Examples of Uses for Instant Communities
Any CS member can create a new community, and instantly have a place for discussing Computer Society related topics. Examples of communities we hope to see active here include:
• Discussion of emerging technologies ...
• Conference participants, following up on particular tracks or topics
• Standards Working Groups, discussing particular aspects of a standard
• Published papers, providing for follow-up discussion of the concepts raised
• Focused topic discussions, often pointing to the papers, conferences, webinars and other resources useful to understand the topic
• Chapter groups (student, or section) providing for coordination of events, speakers, etc.
• Section or regional contests or support for pre-college events
In short -- a chance to connect with a set of your colleagues, ones you know, and others you may not know, world wide, to initiate your discussions.
Conference Participants
Every IEEE-CS (co-)sponsored Conference could offer an instant community to all registered, paid attendees and authors, with the possible usage of:
- "LinkedIn" view of attendees & authors
- Pre-conference discussion on
- potentially best / exciting presentations / papers
- favorite / best speakers
- conference location specific interests / logistics
- determine affinity groups
- During the Conference, discussion using both web and Twitter on
- potentially best / exciting presentations / papers
- conference location specific interests / logistics
- networking; meet me at poster session #xyz
- Post-Conference
- Sharing other good and related information sources (within IP limits)
- Ways of using knowledge ("take aways") from conference
- Sharing with non-attendees knowledge from conference with option to buy IP
