Events as Social Media at the GLOBAL Plaza http://globalplaza.org/ - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Events as Social Media at the GLOBAL Plaza

http://globalplaza.org/

• Prof. Juan Quemada

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

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VCC metaphor

• “Internet Event”

Centre Videoconference room, desktop, mobile* + Streaming + Publishing: as social media in the social network *under development

• Open software

http://isabel.morfeo-project.org/

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Traditional or Social Media

• Traditional Media
• Produced professionally to be consumed
• Distribution: one-to-many -> Monologue
• Social Media
• Produced by users -> to share & mash-up
• Distribution: many-to-many -> Dialogue

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The GLOBAL Plaza model

Collaborative Service

Space Space ’ Space ’’ Space ’’’

GLOBAL Social network

• Global Social Network
• All GLOBAL Plaza members
• Collaborative Space
• Group access only
• Event social network
• Generate Social Media
• Publication of Social Media
• Members decide if
• Public or private

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GLOBAL Plaza: usage

• Events belong to spaces
• Create/announce event
• invite participants
• Event takes place
• Recording published
• as social media

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GLOBAL Plaza Workflows

Publish recording as social media Schedule & plan event

• r activity

Perform distributed Isabel event Share & mash-up Prepare documments & distribute Invite attendees Register Stream event over the Internet Remote participation Input to next meeting ............

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Publication Streaming

• r participation

Event announcement

http://vcc.dit.upm.es/spaces/isabel/events/introduccion-a-isabelv5-open-source

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http://globalplaza.org/spaces/global/events/geant2-a-global-leader-2? show_video=361

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Examples

• TNC 2010: Plenary session 9h to 10h30
• http://globalplaza.org/spaces/terena/events/tnc-2010
• TNC 2009 and 2008
• http://globalplaza.org/spaces/terena/events
• Belief Symposium (Johannesburg)
• http://globalplaza.org/spaces/global/events/5th-belief-symposium?show_video=13
• http://globalplaza.org/spaces/global/events/5th-belief-symposium?show_video=11
• 5tf EGEE Users Forum (Uppsala)
• http://vcc.dit.upm.es/spaces/egee/events/5th-egee-user-forum
• More events in: http://globalplaza.org

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Event use cases

• Lecture recording in University classrooms
• Streaming + recording + publication
• Event broadcasting from room or auditorium
• Streaming + recording + publication
• Bring remote speaker to conference or meeting
• From home, work place or when travelling
• Web-conferencing meeting
• From home, work place or when travelling
• Distributed congress or conference
• With several auditoriums interconnected

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The social network

• Event Participants network
• For remote participants to

contact each other

• Drives interaction after the

meeting

• Event recordings published
• To be reused and mashuped

with docs, data, etc

• Global Social Network
• Relates events
• Via participants

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GLOBAL Project

• Performs “GLOBAL Networking Sessions”
• Set-up of “Virtual Conference Centre (Global Plaza)”
• Event centric collaborative Web site
• http://globalplaza.org
• GLOBAL Partners:
• ZSI, Austria
• UPM, Spain
• Agora Systems, Spain
• Red CLARA, Uruguay
• UCL, UK
• JSI, Slovenia
• Ubuntunet, Malawi
• + Network of collaborators

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Thanks & Questions

• http://globalplaza.org

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