A Special issue of Human Technology: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Humans in ICT Environments will focus on Distributed Leadership & Online Communities. It will be edited by Niki Lambropoulos and Dr. Leslie Gadman of London South Bank University, London, UK.
Distributed Leadership and Online Communities Leadership refers to top down, bottom up, and distributed management.The key objective is to look into the importance of online communities in participatory decision making in companies and organizational and governmental institutions. The editors hope that contributions to this issue will go beyond the current state of the art by looking at future prospects and emerging applications.
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit a manuscript or a 2-page manuscript proposal no later than July 31, 2008. All will be notified by August 31, 2008 about the status of their proposals. Full rough drafts are expected to be submitted by November 30, 2008 for blind peer review.
Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) to:
Niki Lambropoulos
Researcher, Online Community Architect & Business Analyst PhD student at the Centre for Interactive Systems Engineering London South Bank University London, UK e-mail: niki@lambropoulos.org
For more information see:
The Human Technology Journal site and
the editors' facebook page.
The webinar, Online Collaborative Integration: Working Across Disciplines, was archived. Here is the link to the Elluminate recording: https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/event/description?instance_id=11024. Also, Diane Cline created a visual record of the session, see: http://www.vision2lead.com/paradigm.jpg. (To see more of her interesting work, visit her portfolio at http://www.othconsulting.com/portfolio.htm).
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Here is an interesting example of videoconference as a research and networking tool!
The three aboiginal regional management organizations in Northern Manitoba, Northern Ontario (K-Net) and Northern Quebec have recently formed a consortium (Northern Indigenous Communities Satellite Network-NICSN) to extend satellite based broadband and thus videoconferencing capability into a number of other remote communities in the region with long term (11 year) support from the Canadian government. See:http://meeting.knet.ca/moodle/mod/resource/view.php?id=3467
Three new videos highlighting the importance of videoconferencing in First Nations are now available online for your viewing pleasure (click on the following videos to watch them)
http://media.knet.ca/videocom_final Videoconferencing in Community Development
http://media.knet.ca/women_in_leadership_final Videocom - Women in Leadership Workshop
http://media.knet.ca/language_vc_final Videocom - Native Language Maintenance and Development
The March Videocom "update" is entitled - Encouraging urban organizations to
videoconference with remote and rural First Nations. This one page PDF
document is available for download at http://meeting.knet.ca/moodle/file.php/50/2008-March-Videoconferencing.pdf
