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April 29 - May 2, 2003 |
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World-class presenters will share their perspectives on key trends and developments
in collaborative online communities.
Presenters will address: |
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Key trends and developments in online collaboration and
communities |
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Case examples that provide illustrations of best practices
for creating, building, and using communities to drive organizational goals and
results |
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Models and tools that can be readily applied to community-focused
projects |
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Resources to help identify and select the best technologies
and processes for your own communities |
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| "I was surprised at how much enthusiasm
was generated by the participants in this on-line format, and impressed at both
the tools and techniques used to bring us into a community quickly and easily." |
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Barbara Densmore,
President, Working Smarter SP Ltd. |
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| "The iCohere Collaborative Learning conference
changed the way I think about conferences. It was easy, engaging and best of all,
collaborative!" |
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Greg Davis,
Director, eEngagement
American Express |
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Verna Allee, Senior Associate of KonvergeandKnow
and President of Verna Allee Associates
Verna Allee, M.A. is an internationally recognized thought leader and author in
value networks, knowledge management, intangibles, and new business models. Using
principles derived from living systems theory, Verna demonstrates how management
thinking and practices are evolving to support increasing levels of complexity
and network dynamics. As President and Founder of Verna Allee Associates, she
consults with a wide variety of organizations from global corporations and entrepreneurial
startups to government agencies. In addition her work is expanding to support
local and international cross-organizational networks.
Verna is a frequent keynote presenter at conferences nationally and abroad and
is a Fellow of the World Business Academy. She acts as advisor for special projects
in intellectual capital and the knowledge economy with Stanford University, the
Brookings Institution, European multi-organizational task forces, and Digital4Sight.
In July 2001, she was featured in the cover article of KM Magazine as one of the
top six movers and shakers in the knowledge management field. Her latest book,
The Future of Knowledge: Increasing Prosperity through Value Networks,
was released in September 2002. Her first book, The Knowledge
Evolution, (1997) is a continuing best seller in the knowledge management
field. |
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Jeanne Allert, Principal, Ellipsis Partners
Jeanne brings to Ellipsis Partners the success of various leadership roles in
nonprofit and for-profit enterprises with a particular expertise in eLearning,
Internet marketing, and strategic planning. Prior to Ellipsis, Jeanne was President/CEO
of an Internet company that built online communities for NPOs/associations.
As Director of Program Design for the Caliber Learning Network, her design team
was awarded Best Distance Learning Program for Corporate
Audiences and the company was recognized as the Most
Significant Advance in Distance Learning. She continues to provide counsel
on instructional design and presentation skills for web, video and satellite-based
education programs. As the Information Systems Director at the American Association
of Retired Persons, she led the full range of I.S. services including systems
analysis, strategic planning, technology research, technical training, and help
desk services. Before AARP, Jeanne designed technical training courseware for
the U.S. Intelligence Communities..
Jeanne serves as Adjunct Professor/Guest Lecturer on eMarketing for the Loyola
College in Baltimore and George Washington University, and the University of Connecticut
on topics in eGovernment. She is an international public speaker and frequent
contributor to industry publications. She was named One
of the Top 100 Women in Computing by McGraw Hill Publishers and awarded
the title of Outstanding Woman of Technology in
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Sara Byars, Communications Manager,
National Institutes of Health
Sara Byars is a communications specialist who believes that information is the
key to successful projects. Most of the past 10 years have been spent at the National
Institutes of Health's on-campus hospital, the Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical
Center. Currently she's overseeing communications for the Clinical Research Information
System project that will support clinical research at the new NIH hospital now
under construction.
She's former deputy chief of the Clinical Center's Office of Communications and
joined the NIH Clinical Research Information System project management team last
year. She has also held public affairs positions with the Department of Army in
Germany and the South Pacific, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
in Baltimore, and the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, Ms.
She's a graduate of Mississippi University for Women. |
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Tony Carr, Multimedia Research
Group, University of Cape Town
Tony Carr trained as an economics and business educator at University of Natal,
Durban and the Institute of Education of London University before committing to
the world of online learning community in 1998 while studying a Postgraduate Diploma
in Continuing Education and Training at City University in London. In his work
in the Multimedia Education Group, Tony collaborates with Glenda Cox in researching
online collaboration and mentors lecturers who use online interaction within their
courses at UCT. Tony also works as a freelance consultant and facilitator on elearning
and online collaboration projects based in South Africa. |
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Glenda Cox Researcher, Multimedia Research
Group University of Cape Town
Glenda Cox studied at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and has a Masters degree
in Archaeology. A career change two years ago saw her move into Multimedia Education
Group based in the Centre for Higher Education Development at UCT. Her role within
the group is one of researcher and also mentor of lecturers and facilitators using
online course components introduced by the Multimedia Education Group. Her specific
interests lie in analysing online conversations to try and understand how students
use online environments. |
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David Coleman, Managing Director Collaborative
Strategies LLC
David Coleman, Founder and Managing Director of Collaborative Strategies LLC (CS),
has been involved with groupware, collaborative technologies, and knowledge management
(KM) since 1990. He is a frequent public speaker, an industry analyst, and author
of books and magazine articles on electronic collaboration and knowledge management.
