AOM 2010 Conference Coverage
Pre-Conference 1 | Pre-Conference 2 | Planned Schedule
Monday Live-Blog | Post-Conference
The following is a live-blog/log of Twitter messages from the first day of academic material at the AOM 2010 conference. My service commitments were pretty high this day, so I only managed to sit in on one session – it was pretty interesting though.
10:28:47 AM: Chairing measurement symposium… Interesting stuff
11:59:31 AM: In Sociomateriality and Virtual Worlds
12:00:58 PM: Missed first paper (thanks shuttle!) but looked like a basic demonstration of SL anyway
12:04:26 PM: Hmm… If your virtual self does not agree with your actual self, what happens? #secondlife #aom2010
12:10:15 PM: Do you integrate your avatar into your identity or do you keep them distinct? #secondlife
12:14:38 PM: Some people experience dual agency with their virtual selves #secondlife #aom2010
12:21:41 PM: SL user decided to virtually be involved with multiple partners to get over 1 difficult relationship. That’s not unique to virtual #aom2010
12:26:30 PM: Speaker talking about backchannel during lectures… Briefly considered waving iPad I’m on now at her #aom2010
12:30:49 PM: Still haven’t heard specific use of VWs that can’t be done with other, cheaper, easier software… Still hoping though
12:35:23 PM: Discussant bringing up tech comparison studies…
12:37:48 PM: Getting an air of dismissal from discussant… Maybe it’s just me
12:42:39 PM: Predominant reason for an org to use #secondlife is to reduce travel costs? Ugh #aom2010
AOM 2010 Conference Coverage
Pre-Conference 1 | Pre-Conference 2 | Planned Schedule
Monday Live-Blog | Post-Conference
It is always the case with good conferences that there are more sessions of interest than there is time to see them, however frustrating that might be. Especially frustrating for me personally is that service commitments cut further into the time I have available!
What follows is a list of the sessions and events I’d like to attend. I won’t make it to all of them, for a variety of reasons. But you can at least get a sense of what I’ll be attending (and live-blogging, when possible). Bold entries are sessions where I will be presenting and/or chairing, which makes live-blogging those events unlikely.
| Day/Time | Session | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Monday, August 9 | ||
| 8:00 – 11:00 | HR Division Welcome Breakfast and Awards Ceremony | Sheraton, Salle Ballroom |
| 8:00 – 9:30 | Evolution of the Video Game Industry | Le Palais des Congres, 516C |
| 8:00 – 9:30 | Virtual Worlds and Online Communities | Le Palais des Congres, 511C |
| 9:45 – 11:15 | Measurement: Assessing the Validity of Measures of Cultural Values, Personality, and Integrity | Sheraton, Musset |
| 11:30 – 13:00 | Using Innovative Technology in Research Methods | Delta, St-Laurent |
| 11:30 – 13:00 | Entangled Reality: Sociomateriality and Virtual Worlds | Le Palais des Congres, 511C |
| 13:15 – 14:45 | Change and Dynamic Environments | Le Palais des Congres, 515C |
| 13:15 – 14:45 | Decision Making: The Role of Complexity and Biases | Delta, St-Charles |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | Supervisor Support in the Workplace | Queen Elizabeth, Hochelaga 1 |
| Tuesday, August 10 | ||
| 8:00 – 9:30 | Using the Internet to Innovate | Le Palais des Congres, 512F, Table 2 |
| 9:00 – 10:10 | OB Lifetime Achievement Award: Terry Mitchell | Sheraton, Salle West Ballroom |
| 9:45 – 11:15 | Employee Training and Learning | Sheraton, Hemon |
| 9:45 – 11:15 | Making Management Connections Through Online Social Networking Sites | Le Palais des Congres, 511D |
| 11:30 – 13:00 | Online Communities and Communities of Practice | Le Palais des Congres, 515C |
| 13:15 – 14:45 | Online Social Media in Our Professions and Professional Lives | Le Palais des Congres, 521B |
AOM 2010 Conference Coverage
Pre-Conference 1 | Pre-Conference 2 | Planned Schedule
Monday Live-Blog | Post-Conference
First, the good. There’s wireless access in each conference hotel.
Second, the bad. It’s very limited in users, at least in the Sheraton. Gordon Schmidt and I gave a professional development workshop today on social media. We were unable to log in to the network, so we enlisted the help of a Sheraton staff member who told us that the wireless connection was limited to 50 connections. 50! For a conference as popular as AOM, that’s pretty obviously too few.
We did get the situation worked out though, and Internet access was available for us during the presentation. Although that was not the end of our technical problems.
In any case, things are otherwise going quite well! I attended the HR Jr Faculty Consortium dinner afterward and was convinced there that the full-day program tomorrow will be spectacular, so I am looking forward to that.
Given the wireless situation, I am hopeful that live-blogging Monday and Tuesday will go well, but you never really know. I plan to post a tentative schedule later this weekend – but so far, it looks like it will be a little light this year. I am participating in a panel discussion and caucus on social media, as well as chairing a session on measurement, so free time for attending presentations is a smidge hard to come by.