Sweden Social Web Camp
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Sweden Social Web Camp (SSWC) is a Swedish user-generated conference (or unconference) held on the island of , Karlshamn Municipality. The event focuses on internet and web technology and use in the context of social media. The format is open, participatory workshop-events, the content which is provided by the participants. As anyone can decide to run a workshop during the event other, non-social web, subjects have of course turned up on the unconference grid.[1]
History[]
In 2009 and told some friends via their blog that they were considering meeting up a few people on an island and talk about the social web. Within hours they had nearly a hundred replies from people who wanted to come and they decided that they should try to do something for a wider audience. Eventually 286 [2] people attended a two-day Sweden Social Web Camp in 2009 and workshops on about 60 different topics [3]
In 2010 409 people attended Sweden Social Web Camp.[4] A book, SSWC-boken, was crowd sourced by Mattias Boström and 180+ essays making up 591 pages was printed and sold at the event. Many of the essays were also workshop topics at the event itself.[5]
In 2011 about 400 people attended [6] an expanded format where an extra day was added and the agenda for the first day was crowd-sourced beforehand and voted on. By some, this year was considered the best year so far.[7]
Structure[]
The first two years (2009, 2010) was held as a traditional unconference where the content was decided by the participants on the spot, booking locations on the island using the . The third year an extra day was added and the suggested topics were crowd-sourced beforehand and an online voting system was used to vote for the most popular topics. The 35 topics with the highest votes were allocated a slot on the first day.
Organised travel, called the Twittering buses,[8] contributes to the event and many consider travelling with the buses an essential part of the experience.
See also[]
References[]
- ^ #SSWC Hur en wall blir till (How the grid is created), time laps video of unconference grid creation
- ^ Revolution på Tjärö (Revolution on Tjärö), Commersen, 25 August 2009, retrieved 16 August 2009
- ^ About Sweden Social Web Camp, retrieved 16 August 2011
- ^ Camp för internetentusiaster (Camp for internet enthusiasts), DN.se, 13 August 2010, retrieved 16 August 2011
- ^ SSWC-boken (The SSWC book), 13 August 2010, retrieved on 16 August 2011
- ^ Kunskap skapas bäst genom att delta (Knowledge is best created by participating), DN.se, retrieved 16 August 2011
- ^ Vuxenhajk för webbnördar, (Field trip for grownup web nerds), Resume, retrieved 16 August 2011
- ^ Twittrande bussar på väg söderut (Twittering buses on their way south), Internetworld, retrieved 16 August 2011
External links[]
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- Sweden Social Web Camp web site
- Comprehensive link list for content about SSWC 2009
- Comprehensive link list for content about SSWC 2010
- Comprehensive link list for content about SSWC 2011
- Så kanske SSWC kan bli ännu bättre (This way maybe SSWC can become even better), Sydsvenskan, retrieved 16 August 2011
- Internetmänniskor invaderar Blekingeö (Internet people invade Blekinge island), DN.se, retrieved 16 August 2011
- Framtidens internet tar form (The future of the internet takes shape), Expressen/Kvällsposten, retrieved 16 August 2011
- Webbeliten samlades i Blekinges skärgård (The web elite got together in the archipelago of Blekinge), Metro Teknik, 25 August 2009, retrieved 16 August 2011.
- Web-related conferences
- Social information processing
- Unconferences