Conferences 2.0: Scientists and Web 2.0

Ismael Peña-López — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:53:04 +0000

Introduction to the Web 2.0, stressing the fact that the web is the platform, that putting up content to the web has been made quite easy — caveat: provided you have access to a computer and good bandwidth —, the power of RSS, the challenge of filtering and content quality.
Conferences are one dimensional: content delivered at one time and one place
Conferences should shift from information exchange to knowledge exchange
Before conferences: data and information sharing through websites, blogs, social networks
During conferences: knowledge sharing through instant messaging, browsing, blogging and nanoblogging, social bookmarking, shared list of resources/bibliographies, multimedia files, presentations, paper repositories, etc.
During conferences: interaction fostered by wikis, blogging (comments)
After conferences: strengthening the network using social software, blogrolls, keeping the track of conference “official” tags, feedreading, etc.
Opennes, a must
Going digital, or how to create huge (infinite?) economies of scale
The web is the platform, the way to overcome space (and time) barriers
Link, link, link, or how to contribute to reputation and filtering

Using the EyA System — thanks to Carlo Fonda for making it possible!

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