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 [...]