Nåja, testar att integrera mina bloggar med varandra, dvs. när jag skriver något i min blogg på http://blogs.abo.fi/kholmber/ borde samma inlägg uppdateras även i min blogg på http://kimholmberg.fi/blog/.

Testar med bilder också:

Welcome to Åbo Akademi. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

The aim of the first ISSOME conference is to address new modes of information behaviour in different contexts focusing the effects of social media and technologies in the interactive web. The change process is not always straight forward and we need to underline what is really changing and what is only a trend. The conference will discuss skills needed to manage the new information platform and how to develop needed competencies in the information society. The conference is open to researchers, academics and practitioners inthe fields of library and information science and social media, as wellas businesses and organizations developing social media strategies. The conference will host invited and contributed papers sessions. In conjunction with the conference will also be organized a Doctoral Forum. This offers a possibility for doctoral students to share their ongoing research projects with their peers and well-established senior researchers.

The conference is organized by the Department of Information Studies at Åbo Akademi University. It is well established and internationally recognized for excellence in research and education. The department conducts a wide array of research including research about social media,Library 2.0, knowledge management, health information behavior, and scientometrics. The department is part of the School of Business and Economics and it has strong connections and collaborative multidisciplinary projects with other departments in the school.

Please visit http://issome2011.library2pointoh.fi/ for more information.

Call for Papers

Call for Papers for the international conference in Information Scienceand Social Media – ISSOME in 24.-26.8.2011 is open.We invite researchers worldwide to submit original research within thetopics of the conference that are listed below. Submissions should beextended abstracts of no longer than 1500 words. All submissions will bepeer-reviewed double blinded. Submission guidelines are available at http://issome2011.library2pointoh.fi/.

Conference themes

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Social media in information science
- Information aspects of social media
- Library 2.0 and Librarian 2.0
- Social networking sites
- Information Management
- Knowledge Management
- Knowledge Organization
- Reputation Management
- Information Behaviour and Information Use
- Information dissemination in social media

Structure of the extended abstract

- Title
- Abstract text
- References

Abstract text should clearly describe the aims, novelty/originality andprincipal findings/contribution of the presentation. In the case ofempirical studies, also the method and material should be described briefly.Observe that no information about the authors should be included in theabstract document.

Deadline

Deadline for submissions is February 28, 2011.

A presentation that I uploaded to Slideshare four years ago just hit over 10 000 views (and 358 downloads). To celebrate this (and to test a new Wordpress plugin for Slideshare) I’m reposting the presentation here.

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I guess the first question is, why would someone want to fake the date on their blog entry? Well, perhaps to show that they have been active and that they haven’t missed a single months or week in X number of years. However, the important question from a webometric point of view, is whether it is ethical to fake the dates? Faking the dates may mess up some poor researcher’s work, as the date may be of some significance in some studies. Anyway, as you can see I’m just rambling to get a post done so that I can fake the date and see what happens. My guess is; nothing.

Prospects of Learning in Second Life -conference will be held in Turku, Finland, in October 14-15, 2010. The conference gathers a representative group of experts with great experience about learning and teaching in virtual worlds and specifically in the virtual world of Second Life. The conference offers a great opportunity for teachers, trainers and others working with learning and teaching to dive into virtual worlds as learning spaces and to increase their own expertise in the matter. The program of the conference includes keynote presentations by invited guests and workshop/roundtable discussions with experts. More information at: http://prospects.library2pointoh.fi/

Conference is arranged by the Department of Information Studies at Åbo Akademi University and it is part of an ESR funded project called AVO.

The deadline for registrations is Thursday October 7, 2010.

The 4^th annual workshop on Learning and Research  in Second Life aims to improve the understanding of Second Life as a Learning and Research environment by inviting researchers and educators to share experiences, discuss and develop research and education in and about Second Life and virtual worlds. This year the workshop invites discussion on the aspects of the main conference topics of sustainability, participation and action in addition to other current issues of research and education in Second Life. The workshop will consist of networking, group work and short keynote presentations.

ORGANIZERS

• Kim Holmberg (Åbo Akademi University, Finland) Ph.D. (Kim Zwiers in SL)
• Isto Huvila (Uppsala University, Sweden and AVO-project at Åbo Akademi University, Finland) Ph.D. (Ab Marvin in SL)
• Professor Terry Beaubois (Montana State University, US) Director, Creative Research Lab (Tab Scott in SL)

FEES & LOGISTICS

• Date: Wednesday, October 20, 2010.
• Time: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
• Location: Chalmers student union building, room TBA and in Second Life.
• Fee: 330 SEK (~35 EUR) for onsite participation.
• Lunch and coffee included.

SUBMISSION & PARTICIPATION

To apply to the workshop, you are expected to send your CV and a short Letter of interest (1 page) describing your interest and experience in Second Life and virtual worlds, and topic(s) and/or questions you would especially like to discuss during the workshop. Indicate clearly in your application whether you intend to participate in Gothenburg or via Second Life. Submissions are open from this date onwards and should be sent as soon as possible by email to isto.huvila(a)abm.uu.se.  Invitations will be sent to selected applicants starting from 15 August, 2010. The final deadline for applications is September 15, 2010 or when 35 invitations have been sent.

Applicants from organizations that require an accepted refereed paper to participate in the workshop, may submit a full paper that will be formally peer-reviewed on request.

Submissions are encouraged from professionals, faculty and graduates.

CONTACT

Isto Huvila, isto.huvila(a)abm.uu.se  or by IM (Ab Marvin) in SL.

I had no time to blog in July. My time was consumed by this:

Some time ago I was invited to a Virtual Worlds -workshop in Denmark, to which I in fact attended a couple of weeks ago. The workshop was organized by the Virtual Worlds research group at Roskilde University (http://worlds.ruc.dk/) and the workshop gathered experts on virtual worlds from all over the world. It was a very productive and interesting workshop. Great opportunity for meeting old friends, networking and meeting others interested in virtual worlds. There were also some very interesting keynotes (that are available at http://nordicworlds.net/?p=437).

What was interesting and almost surprising was to realize how much is being done in Scandinavia. A lot of interesting research projects are being done or are about to start in especially Denmark, Sweden and Finland. The problem (as often with research in general) is that we really don’t know what the others are doing. We should have more collaboration and joined meetings to discuss research and to get to know each other.

This problem, or this challenge, led to the idea that we should and we will organize meetings in world and take turns in organizing. The first meeting will be organized by myself on EduFinland islands at the end of summer. The goal is to gather researchers from Scandinavia to meet, network and learn more about what we all are doing. More information about the meeting will be posted here and on http://edufinland.fi in good time before the meeting.