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For the GI Days 2007 here at the IFGI I am responsible for providing a platform which supports the always important networking between the participants. This is actually nothing you would normally care about: socialising happens by itself, and you can’t really force someone into it. The only thing you can do is providing the tools to make it easier to sustain the evolved relationships. 

Social networks as one of the key technologies of the so called ”web 2.0″  make all these networking aspects suddenly a crucial aspect for the success of conferences. This year’s ACM SIGIR for example includes a Doctoral Consortium which gives “students an opportunity to establish a supportive community of other doctoral students at the same stage of their dissertation research as themselves. “

Actually research has always been consisting of two tasks: doing your research and identify relevant people to get feedback. Social networks and networking is just another term for this old concept, new is only the fuss everyone seems to make about it.

Patrick Maué @ Wednesday, 24. January 2007 ,13:28 :: filed under unter News :: RSS comments .