Events
Pics from Frayed Wire
Frayed Wire went great! I had so much fun, even though I was running around like a chicken with it’s head cut off (I was producing the event…). It’s an amazing experience, to be in a room FULL of technologists who are also artists and vice versa. I posted some frayed wire pictures on flickr here. Introductory slides for Frayed Wire are here, provides some background on who was there and our goals: We had a *great* set of speakers and workshops, and people had a lot of fun making stuff out of the items from Junque Exchange in the open [...]
Communities and Technologies 2009
I gave a talk at Communities and Technologies 2009 on June 25. Just got around to getting my slides online, Pathable: Leveraging Social Software for Social Networking and Community Development at Events. Here’s the abstract of the paper described in the talk: Professional networking is a primary goal of people attending conferences and events. Over the past year we developed a social networking and community tool for events, Pathable, to help attendees meet the right people. Pathable provides an online directory of profiles, communication tools, and a recommendation system optimized to help people meet based on commonalities. We performed a [...]
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