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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.6pt"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0070c0">Call For Education Minitrack Proposals</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#222222">We invite the submission of minitrack proposals to the 19th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2013), which will be held on August 15-17, 2013 in Chicago. AMCIS 2013 brings together academics and industry professionals around the world to exchange knowledge related to the AMCIS 2013 theme, <strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Hyperconnected World: Anything Anywhere Anytime</span></strong>.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Minitrack chairs will be responsible for a) promoting their minitrack to generate manuscript submissions to AMCIS 2013; b) soliciting and assigning reviewers for manuscripts submitted to the minitrack; and c) making recommendations to track chairs about each manuscript submitted to the minitrack. Each of these important dates and activities are identified on the AMCIS 2013 website.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Those interested in submitting a minitrack need to identify the related track for their topic. The AMCIS 2013 program is comprised of 29 tracks. For a full list of tracks and descriptions, visit: </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"><a href="http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=55&Itemid=58" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155cc;background:#d9d9d9">http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=55&Itemid=58</span></a></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#222222">To submit a minitrack proposal,</span><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> </span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">you must submit a) minitrack chairs (names, emails, affiliation); b) minitrack title; c) short description of minitrack for the AMCIS 2013 website (up to 150 words); d) call for papers for your minitrack. To submit a minitrack proposal, visit:<br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"><a href="http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2013_minitracks/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155cc">http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2013_minitracks/</span></a></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">And</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"><a href="http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=84&Itemid=60" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155cc">http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=84&Itemid=60</span></a></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Important Dates:</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">To view the full schedule of activities for minitrack chairs, visit: <br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"><a href="http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=53&Itemid=57" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155cc">http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=53&Itemid=57</span></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">October 1, 2012: Submit minitrack proposals to Bepress (new submission system for AMCIS)<br>October 18, 2012: Minitrack proposals due<br>
November 19, 2012: Revised Minitrack proposal due<br>January 4, 2013: Manuscript submissions for AMCIS 2013 begin</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="word-spacing:0px"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Geoffrey Dick</p><p class="MsoNormal">Professor, Information Systems</p><p class="MsoNormal">Georgia Southern University</p>
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