Several of the workshops in the Communities and Technologies 2007 Conference may be of interest, in particular Digital Cities 5: Urban Informatics, Locative Media and Mobile Technology in Inner-City Developments; Organizers: Marcus Foth and Fiorella De Cindio.

The workshops for the Communities and Technologies 2007 Conference are now announced on the C&T web site.

All workshops are actively soliciting participants now. This year’s workshops include:

1. Community Informatics Beyond the Case Study: Using the TOP Data Archive; Organizers: Kate Williams and Ann Bishop
2. BOF – Between Ontologies and Folksonomies: Tools and Architectures for Managing and Retrieving Emerging Knowledge in Communities; Organizers: Dario Maggiorini, Alessandro Provetti, and Laura Anna Ripamonti
3. Past, Present, and Future Impacts of Communication Technologies on Healthcare Communities; Organizers: Pamela Whitten, Michael Mackert, and Lorraine Buis
4. Digital Cities 5: Urban Informatics, Locative Media and Mobile Technology in Inner-City Developments; Organizers: Marcus Foth and Fiorella De Cindio
5. Studying Interaction in Online Communities: From Data Sources to Research Results; Organizers: Thomas Lento, Howard Welser, Eric Gleave, and Marc Smith
6. Communities of Practice in Highly Computerized Work Settings; Organizers: Aditya Johri and Volker Wulf
7. ICT for Business Clusters in Emerging Markets, Organizers: Souyma Roy, Shantanu Biswas, and Kurt DeMaagd
8. Social construction and implications of research infrastructures; Organizers: Peter van den Besselaar and Rob Proctor
9. The paradox of communication: Towards a society of inattention? Organizer: Filippo Dal Fiore
10. Memory practices in computer-mediated communities: a research methods workshop, Elisabeth Davenport and Howard Rosenbaum
11. Public Practices, Social Software: Examining social practices in networked publics, Organizers: danah boyd, Nicole Ellison, and Scott Golder
12. Coaching community leaders on community cultivation and technology integration, Organizers: John D. Smith and Lauren B. Klein
13. Implicit Online Communities, Organizers: Mu Xia and Wenjing Duan

Conference website: http://ebusiness.tc.msu.edu/cct2007/