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Snurb — Monday 19 September 2011 23:57

A Manifesto for Social Innovation Using Social Media

Produsage Communities | Social Media | Challenge Social Innovation 2011 |

Vienna.
The next speakers at Challenge Social Innovation are Christoph Kaletka, Ricard Ruiz de Querol, and Bastian Pelka, who are presenting nothing short of a manifesto for social media and social innovation. Social media, Bastian starts, are not a technology, but a specific form of using existing technology: a social innovation. Social media is an umbrella term for a rapidly growing set of practices and platforms, which are based around the core innovation of user-generated content as a new social routine.

Social media, then, describe a new communication pattern (a paradigm shift in communication), which replaces finished communicative processes …

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Snurb — Monday 19 September 2011 23:10

Commercial Approaches to User Collaboration

Produsers and Produsage | Produsage Communities | Produsage in Business | Challenge Social Innovation 2011 |

Vienna.
The next speaker at Challenge Social Innovation is Heidemarie Hanekop, whose focus is on user collaboration with companies. First, of course, such collaborations are importantly enabled by the Web, which makes a broad base of new knowledge publicly available and thereby enables new forms of information sharing and collaboration. This can happen with and without the help of commercial interests – from Wikipedia and open source to Facebook and YouTube.

Such new collaborative spaces are clearly attractive to users, which has also led to the involvement of companies in this space. But user collaboration stands in sharp contrast …

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Snurb — Monday 19 September 2011 22:49

User-Led Innovation: The Case of Crytek

Produsers and Produsage | Produsage Communities | Online Games | Produsage in Business | Challenge Social Innovation 2011 |

Vienna.
The next speaker at Challenge Social Innovation is Birgit Blättel-Mink, who focusses on the case of German games developer Crytek (which developed Far Cry, Crysis, and other games), based in Frankfurt, which engages with its users as innovators. The company has some 600 employees distributed across five international studios and two distribution centres; its core product is the Cry games engine.

Crytek’s user community includes casual gamers (on social networks), hardcore gamers (in the Crytek Mycrisis community and other online communities), and modders who generate modified games modules and take part in various specialist communities. Casual gamers …

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Snurb — Tuesday 17 May 2011 17:29

Using Social Media for Effective Communication (CRCA 2011)

Produsage Communities | Smart Services CRC | Twitter | Social Media | Conferences |

CRCA 2011

Using Social Media for Effective Communication

Axel Bruns

  • 17 May 2011 – Cooperative Research Centres Association conference, Brisbane
Using Social Media for Effective Communication
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Snurb — Thursday 5 May 2011 23:22

Of Lightweight Crowds and Heavyweight Communities

Government | e-Government | Produsage Communities | CeDEM 2011 |

Krems.
The second round of keynotes at CeDEM 2011 starts with Caroline Haythornthwaite, whose focus is on making sense of online community structures. She begins from a social network analysis perspective, which understands social networks as constituted of relations between actors. Such social networks transcend online social networks, of course; rather, we now need to take a whole-of-system perspective in which social networking takes place across a range of networks, including online networks.

What’s especially important here, too, is a focus on new forms of collaborating and organising; with the shift towards Web 2.0, but also with many other concurrent …

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Snurb — Sunday 1 May 2011 23:03

Towards Distributed Citizen Participation: Lessons from WikiLeaks and the Queensland Floods (CeDEM 2011)

Politics | Government | e-Government | Produsage Communities | Crisis Communication | CeDEM 2011 |

CeDEM 2011

Towards Distributed Citizen Participation: Lessons from WikiLeaks and the Queensland Floods

Axel Bruns

  • 5 May 2011 – Keynote at the Conference on e-Democracy, Krems, Austria
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Snurb — Saturday 23 October 2010 23:04

Hybrid Organisational Innovation: The Case of Tela Botanica

Produsage Communities | Produsers and Produsage | Produsage in Business | AoIR 2010 |

Gothenburg.
The next speaker at AoIR 2010 is Serge Proulx, who is interested in how sharing practices are organised in the collaborative knowledge environment Tela Botanica. What does it mean to contribute to this type of online environment? The site is a French-language site for discussions on botany, founded in 1999, and highly successful in its field (with some 12,000 members to date).

The site publishes a weekly newsletter with some 7,700 subscribers that is open to contribution to all and allows for comments attached to articles; it also posts events and job offers. There is also the E-Flore …

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Snurb — Saturday 23 October 2010 22:03

Future Directions for the Music Industry: Lessons from the Swedish Independent Scene

Produsage Communities | Filesharing | AoIR 2010 | Music |

Gothenburg.
The last keynote at AoIR 2010 is by the fabulous Nancy Baym, whose recent work has focussed especially on the Swedish independent music industry. Nancy’s based in Kansas, but is now well connected with the Swedish music scene – and that’s just one example of the international cultural interconnections which we’re now seeing.

Her initial interest in Swedish music stems from exposure to independent music stores in the US which import overseas music; most of these stores are labours of love rather than significantly successful commercial enterprises – and they are now also selling music back to Sweden, in …

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