Friday September 19

8.15 Registration and coffee

09-00 –17:00 Workshops at the Rode Hoed

15:00 - 17:00 Tuturial

Social Capital and Knowledge Sharing

by Larry Prusak(IKM, USA) at the *Bungehuis, Spuistraat 210*

17:30 – 18:30 Welcome reception and registration, Amsterdam Historic Museum

Saturday September 20

8:45 – 09:15 Registration and Coffee at the Felix Meritis in the Foyer

9.15 – 10.30 Opening and Invited Talk

The Networked Future of Communities

by Barry Wellman(University of Toronto, Canada) at the Felix Meritis (Concert Zaal)

Track A in the Concert Zaal

11:00 – 12:30 Features of Communities of Practice (Chair: Larry Prusak)

Practice Matters: A relational perspective on cross-communal knowledge sharing;

Carsten Østerlund (School of Information Studies, Syracuse University, USA), Paul Carlile (Sloan School of Management, M.I.T., USA)

Structural Analysis of Communities of Practice: An Investigation of Emergence, Job title, and Location;

Joan T. Allatta (The Wharton School, USA)

Differentiated Communitarian Structures in a Biology Laboratory;

Frédéric Créplet , Olivier Dupouët (CNRS PEGE, France) Emmanuelle Vaast (CRG Ecole Polytechnique, France)

Track B in the Shaffyzaal

11:00- 12:30 Networked communities (Chair: Keiichi Nakata)

We Can See You: A Study of Communities’ Invisible People through ReachOut,

Vladimir Soroka, Michal Jacovi, Sigalit Ur (IBM Haifa Labs, Israel)

Email as Spectroscopy: Automated Discovery of Community Structure within Organizations;
Joshua R. Tyler, Dennis M. Wilkinson, Bernardo A. Huberman (HP Labs, USA)

Multimedia Fliers: Informal Information Sharing With Digital Community Bulletin Boards;

Elizabeth F. Churchill, Les Nelson, Laurent Denoue (FxPAL, Palo Alto, USA)

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch in the Zuilenzaal

13:30 – 15:00 Knowledge sharing within work communities (Chair: Giorgio di Michelis)

Knowledge Sharing in Knowledge Communities;

Bart van den Hooff, Wim Elving (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands), Jan Michiel Meeuwsen (TNO Work & Employment, The Netherlands), Claudette Dumoulin (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Information Sources and Access in Work Communities: An Internet-era case study;

Anabel Quan-Haase (University of Toronto, Canada), Joseph Cothrel (Participate Systems, USA)

Communities and other social structures for knowledge sharing - A case study in an Internet Consultancy Company;

Inkeri Ruuska, Matti Vartiainen (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland)

13:30 – 15:00 Community and Civic engagement (Chair: Volkmar Pipek)

Intranets and the Creation of Local Community: ‘Yes, an intranet is all very well, but do we still get free beer and a barbeque?’;

Michael Arnold, Martin R. Gibbs, Philippa Wright (The University of Melbourne, Australia)

Learning and Collaboration across Generations in a Community

Mary Beth Rosson, John M. Carroll (Virginia Tech, USA)

The African Dream - a Pan-African E-community Project;

Denise Biggs (University of the Western Cape, South Africa), Carol Purnell (Field Officer, Open Africa)

15:30 – 17.00 Social Capital and communities (Chair: Charles Steinfield)

The Role of Social Capital in Regional Innovation: Seeing both the wood and the trees.

Louise Tamaschke (The University of Queensland, Australia)

Weak Ties in Networked Communities;

Andrea Kavanaugh, Debbie Denise Reese, John M. Carroll, Mary Beth Rosson (Virginia Tech, USA)

A Bayesian Computational Model of Social Capital in Virtual Communities;

Ben Daniel, Juan-Diego Zapata-Rivera (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)

15:30 – 17:00 Communities and knowledge utilization and identification (Chair: Peter Carstensen )

I-DIAG: From Community Discussion to Knowledge Distillation;

Mark S. Ackerman, Anne Swenson, Stephen Cotterill, Kurt DeMaagd (University of Michigan, USA)

The Role of Knowledge Artifacts in Innovation Management: The case of a chemical compound designers CoP;

S. Bandini, C. Simone, E. Colombo, G. Colombo, F. Sartori (Universita' di Milano-Bicocca, Italy)

Supporting an Experiment of a Community Support System: Community Analysis and Maintenance Functions in the Public Opinion Channel;

Tomohiro Fukuhara (Communications Research Laboratory, Japan), Masaki Chikama(Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan), Toyoaki Nishida (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

18:00 – 19:00 Boat round trip on Amsterdam canals

19:00 Diner at Restaurant De Vijff Vlieghen, Amsterdam Centre

Sunday September 21

Conference venue Felix Meritis

09:00 – 09:30 Coffee in the Foyer

09:30 – 10:30 Invited talk

Cities, technologies, communities - the case of Amsterdam

by Peter van den Besselaar(NIWI, The Netherlands ) at the Felix Meritis in the Concert Zaal

11:00-12:30 Panel in the Concert Zaal

Titel: "From Here to Where? The Future of Communities and Technologies"
Chair: Marleen Huysman (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Panalists: Giorgio DeMichelis (University of Milano-Bicocca),

Larry Prusak (Consultant, Cambridge MA),

Suzie Weisband (University of Arizona),

Barry Wellman (University of Toronto)

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch in the Zuilenzaal

Track A in the Concert Zaal

13:30 – 15:00 Problems in On-line Communities (Chair: Suzanne Weisband)

Patients’ Online Communities Experiences of Emergent Swedish Self-help on the Internet;

Ulrika Josefsson (Department of Informatics, Göteborg University, Sweden)

When Users Push Back: Oppositional New Media and Community

Leah A. Lievrouw (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

Babel in the international café: a respectful critique

Beverly Trayner (Escola Superior de Ciências Empresariais, Portugal)

Track B in the Shaffyzaal

13:30 – 15:00 Learning and Communities (Chair: Gerry Stahl)

Synchronizing Asynchronous Collaborative Learners

Johan Lundin (Viktoria Institute, Sweden)

Community Support in Universities – The Drehscheibe Project

Michael Koch (Technische Universität München, Germany)

Adding Connectivity and Loosing Context with ICT: Contrasting learning situations from a communitiy of practice perspective

Patricia Arnold (University of the Bundeswehr Hamburg, Germany) and John D. Smith (Learning Alliance)

15:30 – 16:30 Invited talk

Communities of practice: reflections of the zeitgeist
by Etienne Wenger(CPsquare, North San Juan,USA) in the Concert Zaal

16:30-17:00 Conference Closing