David is the author/editor of Groupware Technologies and
Applications (Prentice-Hall, 1995) and Groupware:
Collaborative Strategies for Corporate LANs and the Intranet (June, 1997).
He is currently working on a new book initially entitled
Winning the Collaboration Game: Strategies for Successful Collaboration in a Connected
World. Mr. Coleman has written for many publications including Fortune,
ComputerWorld, Datamation, Network World, Virtual Workgroups Magazine, DVC, CRN.
In 1997-98, he wrote a monthly column on groupware and KM for Computer
Reseller News. He has also written chapters in the Knowledge Management
Handbook (1999), and a chapter for a book on KM published by IBM in 1998. David
is currently the editor of Inside Collaboration,
a free monthly newsletter on electronic collaboration.
Collaborative Strategies is an industry analyst and consulting firm offering publications
and advisory services in all areas of electronic collaboration and knowledge management.
Collaborative Strategies works with both software vendors of these tools and end
users of these tools to develop winning sales and marketing strategies (for vendors)
and winning adoption strategies for end user organizations. David can be contacted
directly at davidc@collaborate.com and you can sign up for Inside Collaboration
at www.collaborate.com. |
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Mark Esfehani, Technical Director, SBC California
Vendor Operations
Mark Esfehani, Technical Director for SBC California’s Vendor Operations
team, provides systems and tools used in support of the telecom company’s
Alternate Channels division. Through this division, SBC Communications provides
business customers with alternative means of conducting business with the company.
These include distributor agreements, outbound business to business telemarketing
and account management services. Mark is a 23 year veteran of SBC California and
its former company – Pacific Bell Telephone Company. He has previously held
positions managing teams which provisioned complex voice and data services, led
call center teams during the introduction of the Small Office/Home Office initiatives,
worked as a Product Manager during product development for the Information Access
marketplace, serviced Small Business accounts as an Account Executive and started
with the company during the early 1980s in the Phone Center Stores.
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Soren Kaplan, Co-Founder, iCohere
Soren Kaplan is a co-founder of iCohere, a software and consulting organization
focused on building collaborative online communities for distributed teams, groups
and organizations. Along with the former Dean at John F. Kennedy University, Soren
started iCohere to enable people to engage together, online, in more human and
purposeful ways. Soren conceived of and produced the Collaborative
Learning and Collaborative Communities annual conference series as a way
to demonstrate, by example, the theory and practice of building online learning
communities.
Prior to co-founding iCohere, Soren held numerous positions at Hewlett-Packard
Company where he led an internal consulting group that assisted groups across
the company with strategic planning and organizational development. Before joining
HP, Soren was a consultant with Cambridge, MA based IdeaScope Associates where
he helped cross-functional teams collaborate to achieve new product and service
innovations. Soren holds Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Organizational Behavior
and has presented at institutions and universities, including the Creative Education
Foundation and the Harvard Business School, and has published a number of articles.
His most recent article, Building Communities – Strategies for Collaborative
Learning, appeared in the American Society of Training and Development’s
online journal, Learning Circuits. |
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Jon Lebkowsky, President, Polycot Consulting,
L.L.C.
Jon Lebkowsky, President of Polycot Consulting Group, has worked as project manager,
analyst, technology director, and online community director, focused primarily
on computer-mediated communications and transactions. He had nine years' experience
as a Systems Analyst and Project Manager with the Texas Department of Human Services
before leaving for the private sector. While working at TDHS, he became involved
in early Internet development through side projects, and was cofounder and CEO
of one of one of the first virtual corporations, FringeWare, Inc. He performed
consulting and contract work for companies such as Electric Minds and HotWired
before joining Whole Foods Market in 1997 as a leader in the development of their
Internet, intranet, and ecommerce initiatives He was Director of Web Technology
for WholePeople.com. A skilled communicator, he has written about technology for
publications such as Wired Magazine, Mondo 2000, 21C, Whole Earth Review, Fringe
Ware Review, and the Austin Chronicle. |
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Richard McDermott, President, McDermott Consulting
Richard has been designing knowledge-intensive organizations for nearly two decades,
working with engineering, professional service, sales, and manufacturing. He was
recently the subject matter expert for a national study on how to create a culture
that encourages knowledge sharing and is currently subject matter expert for a
similar study of communities of practice.
Prior to starting McDermott & Co., Richard worked in the Corporate Education
department at Polaroid Corporation, where he designed career development programs
for technical professionals and experienced first-hand the dilemmas of being a
knowledge worker. He was a Research Assistant at the Harvard Business School and
a faculty member at Lesley College, teaching management, organizational behavior,
and organizational change. |
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Christine Perey , President, PEREY Research
and Consulting
President of PEREY Research and Consulting and an independent consultant since
1991, Christine Perey builds, joins and leads professional teams driving new business
development, performing and applying market and technology research. She specializes
in the development of businesses targeting multimedia networks for corporate video
on demand streaming, broadcasting, videoconferencing and visual collaboration
services.
