Finished my CASCON short paper talk

I just finished my CASCON short paper talk on "Identifying Active Subgroups in Online Communities" about an hour ago. It went well, I had some great feedback. I'll post the talk which I recorded and slides soon. Now, I can concentrate on the rest of my PhD work. No rest for a PhD student! But I enjoy giving talks and meeting with people and discussing about my research, it's exciting and engaging. If you have any comments or feedback from my paper or talk, write some comments on this blog back to me!

CASCON 2007 Conference, Day 1

I just finished co-chairing a session on Tagging as a Social Contract along with Mark Chignell and Sara Darvish, where we had 4 talks about issues surrounding tagging in a business environment. This was the second session as part of the Second Working Conference on Social Computing and Business at the CASCON 2007 conference. It was a great workshop and great session, and great discussion. I talked about how community can be inferred from tagging using the YouTube vaccination videos as an example. Podcasts and slides from the workshop should be available, so check the CASCON blog.

I also showed a demo of a community-based web portal that our lab created to support vaccination groups in our exhibit at the Technology Showcase called "Video Web 2.0: Collaborative Tagging in Web Video". If you're at CASCON, check it out!

Photos from CASCON are on my Flickr account.