Event Description

The Social Network of Wiki Communities

Speaker: Nelson Ko

This month's speaker will be Nelson Ko. Nelson is the CEO of Citadel Rock Online Communities Inc., providing solutions for online collaboration using wikis and multimedia messaging. He is an administrator of the Tikiwiki open source project. Nelson has architected solutions brought to market across the world for companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Trans World International Interactive and Telstra. He holds an M.A. Economics degree from the University of Toronto.

Note new Location! The Ferret And Firkin
Date: 12 Aug 2008
Time: 6:30 for 7pm

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Synopsis

With all the interest in online social networking, especially around platforms like Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace and Orkut, it is important to realize that the wiki is at its roots an extremely social platform for online interaction. Nelson, our speaker for this session, will show how the social graph derived from the contribution patterns of participants in a wiki can be more informative than that derived from “friend” relationships in online social networking sites. Nelson is conducting ongoing research into how social network relationships within a wiki can be displayed to wiki users to enable them to more effectively identify individuals to connect with for collaboration and follow-up engagement. He is also evaluating how these relationships can be used as a metric of social capital – an important facet of the value that wiki use brings to an organization or community.

When and Where:

6:30pm, Tuesday 12th August at 720 Spadina Ave, (just south of Spadina TTC stop on Bloor) in the back room: http://torontodarts.com/featured/ferret.html

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Who should come and why:
Interested in the topic? Got an opinion? Or just interested to network? Come join our community.

• Managers and leaders responsible for applying such questions to the use of wikis in organisations
• Entrepreneurs wanting to use a wiki as the backbone to their site
• Change transformation agents using wikis to instigate organisational transparency using a wiki
• Consultants and designers who build integration, navigation, visuals and plugins
• Wiki contributors, users and wiki gardeners

About Toronto Wiki Tuesdays and Blended Perspectives:

Toronto Wiki Tuesdays has been running since 2005 and has a mandate to spread the word about how a wiki can transform communication in organisations and the nature of business. Toronto Wiki Tuesdays was founded and is run by Martin Cleaver M.Sc. MBA, Head Blender of Blended Perspectives and a Chair of WikiSym, the International Symposium on the use of Wikis.

Comments about last month's meetup:

• Connie Crosby - “Excellent presentation and Q&A. I didn't miss the overhead projector since the discussion was excellent. ”
• Mary Wilson - “ I was a first-timer, and the session exceeded my expectations. The speaker was very informative and entertaining, and audience members were knowledgeable and asked great questions. ”

Attendees

• Michael Jones
• Derek Wong
• Rudi Breda
• Drew Mathers
• Marissa (non-profit, accessing tools - community building)
• Celina Egaton - places to volunteer
• Amber - SLA chair, building wiki page for Solo group -
• Sherry Dracy - aerospace mechanical engineer
• Jason
• Ollie - Ruby Developer
• Malcolm Bastien
• Marco - researcher at Ryerson - knowledge interaction systems
• Darrell - knows through Nelson, web since 1992 - at an Ad agency
• Debora - product manager, brazil
• Mark Mulholland
• Connie Crosby
• Susie Floresco - egovernment, community leadership to government
• Damir
• Adrian Fritsch
• Melanie Coleman
• Martin Cleaver

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