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<font color="#274e13" face="georgia, serif"><b>Call for Papers - Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS)</b></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-align:center">
<font color="#274e13" face="georgia, serif"><b>Savannah Ga, August 7-10, 2014</b></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
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<font color="#274e13" face="georgia, serif"><b>Mini-Track: Web and Social Intelligence</b></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<font color="#274e13" face="georgia, serif"><b>Track: Intelligence and Intelligent Systems (SIGODIS)</b></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
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<font color="#274e13" face="georgia, serif">Donald Heath, UNC Greensboro,<span class=""> </span><a href="mailto:drheath2@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">drheath2@gmail.com</a></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<font color="#274e13" face="georgia, serif">Jai Ganesh, Cognizant, India,<span class=""> </span><a href="mailto:Jai3.Ganesh3@cognizant.com" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Jai3.Ganesh3@cognizant.com</a></font></div>
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<font color="#274e13" face="georgia, serif">Rahul Singh, UNC Greensboro,<span class=""> </span><a href="mailto:r_singh2@uncg.edu" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">r_singh2@uncg.edu</a></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
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<font color="#274e13" face="georgia, serif">Enterprises are increasingly exploring Social Media Strategies to identify and engage their </font><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19);font-family:georgia,serif">stakeholders and build competitive differentiation. Content generated in social networking </span><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19);font-family:georgia,serif">environments might include discussion threads, logs of chat room conversations, contents of </span><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19);font-family:georgia,serif">blogs, and any other content posted by users. </span><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19);font-family:georgia,serif">The accumulated content and ideas within</span><font color="#274e13" face="georgia, serif"> successful social networking environments represent an aggregation of the collective </font><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19);font-family:georgia,serif">intelligence of the user community participating in those sites. The accumulated content can be </span><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19);font-family:georgia,serif">viewed as an asset whose value might be tapped through the right types of analyses. This asset </span><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19);font-family:georgia,serif">has potential value to both owners of the sites as well as the organizations whose products and</span><font color="#274e13" face="georgia, serif"> services being discussed. It presents significant implications for enterprises wanting to leverage </font><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19);font-family:georgia,serif">social networks to draw insights and inferences on user participation and preferences </span><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19);font-family:georgia,serif">expressed in networks. </span></div>
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<span style="color:rgb(39,78,19);font-family:georgia,serif">Multiple inference options exist for understanding the behavior of online </span><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19);font-family:georgia,serif">social networks. One area of analysis is that of focusing on the content purely, to try to discover </span><font color="#274e13" face="georgia, serif">concepts, facts or opinions from the content posted by users. A second type of analysis is to </font><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19);font-family:georgia,serif">focus on the users themselves to discover networks (or sub-groups) in the community and to </span><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19);font-family:georgia,serif">learn how those sub-groups get formed or change. We invite submissions which explore these </span><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19);font-family:georgia,serif">or other analytic approaches to identifying and tapping the value of the content and ideas which </span><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19);font-family:georgia,serif">accumulate within social media environments.</span></div>
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<font color="#274e13" face="georgia, serif">Conceptual, empirical and design-oriented works are welcome and will be considered for this </font><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19);font-family:georgia,serif">mini-track.</span></div>
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<font color="#274e13" face="georgia, serif">* Potential topics for manuscripts include but are not limited to:</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19);font-family:georgia,serif">Social Media enabled value creation strategies</span><br></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19);font-family:georgia,serif">Social Media based organizational value-webs</span><br>
</li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19);font-family:georgia,serif">Impact of Social Media on organizational strategies</span><br></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19);font-family:georgia,serif">Organizations and virtual communities</span><br>
</li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19);font-family:georgia,serif">Information Quality issues in Social Media</span><br></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19);font-family:georgia,serif">Social Recommender Systems</span><br>
</li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19);font-family:georgia,serif">Internal & External Social Media Strategies of enterprises</span><br></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19);font-family:georgia,serif">Message propagation in Social Networks</span><br>
</li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19);font-family:georgia,serif">Crowdsourcing</span><br></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19);font-family:georgia,serif">Opinion mining</span><br>
</li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19);font-family:georgia,serif">Social network analysis</span><br></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19);font-family:georgia,serif">Organizational Network Analysis</span><br>
</li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19);font-family:georgia,serif">Open-Innovation models for collaboration on Social Media</span><br></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19);font-family:georgia,serif">Social Networks (Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Discussion Forums)</span><br>
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<font color="#274e13" face="georgia, serif">*Submission:*</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
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<font color="#274e13" face="georgia, serif">All submissions are to be made via the AMCIS 2014 submission system at </font><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19);font-family:georgia,serif"><a href="http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2014" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2014</a>. The submission deadline is March 1, 2014. No </span><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19);font-family:georgia,serif">submissions will be accepted after midnight, Savannah (EST) time, March 1, 2014. Authors will </span><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19);font-family:georgia,serif">be notified as to whether their submission was accepted, conditionally accepted, or rejected by </span><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19);font-family:georgia,serif">April 4, 2014.</span></div>
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<font color="#274e13" face="georgia, serif">*Important dates:*</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
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<font color="#274e13" face="georgia, serif">March 1, 2014 Submission Deadline</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<font color="#274e13" face="georgia, serif">April 4, 2014 Author Notification</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<font color="#274e13" face="georgia, serif">April 18, 2014 Revision Deadline</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<font color="#274e13" face="georgia, serif">April 25, 2014 Camera Ready Submission Deadline</font></div></div><br><br></div>