Recently, I was asked to be a keynote speaker at the CTC conference on October 19 here in Chapel Hill. As a former member of the CTC, it’s an honor (and it feels so fancy to be a keynote anything). Here’s the abstract of my talk, entitled “The Social Revolution: How our Connections will Change Technology”:
The web has long been a medium of personal expression. Newsgroups, mailing lists, personal websites and blogs have enabled our conversation, our sharing, our creation of identity. Recently, socially-enabled technologies, and social networking in particular, have transformed the ways we think about our content and identity production. Sites like Facebook, Myspace, Flickr and Last.fm, adopted by hundreds of millions, are revolutionizing industry and creating socially-enabled models that will be followed for years to come. As with any web technology, these social changes have come in the blink of an eye, and they are very generationally-targeted.
In this talk, we’ll explore social technology: what is is, how it is
applied, why it works, and why it fails. We’ll explore a number of popular applications, exploring how social architecture adds value to technology. Most importantly, we’ll explore the lasting implications of this social revolution – how it will change technology, and the expectations of our users for years to come.
I don’t believe that this talk is open to the public, but I will be doing a preview presentation at Duke University on the Tuesday prior (October 17) that is open to the public. These talks mark a somewhat new direction in my work – I will be leveraging my previous work to explore some of the ramifications of social technologies.
Oh yeah, lunch will be provided at the Duke talk – I expect to see you there ;)
Tags: conference, social networks, social software, speaking
It sounds like a very interesting talk. For those of us on the “other” coast, it would be great if you could post your notes or presentation materials (or a podcast would be even better)!
Can’t make lunch either but a podcast would be much appreciated – good luck with the presentation!
I will definitely post my slides online, and I will see if there won’t be video/audio recording of the presentation. More info to come and thanks for your interest!