Caught in the Social Net
Virtual Communities as a financial model
When and Where:
25 June, 2007 – Dan Hotel, 99 Hayarkon Street, Tel Aviv
26 June, 2007 – CET, 16 Klausner Street, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv
Focus
The conference will address economic issues resulting from the behavior of various online communities, among them communities based on common areas of interest, less-than-critical mass linguistic communities, and communities whose development revolves around the world of books and newspapers.
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Community as an economic growth engine |
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How far can community magic go in less-than-critical mass linguistic communities? |
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Communities in free-content and closed-content environments |
Panel discussions will be held on the second day of the conference, following the presentation of three test cases.
Participating organizations
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Speakers:
Dan Gillmor, Director, Center for Citizen Media
Lee Dirks, Director for Scholarly Communications, Microsoft
Nora Abousteit, co-founder, BurdaStyle.com
Dov Alfon, Chief Editor, Kineret-Zmora-Bitan-Dvir Publishers
Dr. Yehuda Atai, Publisher, World of the Bible Encyclopedia and poet
Dr. Karine Barzilai-Nahon, The Information School, University of Washington
Gila Ben-Har, CEO, CET, The Center for Educational Technology
Prof. Dan Caspi, Head, The Burda Center for Innovative Communications at Ben-Gurion University
Ricky Cohen Communities Manager Ynet
Stephanie Czerny, Hubert Burda Media
Myriam Darmoni-Sharvit, Head, Department of Civic Education and Democracy, CET, The Center for Educational Technology
Prof. Caroline Haythornthwaite, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois
Eli Kannai, The Avi Chai Foundation
Guy Levi Head, Computer Products, CET, The Center for Educational Technology
Gad Lior, Bureau Chief, Jerusalem, Yediot Aharonot
Dr. Oren Meyers, The department of Communication, University of Haifa
Gal Mor, Editor,Computer section, Ynet
Nir Ofir, One of the creators of BlogTV.com
Prof. Sheizaf Rafaeli, Director of INFOSOC - Center for the Study of the Information Society
Dr. Zvi Reich, Department of Communication Studies, Ben-Gurion University
Gidi Sand, Project Manager, CET, The Center for Educational Technology
Rupert Schäfer, Hubert Burda Media
Dr. Bracha Shapira , Department of Information Systems Engineering at Ben-Gurion University and Deutche-Telekom Laboratories at BGU
David Shay, Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia
Gadi Shimshon, Director of Tapuz Anashim, lecturer at Ben-Gurion University, and a pioneer of the internet industry in Israel
Adam Shuv, Director and Editor of TheMarker Café
Yoni Stern, President, Technology, Olive Software
Michael Weiss, Co-founder & CEO, Scoop.co.il - Israel's Citizen-Journalism Website
Dr. Tal Zarsky, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa
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