I am off to ConvergeSouth where there will be a fascinating Program.
Now, my session is entitled "Conquering Fear - Overcoming Social (Networking) Anxiety". If you walked into a session with this title, what would you expect to hear, want to hear, want to say?
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The APS March meeting is next week as 10000 physicists invade Portland, Oregon. I hope Powell's bookstore has stocked their science sections well!
Since I sort of implied a series in the previous post, and I have no better ideas, here's a look at Thursday's DAMOP program:
I hope to be blogging this meeting over the course of the next few days. Last STS meeting I attended computer note-taking was completely frowned upon but hopefully this one will be more modern. I'll be talking tomorrow in session 070.
I would expect it to help managers and IT managers to overcome their irrational fears of social networking sites. The impulse to ban access to such sites is too common. I say a little more about this on my blog
http://tinyurl.com/57rjxr
I just returned from hearing the ConvergeSouth discussion on this topic and it actually was quite interesting. The topic of social networking anxiety was more one of a discussion around the reluctance of scientists to comment online about scientific articles. The two reasons given for this hesitation to comment were 1) no time to be involved and 2) fear of retaliation if someone reading a comment felt it were unworthy or incorrect. It was a good discussion- perhaps worth repeating as a topic at the upcoming science blogging conference in January. I also think it would be useful for Boro to summarize in this blog what he learned from being the moderator of this session in the conference.