Community Networking Space for CIL 2008

 

Test Drive CIL '08s  Networking Space

Join CIL 2008's beta test with Swift, a new online community platform forconferences.  Experiment with us by going to www.imswift.com, signing up and connecting Swift to your Facebook, and seeing what our CIL speakers and community have contributed.

For a tutorial on how to get the most out of this space, go here.

 


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    Jason Griffey:Tim: If Swift is an aggregator vis a vis unique tags, why would we use this instead of relying on something like Technorati? At least Technorati is open to the world...I see what Swift is trying to do, but it still strikes me as social networking that can be sold to conference organizers, and not anything of actual use to participants and presenters. We're already doing all the things Swift is promising with free, open tools. Where's the value-added?
    Jane Dysart:Thanks everyone for playing, testing and pointing out areas for improvement -- exactly what a beta test is -- trying, learning, and moving forward. See you at CIL soon where we hope the conversations continue.
    Tim Halle:Greetings: My name is Tim Halle and I am the product manager for Swift. I want to first thank everyone for their input and then address some of the concerns people have raised. So what is the big picture for Swift and how does it work? Without getting into marketing speak or arguing about who's got the best mousetrap, in general it's to allow users to share and aggregate content around a specific event. This is done by providing an index of content using the structure of an event as its backbone. Each session has an individual tag which users can use to tag material relevant to that session in flickr, delicious, and on blogs which then appears on Swift. Speakers have some additional privilages, notably the ability to add links to supplemental content on their bio pages. Each page has it's own RSS feed allowing users to track updates of a given session or of the entire event. This can be incorporated into a wide variety of applications, the most obvious being blogs and news readers. On top of this, there is also a social networking function provided by hooking into the Facebook API. Unfortunately I just discovered this Wiki limits posts to 2000 characters and you guys had alot of questions and issues, more than I can address in 2000 characters. I have tried to address them by putting a lengthy post up at http://groups.google.com/group/swift-testers/browse_thread/thread/a4bf05215750309a, which is now open to anyone who wants to participate. I am happy to address any further concerns the community may have and will be monitoring the swift support email @ support@imswift.com Best Regards Tim Halle Product Manager Swift
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