Christine works with leading computer and network component and systems vendors,
network services providers, and value added resellers. Clients have included Microsoft,
Cisco, Intel, Hewlett Packard, Polycom, VTEL, VCON, FVC, Avaya, Sprint, MCI and
many other established as well as emerging companies. In addition to consulting,
Christine collaborates with analysts and works independently to prepare quantitative
and qualitative analyses, and publishes results. Past reports published by PEREY
Research & Consulting, Inc. include studies on Networked Multimedia applications,
ROI analyses, specific vertical market trends and practical guides to deploying
specific technology suites, such as videoconferencing over IP and streaming media
in enterprise networks. Christine Perey is a widely-read freelance writer. In
the past ten years her features on networked multimedia technologies and their
usage have appeared in computing-, telecommunications- and information-oriented
magazines. She is most frequently published in Network World magazine where she
is also a member of the Network World Testing Alliance. |
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Phil Smith, CEO, Replay Rich Media
As CEO of Replay Rich Media, Phil manages sales and operations for the company.
Phil is an experienced business professional and dedicated community leader who
possesses over 15 years of manufacturing, start-up, and operations management
experience. Prior to founding Replay Rich Media, Inc. in 1999, Phil founded, managed
and orchestrated the successful sale of two technology/manufacturing companies
during the 1990’s. Phil was a founding member of the annual Children's Hospital
Race of Champions (CHROC). In its first four years, the CHROC raised approximately
$350,000 for the oncology unit at The Children's Hospital in Denver. Phil graduated
Summa Cum Laude from Regis University in Denver with a BS in Business Administration. |
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Jonathan B. Spira, CEO and Chief Analyst
Basex
Jonathan B. Spira, CEO and Chief Analyst, founded Basex in 1983. He is recognized
as one of the technology industry's leading thinkers and pundits, having pioneered
the field of Collaborative Business Knowledge, which is the intersection of content
management, portals, knowledge management, and collaboration. Mr. Spira, who directs
all Basex research and analytic activities, is a founding board member of the
Association of Internet Professionals whose columns
are syndicated widely. A recognized expert in Collaborative Business Knowledge
and related market segments, Mr. Spira makes frequent appearances speaking on
the future of technology and has authored hundreds of papers on technology issues.
He is the co-author of The History of Photography
(published by Aperture), which was named a best book of the year by the New York
Times, and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. He conducted graduate-level
research at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität (Munich). |
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Cynthia Typaldos, Founder and President of
the Software Product Marketing (SPM) eGroup,
Founder and former CEO of RealCommunities,
Co-Founder and former COO of GolfWeb
Typaldos is a two-time entrepreneur with 25 years of experience in software and
networking. She was previously founder and CEO of RealCommunities, an enterprise
software platform for collaboration (a.k.a. social networking) applications (acquired
by Mongoose Technology in 2001), founder and COO of GolfWeb, one of the first
dot.coms (acquired by CBS Sportsline in 1998), Director of Software Product Marketing
at Sun Microsystems, Group Manager of Product Marketing at Data General, and Senior
Systems Software Engineer at Bank of America.
She is widely recognized as an expert on web collaboration, online communities,
and social networking software, and has been featured in The New York Times, Fast
Company Magazine, WirtshaftesWoche Heute, several books on customer communities,
and quoted in the Wall Street Journal and other publications. Her 12
Principles of Civilization have defined the required functionality for
successful social networking software and online communities.
Typaldos created and taught various courses including Software Product Marketing
and Web Communities for UC Berkeley Extension for seven years in the mid to late
‘90s. She earned an undergraduate science degree and did graduate course work
in computer science at UC Berkeley and was awarded an MBA from MIT. |
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James Wolff, MD, MPH, MAT, Senior Fellow,
MSH, Electronic Products Group
James Wolff is a Senior Fellow at Management Sciences for Health, a non-profit
international public health management consulting company and an attending physician
in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Emerson Hospital in Concord, Massachusetts.
For over twenty years he has been both practicing emergency medicine and assisting
public and private sector health organizations in countries throughout the world
to improve their management. Dr. Wolff is an adjunct associate professor of International
Health at Boston University School of Medicine and has been a consultant with
USAID, the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Bank, and a number of private
organizations. He received a B.A. from Harvard College, a B.M.S. from Dartmouth
Medical School, a M.D. from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons,
and a M.A.T. and M.P.H. from Harvard University. |
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David Woolley, President, Thinkofit
David R. Woolley, president of Thinkofit, has been a pioneer in online conferencing
for over 25 years. In 1973 he created PLATO Notes,
one of the world's first conferencing systems and the direct progenitor of
Lotus Notes, DEC Notes, and many others. He has designed conferencing facilities
for many applications and has published a number of articles and book chapters
on the subject.
As the Executive Director of Twin Cities Free-Net,
David spearheaded the building of an online community designed to support the
neighborhoods of the Minneapolis - St. Paul metro area. For several years he has
served on the board of Minnesota E-Democracy, an
internationally renowned organization that uses Internet technology to engage
citizens in local political discussions. He is also a veteran in the fields of
interactive media and computer-based training, having designed a variety of authoring
tools and supervised the development of many CBT applications. |
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