The forthcoming LILAC 09 conference is getting very social and sophisticated with a wiki for use by both presenters and attendees! Their wiki site already has details of the papers which can be commented upon in advance and each speaker will have their own wiki page to develop and manage.
For the wiki novice (or complete beginner), there is a handy User Guide to get you started; and if you're a Presenter - here's how you can add tags, new pages and customise your profile.
Of course, blogs and wikis aren't new for conferences - recently Tony Carrer posted on his blog about Conference Wikis, and has some good examples on his blog if you're interested to see how well they can work.
The ALT-C 2006 had a conference wiki that didn't really take off, although one particular ALT-C 2008 workshop organised a wiki for a Digital Divide Slam - for those (including me) who don't know what a 'slam' is:
A slam is a brief performance piece/ creative work that captures people's experience of the digital divide. The vivid expression of your ideas and the impact of your performance is more important than sophisticated use of technology. We need to have the performance captured digitally because we can't all be in the same place.
Your slam can include text or audio narrative or poems, drawings or cartoons, song, dance, mime. We are delighted to accept anything that you can capture in digital media and publish or link to from this Wiki, and that someone can view within a reasonable time, typically 1-3 minutes.
Some conferences, such as Hertfordshire's Blended Learning Conference 2008 have used a Ning social networking site for both pre and post discussions of events. The Learning Technologies 2008 Ning Site is open for all to acess, and seems to be a good example of how Ning can be used. A quick search indicates that there could be approx 1,400 conference sites in existence on Ning. The ALT-C 2008 conference used CrowdVine, which is a similar idea that can be viewed here and even some YouTube clips were generated of the Gala Dinner.
The Cetis 2008 conference also had a wiki, but seemed to use Twitter more effectively on the day as shown by their Twitter Account and their Tweme (twemes are twitter messages from anyone who adds a particular tag to their twitterings). Likewise, ReLIVE08 twittered with delicious and flickr built-in.
The conferences are getting social.Also some conferences, have used social networking site for both pre and post discussions of events.Interesting article posted....
Posted by: used cell phones | 28 March 2010 at 15:07
Any conference coming up in 2010? Or is there already a date i'm not aware of?
Posted by: Acai Optimum | 02 January 2010 at 09:58