 495-0900
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