[Asis-l] The Impact of Social Media on the Future of Scholarly Communication

[Tara Mani Dahal]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Jill O'Neill <jilloneill at nfais.org> wrote:

> NFAIS Forum on the Impact of Social Media on the Future of Scholarly
> Communication:  Registration Discount Available Through April 10th.
>
> The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIST) is
> organizing a one-day meeting - Social Media and the Future of Scholarly
> Communication - to be held on May 1, 2009 at PALINET Headquarters, in
> Philadelphia, PA, from 9:00am to 4:30pm.  Specifics may be found at:
> http://www.nfais.org/events/event_details.cfm?id=55
>
> Why Attend?
>
> The traditional process of scholarly communication is changing. Information
> technology, the Web, and the introduction of 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.  On or before
> April
> 10, 2009, NFAIS members pay $295 and non-members pay $345 (registration fee
> includes continental breakfast, a box lunch and an afternoon refreshment
> break).  After April 10, 2009, 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/.
>
>
> http://www.nfais.org/events/event_details.cfm?id=55
>
> Jill O'Neill
> Director, Planning & Communication
> NFAIS
> (v) 215-893-1561
> (email) jilloneill at nfais.org
>
>
>
>
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