[Announcements] Call for items for the September 29, 2011 Sakai Newsletter

[Josh Baron]

Margaret,

Might I have time to squeeze one in for this newsletter? If not, could you 
put this in the next one?

Thanks, Josh

Call for Sakai to Participate in W3C Social Business Jam (8-10 November 
2011).

At a recent meeting with IBM, I learned about a "Social Business Jam" that 
the W3C is sponsoring to explore a range of issues around the topic of 
deployment of social media within business settings.  I mentioned some of 
the work that is taking place within the Sakai Community, both through the 
work on Profile 2 in the CLE and the work around academic networking being 
done with OAE, and there was a high level of interest in the use cases 
around them.  The "jam" (which is an open online collaboration session 
that spans several days) is free to participate in and those at W3C and 
IBM would be very interested in having folks from the Sakai community who 
have been working on issues around social media/networking participate.  I 
am including some more information below and a link to where you can get 
more details and register (which opens Oct. 11th)

Josh Baron
Senior Academic Technology Officer
Marist College

The W3C Social Business Jam is an online conversation among leaders from 
around the world about the current state of social business, the future 
role that social technologies can play in improving the bottom line, and 
how social technology should evolve in order to support business 
objectives. A primary objective of the Jam is to cooperatively explore key 
trends and concepts in social business with an eye towards how social 
standards can facilitate business goals. The Jam should produce a better 
understanding for participants of how businesses are using social 
technologies and the challenges they face integrating the technologies 
into their existing environments.
Exploring new business approaches

The rapid growth of social networking inside and outside businesses as 
well as the ability to access social technologies from mobile devices 
enables employees to tap into the experience of others to accomplish 
anything – ranging from problem solving to the way goods and services are 
purchased. How does this affect your business?
A world-wide, web-based event

The W3C Social Business Jam is a world-wide web-based event that takes 
place over a 72 hour period. A variety of business and technical 
discussions will take place online. Key decision makers and leaders in the 
social business space, both from business and technology providers, will 
attend the Jam to lend their insights to the discussion.
Building a blueprint for Social Business

In keeping with the cooperative nature of the social revolution, W3C will 
summarize key findings and highlight creative ideas generated during the 
Jam and share this content with the participants. The output of the 
discussion serves as a collaboratively created blueprint for continued 
discussions in community groups at W3C.

REGISTER AND GET DETAILS AT: http://www.w3.org/2011/socialbusiness-jam/

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Joshua Baron
Senior Academic Technology Officer
Marist College
Poughkeepsie, New York  12601
(845) 575-3623 (work)
Twitter: JoshBaron



From:   Margaret Wagner <mwagner at umich.edu>
To:     announcements at collab.sakaiproject.org
Date:   09/26/2011 09:40 PM
Subject:        [Announcements] Call for items for the September 29,  2011 
Sakai Newsletter
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Please send suggestions for items for the Sakai Newsletter by 12:00 
noon EDT (GMT -4) on Wednesday, September 28, 2011 to:


Margaret Wagner
mwagner at umich.edu


Thanks!
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