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<P><B><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></B><A HREF="http://socialnetworkphilippines.blogspot.com/2010/01/invitation-3rd-social-networking.html"><B><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=4 FACE="Times New Roman">Invitation: The AFME Web 2.0 and Social Networking Conference 2010</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></B></A><B><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></B><B><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Times New Roman"> twined with the UQAM roundtable on New Social media </FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P ALIGN=CENTER><B><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=5 FACE="Times New Roman">'Social Networks: Evolution, Revolution or a Fad ?<BR>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman">December 15-20 2010<BR>
First hotel Bangkok Thailand</FONT></SPAN></B><SPAN LANG="en-us"><BR>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">The</FONT><B> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">AFME</FONT></B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> first International Conference on Social Networks is an event geared towards academic and professionals, in technical, managerial area of digital enterprises interested to gain knowledge as to how this industry is working and evolving under the pressure of these new media. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">We welcome technical papers presenting research and practical results, position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific proposals, such as those being discussed in the standard forum, survey papers addressing the key problems and solutions on any of the above topics short papers on work in progress, and panel proposals.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">This conference brings the intelligence, innovation, and leadership of the social networks industry together in one place at one time. In the Social Networking industry, several sectors show large potential for revenue: </FONT></SPAN></P>
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<LI><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Enterprise Social Networking, intra-corporate or Business Social Networking, embedding social networking for enterprise applications allowing for idea sharing and increased business performance thru new collaboration tool.</FONT></SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Mobile networking : will mobile usage of the internet eclipse other computers usage? Mobile based carriers in North American now open way to third party solutions, which should be valuable to European based business</FONT></SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> Social networks, Web 2.0 for Education</FONT></SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">E-government and social networks</FONT></SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Social Networks and web design </FONT></SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Marketing</FONT><B> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">of and in</FONT></B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> the social networks</FONT></SPAN></LI>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">But these new developments raise new concerns</FONT></SPAN>
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<LI><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">What will be the evolution of SN in terms of sociology, new technologies and trends, new advances ?</FONT></SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">How to approach the needed security?</FONT></SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">How to protect privacy? </FONT></SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">What are the appropriate and inappropriate use of SN in organizations?</FONT></SPAN></LI>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Other issues will be also considered. </FONT></B></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">The topics suggested by the workshop can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, standards, implementations, running experiments and applications. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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Presentation types and conditions to be included in proceedings of the Conference</FONT></SPAN>
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<LI><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><A HREF="http://site.aace.org/conf/categories.htm"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">Full Papers</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> (max 5000 words)</FONT></SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><A HREF="http://site.aace.org/conf/categories.htm"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">Brief and research in progress Papers</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> (max 2000 words)</FONT></SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Tutorials (max 1 hour, teaser 500 words)</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="fr-ca"> </SPAN></LI>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">For the roundtable (max 1 hour, teaser 500 words) will be published in the proceedings</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN>
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<P><B><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">The best papers will be published in the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="fr-ca"> </SPAN></B>
<BR><B><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></B><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://www.gmrjournal.com/"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">http://www.gmrjournal.com/</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><B><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> (Journal of Global Management Research)</FONT></SPAN></B>
<BR><B><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">or</FONT></SPAN></B><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://www.cyber-gestion.com/default.asp"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">http://www.cyber-gestion.com/default.asp</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><B><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> (E-Journal of Digital Enterpris) </FONT></SPAN></B>
<BR><B><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">IMPORTANT NOTICES: </FONT></SPAN></B>
<BR><B><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">a) Presentation can be made in french or in english but slides must be in english</FONT></SPAN></B>
<BR><B><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">b) Communication papers can be written in French or in English for the proceedings and the journals</FONT></SPAN></B>
<BR><B><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Important deadlines:</FONT></SPAN></B>
<BR><B><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Proposal November 14th</FONT></SPAN></B>
<BR><B><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Acceptance November 28th</FONT></SPAN></B><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="fr-ca"> </SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Registration, payment and </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Camera ready for inclusion in proceedings </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">December 10th</FONT></B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> </FONT></SPAN>
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<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">General program :</FONT></B></SPAN><B><SPAN LANG="fr-ca"></SPAN></B>
<BR><B><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">15-16-17: conference </FONT></SPAN></B>
<BR><B><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">18-19: visit and & social networking</FONT></SPAN></B>
<BR><B><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">20: roundtable </FONT></SPAN></B>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Venue cost includes : </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Shuttle from and to airport </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">3 nights at First Hotel </FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">NB: the hotel is 2 minutes away from Pratunam (huge styore for cloth and fashion) as well as IT City (7 floors of technology ) . Participants can extend their stay at special discount price</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Information request and reservation can be made at</FONT></B> </SPAN><A HREF="mailto:afmeSN2010@gmail.com"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U></U></SPAN><U><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">afmeSN2010@gmail.com</FONT></SPAN></U><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> </FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="fr-ca"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Professor Michel Plaisent, PhD </FONT></SPAN><A HREF="mailto:michel.plaisent@uqam.ca"><SPAN LANG="fr-ca"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">michel.plaisent@uqam.ca</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="fr-ca"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="fr-ca"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">University of Quebec in montreal </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">or Dr. Pascal Pecquet</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">president AFME</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="fr-ca"></SPAN><A HREF="mailto:p.pecquet@free.fr"><SPAN LANG="fr-ca"><U></U></SPAN><U><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">p.pecquet@free.fr</FONT></SPAN></U><SPAN LANG="fr-ca"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="fr-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN>
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