Intellectual capital: the new wealth of organizations
Intellectual capital: the new wealth of organizations
Knowledge management systems: issues, challenges, and benefits
Communications of the AIS
Online Communities: Designing Usability and Supporting Socialbilty
Online Communities: Designing Usability and Supporting Socialbilty
NetWORKers and their Activity in IntensionalNetworks
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Recommending collaboration with social networks: a comparative evaluation
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Incorporating physical co-presence at events into digital social networking
CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Digital backchannels in shared physical spaces: experiences at an academic conference
CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Social matching: A framework and research agenda
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
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Proceedings of the seventeenth conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
Proactive displays: Supporting awareness in fluid social environments
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Glass onion: visual reasoning with recommendation systems through 3d mnemonic metaphors
SG'11 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Smart graphics
A buddy matching program to help build an online support network
Proceedings of the 24th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference
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Professional networking is a primary goal of people attending conferences and events. Over the past year we have developed an online social networking and community tool for events, Pathable, to help attendees meet the right people. Pathable provides an online directory of attendee profiles, communication tools, and a recommendation system optimized to help people find each other based on commonalities. We performed a questionnaire study at a pathable-enabled event to assess the importance of social networking, and found that quality of conversations and sense of community were strong predictors of who said they would return year after year. In addition, the more people used Pathable to meet others at the event, the greater their event attachment and sense of community. Based on lessons learned from an overview of seventeen Pathable-enabled events, we provide guidelines for leveraging social software to optimize professional networking and community development at events.