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Together with Steve Wheeler and Martin Ebner I could place another paper on Twitter at the WCC 2010 conference. Its title “All I need to know about Twitter in Education I learnedin Kindergarten” as well as the basic rules derive from Robert Fulghum’s 1988 book “All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten“. During my diploma studies I wrote an article about the basic principles of pair programming that was adapted from the Fulghum book and thought: “one day you’ll borough these rules as well…” I’m pretty excited about the result:

Abstract:

Share everything.
Play fair.
Don’t hit people.
Put things back where you found them.
Clean up your own mess.
Don’t take things that aren’t yours.
Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody.
Wash your hands before you eat.
Flush.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
Live a balanced life – learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Take a nap every afternoon.
When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together.
Be aware of wonder.

Latest draft version:
All I need to know about Twitter in Education I Learned in Kindergarten

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After the WCC 2010 decided to cancel all workshops we could place our publication in another track of the WCC 2010 conference (Key Competencies in the Knowledge Society). The title of the paper is: “Getting Granular on Twitter: Tweets from a Conference and their Limited Usefulness for Non-Participants”.

Abstract:

The use of microblogging applications (especially Twitter) is becoming increasingly commonplace in a variety of settings. Today, active conference participants can post messages on microblogging platforms to exchange information quickly and in real-time. Recent research work was based on quantitative analyses in terms of the number of tweets or active Twitter users within a specific time period. In this paper, we examine the content of the contributions and aim to analyze how useful posts are for the “listening” Internet auditorium. It can be shown that only a few microblogs are of interest for non-participants of the specific event and that meaningful usage of a microblogging application requires greater care than previously anticipated.

Final draft:

You can find the final draft of our paper on Scribd.
Getting Granular on Twitter: Tweets from a Conference and their Limited Usefulness for Non-Participants

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This week I had the opportunity to present the idea of Artefact-Actor-Networks at the CollaborateCom 2009 conference in Washington D.C. – a conference mainly focussing on collaborative computing and its applications in networking and at the workplace.
Abstract:

Social networks reflect communication, cooperation and loose acquaintances in networked communities. Numerous metrics allow to expose connections, important persons or clusters within these communities. Furthermore, networks can be spanned to connect documents, blog entries or wiki articles. We call such a network an artefact network. In this paper we introduce the approach of Artefact-Actor-Networks that tries to connect social networks and artefact networks in order to make claims on the semantical connections between persons and manifold artefacts. We present practical use cases for Artefact- Actor-Networks and discuss generic and specific semantical requirements and added values through the existence of Artefact-Actor-Networks.

Reference: W. Reinhardt, M. Moi, and T. Varlemann: Artefact-Actor-Networks as tie between social networks and artefact networks. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Collaborative Computing (CollaborateCom’09), November 2009.

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Therese and me wrote a paper for this year’s ICIQ conference in Potsdam, Germany on the study we conducted during her masters thesis. Within her thesis Therese was developing a wiki set of criteria for assessing information quality especially designed for the need and specials of corporate settings.

Update: Our paper won the Stuart Elliot Madnick Best Paper Award. Thanks to the committee.

The final draft of the paper is available online at Scribd.

Reference: T. Friberg and W. Reinhardt: An Empirical Study on Criteria for Assessing Information Quality in Corporate Wikis. In: 14th International Conference on Information Quality 2009.

AN EMPIRICAL STUDY ON CRITERIA FOR ASSESSING INFORMATION QUALITY IN CORPORATE WIKIS

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We could place another (german) paper at the GeNeMe 2009 conference in Dresden. My former diplomate Therese Friberg will present the findings of her masters thesis, an empirical study on factors for information quality in corporate wikis.

Reference: Therese Friberg and Wolfgang Reinhardt: Ergebnisse einer empirischen Studie zu Informationsqualitätskriterien in Corporate Wikis. In: Proceedings of the GeNeMe 2009, 01./02.10.2009, Dresden.

Here are the slides that will be presented at the conference:

This is the latest draft version of the publication:

Ergebnisse einer empirischen Studie zu Informationsqualitätskriterien in Corporate Wikis

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This is a german publication and it deals with a metrics-based approach for expert finding and visualization. The paper’s context is the MoKEx project where I am involved as student supervisor. It will be presented at the GeNeMe 2009 conference in Dresden this week.

Reference: Wolfgang Reinhardt, Alexander Boschmann, Andreas Kohring, and Christian Meier: Expertenfindung in komplexen Informationssystemen – Ein Metrik-basierter Ansatz. In: Proceedings of the GeNeMe 2009, 01./02.10.2009, Dresden.

Here are the slides that are going to be presented:

And this is the publication:
Expertenfindung in komplexen Informationssystemen – Ein Metrik-basierter AnsatzMe09 RaMBo CRC Online

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Our second publication from the MASHl09 workshop at the ICL conference 2009 is also available online.

Abstract:

Classical tools for supporting software engineering teams (collaborative development environment, CDE) are designed to support one team during the development of a product. Often the required data sources or experts reside outside of the internal project team and thus not provided by these CDEs. This paper describes an approach for a community-embedded CDE (CCDE), which is capable of handling multiple projects of several organizations, providing inter-project knowledge sharing and developer awareness. The presented approach uses the mashup pattern to integrate multiple data sources in order to provide software teams with an exactingly development environment.

Reference: W. Reinhardt and S.Rinne: An Architecture to Support Learning, Awareness, and Transparency in Social Software Engineering. In: International Conference on Interactive Computer Aided Learning (ICL 2009).

An Architecture to Support Learning, Awareness, and Transparency in Social Software Engineering

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My publication about “Tracking the dynamics of social communities – Visualising altering word clouds of Twitter groups” from the MASHL09 workshop at the ICL 2009 conference is available online.

Abstract:

Twitter has gained a lot of attention in the last three years. It is used in various use cases from discussing at conferences, taking personal notes or live coverage of prominent events. Communities in Twitter are forming through the usage of a common tag that is part of the message. This paper presents an application for monitoring and visualising the dynamics in such communities, especially dynamics in the written communication of the community and presents approaches to make this application part of a mashup of services in a Personal Learning Environment.

Reference: W. Reinhardt:Tracking the dynamics of social communities – Visualising altering word clouds of Twitter groups. In: International Conference on Interactive Computer Aided Learning (ICL 2009).

Tracking the dynamics of social communities – Visualising altering word clouds of Twitter groups

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Here ist the 3rd and last presentation I’ll give at the ICL 2009 conference in the Special Track on Mashups for Learning. It’s about a tool we implemented to track the dynamics in communities on Twitter and treats the CoP at the Edumedia 2009.

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These are my slides for the presentation at MASHL09 Special Track at ICL 2009 Conference later today. Let’s see what the Mashup experts tell me about the idea of connecting several tools in the context of software engineering…

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