THATCamp Canberra » social professional network mapping http://thatcampcanberra.org The Humanities And Technology unconference, 28–29 August 2010, University of Canberra Sat, 25 Jun 2011 02:29:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Conference Profile Network Visualisation http://thatcampcanberra.org/2010/08/23/conference-profile-network-visualisation/ http://thatcampcanberra.org/2010/08/23/conference-profile-network-visualisation/#comments Sun, 22 Aug 2010 23:37:33 +0000 joannemihelcic http://thatcampcanberra.org/?p=280 One of the things that amazes me everytime I go to a conference is how interesting people are in terms of their interests – personal, professional and academic. If you’re lucky and socialise effectively you may meet people who have similar interests or simply inspire you to approach your topic from a different perspective.

I’m curious to see how a simple tool could be developed and used for mapping these interests and specialties from the profiles of individuals – maybe when they register for a conference/unconference. Could this be done in a way that participants can see possible common themes, relationships, hot spots for finding people or workshopping?

This could be useful for conference organisers as well as participants.

Would love to know of any tools – if any – are already out there.

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