All: First, please allow me to introduce myself .. my name is Sudhir Raghupathy, and I am a recent MBA graduate from Case Western University in Cleveland, Ohio. I was intrigued by your conversation as it comes at an opportune time to share my view - I agree wholeheartedly with Tom and John : that the future of conferencing lies in Virtual Conferencing. While I concede there is value in face-to-face connection, this could be catered to regional audiences, thus minimizing travel expense, time lost, and environmental impact (fuel expenditure, emissions).
Perhaps this is a good segway to provide an exemplar of such a virtual conference : it is the Second Annual Conference for Business as an Agent for World Benefit. If the goal and misison of this mailgroup is to collaborate to help close the Digital Divide - conferences like this one need to be accompanied with efforts to provide maximal access to the internet for all the world's citizens. This conference, which I have helped to promote and support, represents one of the most noble goals I have ever known. Here are the details for the conference - THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL ON-LINE CONFERENCE Shaping Tomorrow�s Business Leaders Today: Changing Society by Changing Management Education February 24-25, 2005 The event is free, but registration is required. Please click here or call (216) 368-3809 to register If link above doesn't work: http://www.weatherhead.case.edu/bawb/forms/conferenceFeb05.cfm The 2005 Online Conference: You are invited to participate in the 2nd International On-line Conference for Business as Agent of World Benefit. This event will be held entirely on-line through collaboration with our technology partner iCohere, Inc. The unique on-line environment offers an exciting new forum for conferencing - with participants attending from their home or office around the world as their schedules permit. Using this exciting new approach for online collaboration, the conference will focus on exploring ways that management teachers and scholars can shape tomorrow's business leaders by integrating business and society into the classroom. Keynotes Include: � Judith Samuelson - Founder and Executive Director of the Business and Society Program at The Aspen Institute � Ellen Kallinowsky � Head of United Nations Global Compact Learning Forum � David Cooperrider - Professor and Chairman of the World inquiry for Business As An Agent of World Benefit, at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University Call for Submissions: We invite you to submit case studies, curriculum examples (including readings, syllabi, example assignments, etc.), dialogue starters, and workshop proposals that relate to the conference theme. Details about the various kinds of submissions and how to submit materials can be found on our website. Any questions, contact: Lindsey Godwin, Research Associate for the B.A.W.B. World Inquiry, at [EMAIL PROTECTED] We welcome your partipation in this important educational opportunity! I welcome the opportunity to get to know change leaders like yourselves better - feel free to contact me! Kindest and Best Regards, Sudhir Raghupathy Founder, Cleveland Net Impact www.net-impact.org Tom Abeles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: John has hit the nail on the head. First, for a "global flow" conference its decidedly being seen through US eyes. Secondly, the home base for the conference organizers is the Yale Law School which further narrows the scope of the conference and finally, as John has so perceptively picked up on, its a conference where most of the materials could just as easily be put up as a web cast or even as web pages with comment software to allow exchanges between all. And, in that respect it is anachronistic. Additionally, in most of these cases, panelist have expenses covered making the movement of bodies to the conference a decidedly costly event when most could be "conferenced". This conference provides a brilliant opportunity to better understand where the golobal flow of information is, today. thoughts? tom abeles John Hibbs wrote: > With all due respect, Eddan, why do I have to travel to Yale to > participate in the conference? Arguably, Web based conferences are > better than physical ones. And a whole lot cheaper. > > Nope, we can't duplicate the warm and fuzzy the comes from shoulder to > shoulder linkages at physical conferences. But everything else can be > done exceptionally well, especially for attendees of a kind that are > likely to attend the Global Flow of Information Conference. > > NOTE: Several times we have tried to hold combination conferences - > where there are virtual and physical attendees. I am not sure these > work well enough to justify the work and handicaps. However, I deeply > believe in the idea that "one-to-many" lectures and power point > presentations (in all their glory) should be put up on the web in > advance of the physical convention. Attendees can do themselves a real > service by viewing these presentations in advance, leaving more time > for Q&A....the best part of all lectures, in my opinion. > > At 7:08 AM -0500 2/3/05, Eddan Katz wrote: > >> The Information Society Project at Yale Law School is proud to announce >> that registration is now open for The Global Flow of Information >> Conference 2005, which will take place on April 1-3, 2005, at the >> Yale Law School. >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! 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