Online Social Networks to Support Community Collaboration Workshop
June 24, 2009 Watch Live on http://bambuser.com/channel/conniemwhite
Presenter: Gideon F. For-mukwai Originally from Cameroon, Gideon is the founder and Chief Preparedness Officer at XtrMile Emergency Solutions and author of "Facing Adverstiy with Audacity" (2008). He has been an active workshop leader for over 6 years, working with several groups and organizations around the world. He has worked extensively in emergency management and safety in Asian and Southern Africa. He was previoulsy a senior fire officer with the Singapore Civil Defence Force where he served in multiple roles. Initially, he was a commander of a HazMat special response team and subsequently appointed to serve as a senior instructor in charge of corporate training programs. During his tenure as a senior instructor, he trained thousands of uniformed officers from Police, Navy, Civil Defence and several fire officers from over 17 countries from the Caribbean to to Asia. In 2004, he founded XtraMile Solutions, a training solutions company that specializes in emergency preparedness for communities and corporations. He has since delivered training programs in Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, South Africa, the U.S. and Canada. Currently, Gideon is a graduate fellow in the final phase of studies toward an MA degree in Interactive Environmental Journalism at the Reynolds School of Journalism, University of Nevada, Reno. His final paper is focused on the Integration of Social Media into Emergency Management and it explores counties can adopt the use of social media in the mitigation, preparedness and response to emergencies and disasters. He currently serves as the President of the International Council, International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM). In this position, he coordinates activities of regional emergency representatives based in Southern American, Middle East and Africa.
Presenter: Miriam Belblidia
Miriam Belblidia received her MPA degree in urban and regional affairs from the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public & International Affairs, focusing on civil security and disaster management. Miriam worked as a member of the Interactive, Intelligent, Spatial Information Systems (IISIS) socio-team at the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Disaster Management, researching response networks for communities at risk of flooding in the Pittsburgh region. Prior to joining the IISIS team, Miriam interned with the Center for Hazard Assessment, Response, and Technology (CHART) at the University of New Orleans and coordinated evacuation efforts with the New Orleans Office of Emergency Preparedness. She is currently studying the use of information technology in facilitating community resilience.  Guido
Lang is a PhD student and Adjunct Lecturer in Information Summary
The aim of this workshop is to examine the possibilities and potential applications Online Social Networking Sites have for communities in a variety of complex problem domains. Online Social Networking Sites (SNS) are being created to fulfill a multitude of social communicative needs and are fostering productive group dynamics. Social Networks have existed and been studied, but how communities can transfer their needs to an online environment is underexplored and is the scope of this workshop. Through this workshop we will discuss how communities and organizations are using these networks to replace and augment traditional avenues of communication, the types of communities that may benefit the most, and what untapped functionalities may exist. What does the future hold for SNS? Will SNS change the way we work in the future?
Objectives of Workshop Online social networks have the potential to aid communities of practice in a variety of domains and promote cross-organizational communication and effectiveness. This is a nascent area of study. A goal of this workshop is to develop an understanding of how these network services can be used, what functionality would be required, and what issues (and how to overcome them) exist that can impede their use. An additional focus is to explore the potential use of Online Social Networking Sites to support more complex entities in the future and forecast what potential they hold for domains and uses not yet envisioned. A few highly creative and insightful papers will be selected for discussion. The session will end with participants engaging in a visioning session using Delphi methods to capture important insights, challenges, and design/development needs.
Organization Full day workshop Brief introduction by Workshop Keynote Speaker Objectives Presentations Feedback and Group Discussion Group participation on Delphi: Future Uses of Social Networking Sites and Services. Discussion, Delphi Results, and Conclusion of Workshop
Organizers
Connie White earned her PhD from New Jersey Institute of Technology. She presently holds the position of Research Fellow with the Crisis Communication Research Project within the School of Media Arts at Columbia College, Chicago. Her current work explores how Web 2.0 technologies can be leveraged in the emergency domain. She recently published a book titled Social Media, Crisis Communications and Emergency Management: Leveraging Web 2.0 Technology. Her dissertation, A Dynamic Delphi System to Support Decision Making by Large Groups of Crisis Management Experts, focuses on the creation of a crisis management system that is used by large groups dispersed geographically where decisions must be made under uncertainty and among domain driven subgroups. Her dissertation is due out as a book in 2012. Her research interests include Social Networking, Decision Making, Thurstone’s Law of Comparative Judgment, Artificial Intelligence and Emergency Management. Homepage: http://sites.google.com/site/conniemwhite/ USA - linda.plotnick@gmail.com Jacksonville State University
Linda Plotnick, PhD in Information Systems at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Her dissertation work is on Leadership in Partially Distributed Teams engaged in software development of an EMIS. She also conducts research in the emergency domain including threat rigidity, Web 2.0 (e.g., SNS) and the emergency domain, and the development of a unified emergency scale. Homepage: http://sites.google.com/site/lindaplotnick/ Jane Kushma, Jacksonville State University, USA - jkushma@jsu.edu Jane Kushma, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Emergency Management at Jacksonville State University in Alabama. She has been involved in emergency management teaching, research and practice since 1981. Her current interests include the use of online social networking tools to aid in the management of disasters. |
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