[ecrea] NFAIS Forum on the Impact of Social Media on the Future of Scholarly Communication

> NFAIS Forum on the Impact of Social Media on the Future of Scholarly 
> Communication.
>
> The meeting, scheduled for May 1, 2009 at PALINET Headquarters in 
> Philadelphia, PA, is one that you won't want to miss.
>
> Why Attend?
>
> The traditional process of scholarly communication is changing. 
> Social media have not only broadened the geographic scope of 
> scholarly communication beyond that of the print environment, but 
> have re-introduced social dialog and immediate feedback into the 
> scholarly communication process on a global scale. Scholars 
> worldwide are embracing this change, but for the most part those 
> traditionally responsible for managing the scholarly communication 
> process - publishers, abstracting and indexing services, libraries, 
> and scholarly societies - have not. If your organization is looking 
> how to adapt to the newly-emerging conversational scholarly 
> communication process or is in the early implementation phase, this 
> meeting is for you.
>
> Who Should Attend?
>
> If you are an information provider or librarian looking to utilize 
> social media to enhance existing products and services, a scholarly 
> society seeking to expand the value of membership, an information 
> professional responsible for implementing social media in your 
> enterprise, or a technology developer working to remain state-of-art 
> in a rapidly changing information environment, this meeting will 
> provide a glimpse at how social media are beginning to transform the 
> scholarly communication process and how content providers, scholarly 
> associations and librarians are using social media to meet the needs 
> and expectations of 21st century scholars.
>
> Agenda
>
> The program will begin with an overview of the acceptance and use of 
> social media from Steve Paxhia, author of the Gilbane research 
> report, Collaboration and the Enterprise, who will highlight the 
> applicability of social media tools and networks to high-quality 
> content such as scholarly articles and research data. The program 
> will also look at how innovative publishers and scholarly societies 
> are actively using social media and social networks to enhance their 
> readership and to increase the value of Society membership with 
> presentations by John Sullivan, Chief Information Officer of the 
> American Chemical Society and Jason Wilde, Publisher, Physical 
> Sciences of the Nature Publishing Group. In addition, academic and 
> public librarians will discuss how they are incorporating social 
> media and social networks within their library in order to support 
> faculty, students, and library patrons in general. The program will 
> examine the barriers to adopting social media and user-generated 
> content, and will end with a closing keynote by Darin McBeath, 
> Director of Disruptive Technologies, Elsevier, who will provide a 
> glimpse of the future of scholarly communication as shaped by social 
> networks, new social media and other disruptive technologies that 
> are changing the scholarly communication process.
>
> The preliminary program, registration form, directions to the 
> meeting location, list of nearby hotels, and general information on 
> Philadelphia is available at: 
> http://www.nfais.org/events/event_details.cfm?id=55 .
>
> Register early as attendance is limited to 60 attendees. NFAIS 
> members pay $345 and non-members pay $395. For more information 
> contact:  Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director, Communication and Planning, 
> 215-893-1561 (phone); 215-893-1564 (fax); 
> mailto:(jilloneill /at/ nfais.org) or go to http://www.nfais.org/ .
>
> The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS(tm))
>
> --
> Jill O'Neill
> (jillmwo /at/ gmail.com)
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/jilloneill

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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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