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From June 28-30, I attended the Communities & Technologies 2007 conference in Lansing, Michigan, USA. It was a very inspiring event, basically the academic conference in the field of community informatics. Lots of interesting ideas and people, see my GrowingPains post for an impression.

On May 14, I gave a presentation at the Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University, in Milton Keynes, UK. The topic of my presentation was "A Socio-Technical Approach for Topic Community Member Selection" (see my GrowingPains blog). I had some interesting meetings before and afterwards with Mark Gaved, Simon Buckingham Shum, Jianhan Zhu, and Trevor Collins of that institute.  read more »

At the 1st Second Life International Conference I took a whole bunch of pictures, to try and capture some of the quite mature conference uses of this virtual world. I already showed a glimpse of one one of the presentations. Here are some other galleries of my trek through conference land:  read more »

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On June 14, I was at the University of Twente in Enschede to attend the Interdisciplinary Second Life Workshop. It was organized by the new inter-facultary Center for Information Technology and Society (CITS), part of the Centre for Telematics and Information Technology.  read more »

Click here for the gallery that contains the pictures taken by Al Mohr (Second Life) / Aldo de Moor (Real Life) of Schomer Simpson 's (Second Life) / Peter Twining's (Real Life) presentation at the Second Life Best Practices in Education International Conference 2007.  read more »

Everybody interested in Second Life should attend the 1st Second Life International Conference 2007: Best Practices in Teaching, Learning, and Research. Lack of money or travel time are no excuse, since the event will, of course, be held completely in-world. There will be all day events, keynote speakers, and even free bags of goodies from the best SL content creators. So, sign up, and see you on Friday!