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This time in Aachen!

Important Dates:

Regular Paper Submission: November 13, 2012
Authors Notification (regular papers): January 15, 2013
Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: February 5, 2013

Submission Deadline: February 5, 2012

The growing amount of available data on the WWW is a new opportunity to improve Messaging systems (i.e. EMail, Social Media, Instant Messaging) communications, processing and presentaion. This workshop is dedicated to explore how public web data, such as identities, agendas or various information published on the web can meet private Email data (semi-structured headers, information extracted from emails, footers such as signatures, etc.) to bring new insight for users, and prevent error or abuse. Reciprocally, private communications can become public (think about public email archives, leaked email datasets, etc.), but need to implement web standards to be efficiently distributed and linked. This private/public duality, applied to Email, is the basis of this workshop, which goes beyond technical aspects and aims at exploring impacts on users’ practices, interfaces and trust.

COOP 2012 will be the tenth COOP conference and twenty years on from the first conference in 1992 we are asking practitioners to reflect on what have been the successes and the failures, and what are the remaining challenges in our relevant domains. It will take place in Marseille , France. The conference aims at bringing together researchers who contribute to the analysis and design of cooperative systems and their integration in organizational unity, public and otherbsettings, and their implications for policy and decision-making.

Submission deadline: Jun7, 2012

The ECSCW website is up and running.

Important Dates

Regular Paper Submission: November 14, 2012
Authors Notification (regular papers): January 16, 2013
Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: February 6, 2013

Draft papers/extended abstracts submission: February 1st, 2012

Submission deadline Jan 16th

Motivation

Modern enterprises face a strong pressure to increase agility and competitiveness, to operate on the global market, and to engage in manifold alliances. However, the vast majority of strategic initiatives in enterprises fail, meaning that enterprises are unable to gain success from their strategy. The key reason for these failures is the lack of coherence and consistency among the various components of an enterprise. At the same time, the need to operate as a unified and integrated whole is becoming increasingly important. Currently, these challenges are dominantly addressed from a functional or managerial perspective, as advocated by the management and organization sciences, and as implemented in MBA programs. Such knowledge is indeed necessary for managing an enterprise, but it is inadequate for bringing about changes. To do that, one needs to take a constructional or engineering perspective. Only engineers bring about changes.
In addition, both organizations and software applications are complex systems, prone to entropy. This means that in the course of time, the costs of bringing about similar changes increase in a way that is known as combinatorial explosion. Entropy can be reduced and managed effectively through modular design based on atomic elements.
Lastly, the individual persons in an enterprise, in cooperation, are ultimately responsible for the effective and efficient operation of the enterprise. They are also collectively responsible for the evolution of the enterprise, in order to meet new challenges. These responsibilities can only be borne if members have an appropriate knowledge and an effective awareness of the construction of the enterprise.

Fenster oder Gang? Hühnchen oder Lasagne? Beim Fliegen kann man sich vieles aussuchen, nur den Sitznachbarn nicht. Was bisher dem Zufall überlassen ist, will KLM nun planbar machen - mittels sozialer Netzwerke wie Facebook.

Some general purpose tips, but not really clear if they address the external or internal communication.

Adding a robust enterprise social network to your priority agenda is a must. Here's how to get going.

This somehow reminds me of the classic article by Jonathan Grudin about "Eight challenges for Groupware developers"

Most of what is written about collaboration is positive. Even hip. Collaboration is championed enthusiastically by the Enterprise 2.0 experts, as well as leading thinkers like Don Tapscott, as the crucial approach for the 21st century.

So why is collaboration as rare as it is?

The short answer is that collaboration is dangerous. Inherently, collaboration says something is happening outside of one's immediate control. This by itself seems threatening to some, but there are several specific reasons why it appears dangerous: