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Hi my name is Mark Sylvester with intro Networks and I want to welcome you to
SIGGRAPH Asia Connect. This network is designed to connect
all the attendees coming to Hong Kong this November
you'll be sent to login and the password once you have that
enter it and click the enter button. First thing you'll see when you come in
is your profile now your profile will have your contact information and most
of this will be filled out.
Go ahead and complete it so it there's a way for people to get in touch with you.
If you want to edit your settings at any time just click here
and the Gear will give you a lot more information that you can control.
Now what's great about the introNetwork system
is its ability to match you up to other people
at the conference that matching is done here
in the tags so we have four roles
area what you're looking forward to and what you're looking for
so if you look at role and I am you'll see all of these words here
are I indicating all the different types of people that are going to be at
SIGGRAPH Asia
and all the areas and products
interest so select the things you want so if you're
really interested in actually I'm interested haptic
input devices I clicked the word and I drag it to the box above
and you can have words on top of one another or you can have
arranged anywhere you want but the higher the word is
up in the list the more matches should be made
on that area now once you've done all this hit the next button
and then there are some more questions than answers so talk to me about a great
conversation starter so people can
were more about you you can answer the questions why you're coming to SIGGRAPH
Asia
and then possibly 3 inventions or what you can try without
again this is all for people to get to know you a little bit better
you can then upload a picture putting your Twitter feed your blog here
company page whatever you want you can also create a short little video of
yourself
this is all written in Flash so we use a flash Communication Server to do that
that makes a great way to introduce yourself and then you can put up some
pictures if you
I've got some shots are working on that you're allowed to show
upload them here now what you've done with that you click Show my connections
this takes you to the pin view
which is now we've not watch the site yet so I'm making this video
for all the people who were going to join she gets you've got nineteen people
in here
I'm the center pin and the my closest matches mark Shabbat
okay if I click on mark's p.m. I'm going to see
all the words that he selected and the words and colour
are the things that we have in common now if I want to send a message I just
click the Send Message button
and that opens up I put in the subject I can
even create a little video to send to him as well you see my webcam
I can also see where he lives
I can sentiment email just simply click this button I could see his website
simply click that as well and I can also see
how he answered the questions once the site gets going more
you'll also be able to see activity so what people have done in terms of
I'm forum post so here are my post
you can see activity and you can see that I posted
a forum topic so now the way the system works
as well as to give you alternate ways to visualize this information
so we can go look a ListView so here we can see everybody and you can sort this
by title and by city and all that
we also have a worldview so
I'm over here and Santa Barbara Calif and the conference is going to be in
Asia
so it's gonna show all the people that I have a match with all the way from
appear in Corea all the way down to
the folks that are running the conference down in Singapore then
finally there's a
tag view what's great about this is that it allows you to get in quickly it's a
while
here's digital innovator I'm 5 the people say their digital innovators
that might be a person that you want to reach out to and talk
to so how would I find those I go to Advanced search
and I'm gonna look be my role
area I look down for digital innovator
there it is he has liked as many words as you want you can go in and
had as many fields your search as you want as well
once you're done with that click search
so now it's gonna show me those those people their digital innovators are they
are they're so 3 a.m.
there's actually also some groups here that I'm
would appeal to digital innovators so you might wanna get into the house
so there's those three people now let's let's go on look at groups so
group are places where up these are birds of a feather group so the special
interest groups
so you can easily go in and I see this group this looks interesting
click the Join button and now I am in that group
over here on the left you'll see the group now there's there's two right now
but it's easy for you to create one to set the Create button
and then fill out all the information so you may want to create a
a birds of a feather group or probably not a conference programme
group if you're involved in that you might want to do that as well
just go through the steps it's very very simple go ahead and invite people to
join your group
there's also a calendar so will
on the calendar you'll see we've got locked out the conference in the
exhibition
if you have special events you can just go ahead easily click
to create innovate it's really that simple
now you also I'm there are forms
so we've set up a series of forums
that they're not populated yet but there's announcements news jobs
special-interest discussion success stories and tips and tricks
so if you have a suggestion you can just click
out a topic on anyone have the forms go ahead
and way and this is a great place for people to communicate
I'm we also suggest if you're really interested
%um jobs for instance you might subscribe to that category
that way anytime there's a post in this board
you will get a and female about it and then you'll know that something has
happened
there's also a resources area where resources will be posted
right now we've set one up for navigating Hong Kong and conference
resources
and those if you've got great ideas you just go ahead
click on that hit the Create button and you can go in and create a resource it
might be AFP photo of a great restaurant
might be an RSS feed from a great foodie blog
in hong kong whatever it is just type it in and add it anybody can add to this in
fact
it's going to be much much better when there is all this information
the second time you come and you will see this dashboard
and the dashboard has the ability to
display lots of different information-seeking look at your matches
you can look at posts you can look at forms you can look at resources
and you can set this up so every time you come back to the site
you'll see what's going on well hope this short little tutorial gave you a
good
overview what essay connect for SIGGRAPH
Asia conference this fall is gonna
be all about and how to get the most out if its ok
if you've got any questions you can drop me a note marks a Busta Rhymes easy to
find in the network
some you know I'd love to hear from you and have a great time at the conference
bye bye