[Air-l] Pix, absenteeism

[Sheizaf Rafaeli]

My Sussex pix are here:

http://pix.rafaeli.net/AoIRCOnference2004 

(or, for the DNS challenged, try 
http://gsb.haifa.ac.il/~sheizaf/tmunot/AoIRConference2004/  )


On absenteeism -- I too am unhappy with very-late cancellations. But am
reminded these are people. Hundreds of them. One can expect a certain
percentage of unexpected developments. We did have over 40 cancellations
before the  last draft of the program went out. Then about two dozen more
during the last week. I think only one or two sessions had to be cancelled
without advance notice (that makes for 1%!)

My experience with other conferences (including HICSS, ICA, ICIS, APA,
Academy of Management) is that our rate of no-shows (around 10-15%) is on
par, or even better. Given the European venue, participation from several
dozen countries, and the absence of a traditionally set date (like US
memorial day for ICA, or second week in August like APA), I think we are
doing fine. 

Sheizaf






Prof. Sheizaf Rafaeli
Center for the Study of the Information Society
and the Graduate School of Business 
University of Haifa.       Tel +972-4-8249578 
sheizaf at rafaeli.net    http://sheizaf.rafaeli.net  
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nancy Baym [mailto:nbaym at ku.edu]
> Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 4:23 AM
> To: air-l at aoir.org
> Subject: [Air-l] conference pix?
> 
> I noticed an awful lot of camera flashes flashing throughout the
> Sussex conference (kind of funny, I thought, for a crowd prone to
> presenting papers on the dangers of the surveillance society). If any
> of you post them to the web can you please let me or the list know?
> 
> Thanks,
> Nancy
> 
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