intersections of talks and networking

Over at CARET's JISC Academic Networking project, things have been very busy lately, with an intensive six-week user-centric design sprint to create, prototype, test and refine concepts to support academics with communications around teaching and learning. The project is all about bringing some of the affordances of consumer social networking tools to academia, using commercial-style user-centric research and design methods.

Without scooping our sister project's results, I can say that interestingly, "events" turned out to be a very strong paradigm behind one of the concept strands. This is very exciting from an EGRET point of view, and we're following the parallel work closely to see what it might bring for Talks.cam in the future and looking out for opportunities together.

Looking forward to meeting everyone again in Birmingham tomorrow! (And for those of you who track these things carefully, yes, I have been to Fitzbillies today...)