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<p class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">The
Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS) 2013, Jeju Island,
Korea, June 18-22 2013, </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.pacis2013.org"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">www.pacis2013.org</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></p>
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<p class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Social Media and Business Impact </span></p>
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<p class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">We
have received many requests to extend the submission deadline for papers for
PACIS 2013. We therefore decide to extend the deadline to submit papers by two
weeks. We look forward to receive your paper by no later than <b><u>February
16, 2013</u></b>. Please make sure that you submit your paper(s) by this new
deadline</span></p>
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<p class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">The
PACIS 2013 Organizing Committee cordially invites paper submission. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">The PACIS</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> 2013 will be held on 18-22 June 2013 in Jeju Island, Korea
(</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.pacis2013.org"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">www.pacis2013.org</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">). The
conference location, Jeju Island, known as the "Island of the Gods,"
is selected as one of “New 7 Wonders of Nature (</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.new7wonders.com/"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">http://www.new7wonders.com/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">).” PACIS
2013 participants will have the opportunity not only to build and maintain
connections with IS scholars in Asian region, but also to experience the
excellent natural beauty of Jeju Island. </span></p>
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<p class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">All submissions will be in English and will be double blind
reviewed. The conference accepts completed research papers or
research-in-progress papers. All submissions should be submitted through
EasyChair system (</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pacis2013"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pacis2013</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">)</span></p>
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<p class=""><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Track Description</span></b></p>
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<p class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">The Internet greatly facilitates the creation and exchange
of user-generated contents within and across web sites, hence making such
related sites and media increasingly “social.” (The phenomenon is also termed
as Web 2.0.) Indeed, social media can turn traditionally fragmented user-inputs
into all kinds of value co-creation. People share knowledge, interests,
bookmarks, product consumption experiences, etc. on various platforms including
blogs, social networking sites, virtual social worlds, collaborative projects,
content communities, and virtual game worlds. By facilitating access to
user-generated contents, social media have become a democratic, personalized,
and do-it-yourself platform of communications as well as practical tools to
extract collective intelligence. Companies can sense crowd opinion on products
on social media and are devising innovative methods to attain insights from
user-generated contents for developing their competitive strategy.</span></p>
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<p class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">The fundamental objective of this track is to assimilate the
best practices and insights from academic and industry research to support
social media and to understand how online social media impact individual
behavior and organizational performance. We expect to identify the key design
features of social media, unveil psychological and behavioral factors
underlying the diffusion and growth of social media, address economic and
organizational impacts of social media, and explore different ways to manage
fragmented user-generated knowledge for effective business analyses. Also, the
track is expected to demonstrate innovative methods of handling data from
social media to analyze business implications of the “wisdom of crowds.”</span></p>
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<p class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</span></p>
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<p class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">1. Latest development of Web 2.0 technologies</span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">2. Challenges and opportunities of social media
design</span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">3. Strategic use of social media to improve firm
performance</span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">4. The value of social media to the society</span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">5. Creative design of social media for
individual learning or decision making</span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">6. Social media based commerce</span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">7. Cooperation in social media</span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">8. Web 2.0 and knowledge sharing</span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">9. Privacy issues in Web 2.0</span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">10. Social network analyses</span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">11. The use of social media in crowd sourcing</span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">12. Social business models</span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">13. Online communities</span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">14. Cloud computing
using social media</span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">15. Open innovation
via Web 2.0</span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">16. Social media and
collective intelligence</span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">17. Harness social
media data to increase business performance </span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">18. Social recommender systems </span></p>
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<p class="" style="margin-left:1.3pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">High quality
and relevant papers from PACIS 2013 will be fast-tracked to the Special Issue
of several journals, including <b><i>Information and Management, Journal of
Global Information Management, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications,
Information Systems Frontiers</i></b>, and <b><i>Asia Pacific Journal of
Information Systems</i></b>.</span></p>
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<p class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Important
Dates</span></p>
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<p class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Paper
Submission Deadline: <s>February 1, 2013</s>; <b>February 16, 2013</b></span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">DC
Nomination Deadline: March 15, 2013; </span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Paper
Decision: April 1, 2013; </span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">DC
Decision: April 15, 2013; </span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Submission
Deadline of Accepted Papers: May 1, 2013</span></p>
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<p class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">The
conference is supported by the Association for Information Systems and hosted
by the Korea Society of Management Information Systems (KMIS), which is the
largest IS professional institute in Korea.</span></p>
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<p class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">For
more information, please visit the conference website (</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.pacis2013.org"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">www.pacis2013.org</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">) or contact track
co-chairs:</span></p>
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<p class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Habin Lee, Brunel
University – <a href="mailto:Habin.Lee@brunel.ac.uk">Habin.Lee@brunel.ac.uk</a></span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Hong Joo Lee, Catholic
University of Korea - <a href="mailto:hongjoo@catholic.ac.kr">hongjoo@catholic.ac.kr</a> </span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Sean Xin Xu , </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';background-color:white">Tsinghua University -
<a href="mailto:xuxin@sem.tsinghua.edu.cn">xuxin@sem.tsinghua.edu.cn</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"></span></p>
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<p class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">We
look forward to seeing you in Jeju Island in Korea in June 2013!</span></p>
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