Hazel Hall, Reader Napier University, UK. Hazel is a track speaker on day two of the conference
Day 2: Track 1 - Risk 2.0 Or opportunity 2.0 - hype or hope
Q: Which are the most important topics, for you personally, due to be discussed at the Online Information Conference 2008 and why?
Hazel: Topic: Social computing tools and their application in business to support collaborative work practice. Why: my main research interest is information sharing in online environments, in particular how to motivate people to information share. Social computing tools have great potential here.
Q: Apart from your own, which tracks would you recommend to delegates attending the conference?
Hazel: Clay Shirky's keynote (I would recommend delegates read Here comes everybody over the next few days); immediately afterwards track 1 "Web 2.0 after the buzz: Innovators under the spotlight - who stayed the distance" (to find the two Euan/Ewans simultaneously on stage together is a treat not to be missed); track 1 on Wednesday 11.45-13.00 "New ways of working: socialising, collaboration and innovation - exploiting social networks".
Q: What are you looking forward to most about participating in Online Information 2008?
Hazel: Catching up with colleagues/friends from the industry. I particularly enjoy seeing graduates from Queen Margaret and Napier University who are now in established careers. For many of them, their first ever contact with Online was to attend with me as students, and in some cases the three days in London very much influenced their later career choices. I'm hoping to see as many of the graduates as possible together this year at 15.30 on Wednesday 3rd December in the bar/café next to Theatre F.
Q: If you had to choose only one - which social network would you recommend to colleagues?
Hazel: I'm a Facebook fan.
Q: And finally, just out of interest - where are you planning to spend Christmas this year?
Hazel: On one of the big sofas at my parents' house in Northumberland, in front of the fire, with a pile of novels, a ready supply Viennese truffles and weak black tea at hand, and an eye on the window to watch out for the red squirrels scampering across the lawn.
About Hazel Hall
Dr Hazel Hall is Reader in the School of Computing at Napier University, Edinburgh. Her main research interest is information sharing in online environments. She has published widely on this theme, and most recently was involved in a project exploring risks and opportunities of the adoption (or non-adoption) of social computing tools within organisations for collaborative working from the perspective of the priorities of information and knowledge management. The main sponsor of this work was TFPL Ltd, to whom Dr Hall was seconded in 2006, supported by a grant from the Royal Academy of Engineering. As well as maintaining an active role in the external academic community, Dr Hall has worked with a number of organisations on information and knowledge management projects. These include public sector bodies such as Scottish Enterprise, large companies such as KPMG and Sun Microsystems, and small and medium-sized enterprises.
http://www.dcs.napier.ac.uk/~hazelh/esis/hazel.html
For more information, or to view the conference programme in full, please visit:
www.online-information.co.uk/conference
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