[Air-l] Re: tools for social networking at conferences (fwd)

[Marc Smith]

Consider as well: 

- ntag.com - IR based "name tags" tracks who you meet (and have met) and
suggests things you may have in common with your interaction partner.

- spotme.ch - RF based PDA style device allows users to fill out a
profile and get informed when people interested in similar topics are
"near".

-
Marc

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Marc A. Smith 
Research Sociologist 
Microsoft Research Community Technologies Group 
http://netscan.research.microsoft.com 
http://www.research.microsoft.com/~masmith
masmith at microsoft.com




-----Original Message-----
From: air-l-bounces at aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces at aoir.org] On Behalf
Of David Tannenbaum
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 6:12 PM
To: air-l at aoir.org
Subject: [Air-l] Re: tools for social networking at conferences (fwd)

SubEthaEdit is a useful (and fun) tool that that lets several people 
work on a single text document at the same time, in real time. 
Participants could use it to collaborate on a written record of a 
conference session, note taking, commentary, etc. It can also be used as

a flexible chat room.

I've used it very effectively in a small wi-fi network to provide a 
record of an international treaty negotiation (see 
http://www.public-domain.org/node/view/42#transcript)

The major downside is that it only runs on Macs.

http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/


> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 11:10:52 -0500
> From: "Caroline Haythornthwaite" <haythorn at uiuc.edu>
> Subject: [Air-l] tools for social networking at conferences (fwd)
> To: "AoIR" <air-l at aoir.org>
> Message-ID: <001f01c45485$aa5be830$991e7e82 at D9447B11>
> 
> There are two projects I know of. One is called IKNOW, developed by
Nosh
> Contractor at UIUC. Participants can pre-enter their interests and
IKnow
> then shows the social networks among them based on their interests.
> 
> http://www.spcomm.uiuc.edu/Projects/TECLAB/IKNOW/
> 
> The other is a system called Intellibadge, lead developer Donna Cox,
using
> RFID badges to capture and display co-participation at conferences
> 
> http://intellibadge.ncsa.uiuc.edu/index.htm
> 
> Both are useful for conferences. The Intellibadge requires physical
> devices, but IKnow does not.
> 
> /Caroline
> 
> 
>
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> Caroline Haythornthwaite (haythorn at uiuc.edu);
www.lis.uiuc.edu/~haythorn
> Associate Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information
Science
> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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