Description: Every four years the presidential campaigns get way out ahead of everyone else in the use of interactive technologies. What is their experience to date? Introductory comments: Michael Slaby / Obama for America Link: Obama social network http://my.barackobama.com  It helps that the candidate has a lot of youth appeal.  Hundreds of thousands of friends [...]

Question: Should you break out into other communities like myspace and facebook to get the word out on your community? Is it worth the time? Question: Should you have to maintain separate views and keep your relationships, reputation, and identities straight? Question: Is there a central verifiable key for children? Question: What is the definition [...]

10:00 – 11:00 Session 4 / What Works? A Report from the Front Edge of Community Research Description: What does current research tell us about effective strategies in the design and management of online Communities? Introductory comments: Paul Resnick / University of Michigan "How do you get participants in online communities to participate more and [...]

Introduction from Peter Cohen / Amazon.com. Four years ago turned mechanical turk into a product. Background Story about the ancient machine that people thought could play chess when the reality was that there was a chessmaster hidden inside. Belief that there is power in online communities if you can only bring the people together for [...]

At the start of the conference everyone asks the question they'd like to walk away with a better answer for. Here is a sampling of the questions asked. How is social media forcing changes to corporations present themselves online? How do folksonomies change how people find and organize information? How do you stand out from [...]