After several events in Vienna and Cork (Ireland) and the BlogTalk Downunder, this year’s BlogTalk Conference (the 6th overall) will be held in Korea. I won’t be able to attend this time, which is a pity since I liked the atmosphere and the discussions between the various networks [german] meeting at the previous BlogTalks very much (not to say that I was involved in the organization of two of the conferences…).
Here’s parts of the call for proposals (full text over here):
BlogTalk 2009
The 6th International Conference on Social Software
September 1st and 2nd, 2009
Jeju Island, KoreaOverview
Following the international success of the last five BlogTalk events, the next BlogTalk – to be held in Jeju Island, Korea on September 1st and 2nd, 2009 – is continuing with its focus on social software, while remaining committed to the diverse cultures, practices and tools of our emerging networked society. The conference (which this year will be co-located with Lift Asia 09) is designed to maintain a sustainable dialog between developers, innovative academics and scholars who study social software and social media, practitioners and administrators in corporate and educational settings, and other general members of the social software and social media communities.
We invite you to submit a proposal for presentation at the BlogTalk 2009 conference. Possible areas include, but are not limited to:
- Forms and consequences of emerging social software practices
- Social software in enterprise and educational environments
- The political impact of social software and social media
- Applications, prototypes, concepts and standards
(…)
For academics, BlogTalk is an ideal conference for presenting and exchanging research work from current and future social software projects at an international level. For developers, the conference is a great opportunity to fly ideas, visions and prototypes in front of a distinguished audience of peers, to discuss, to link-up and to learn (developers may choose to give a practical demonstration rather than a formal presentation if they so wish). For practitioners, this is a venue to discuss use cases for social software and social media, and to report on any results you may have with like-minded individuals.
Submitting your proposals
You must submit a one-page abstract of the work you intend to present for review purposes (not to exceed 600 words). Please upload your submission along with some personal information using the EasyChair conference area for BlogTalk 2009. You will receive a confirmation of the arrival of your submission immediately. The submission deadline is June 27th, 2009.
Following notification of acceptance, you will be invited to submit a short or long paper (four or eight pages respectively) for the conference proceedings. BlogTalk is a peer-reviewed conference.
Timeline and important dates
- One-page abstract submission deadline: June 27th, 2009
- Notification of acceptance or rejection: July 13th, 2009
Full paper submission deadline: August 27th, 2009