Roger Debreceny [HREF1], Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University, Nanyang Avenue, Singapore, 639678, Republic of Singapore. RogerD@netbox.com
Allan Ellis [HREF2], School of Social and Workplace Development, Southern Cross University, PO Box 157, Lismore, NSW 2480, Australia aellis@scu.edu.au
This paper sets out in detail the trade secrets for running a successful conference that meets the competing demands of presenting high quality research findings and at the same time meeting the objectives of conference participants for high quality interaction, physical surroundings and food and beverage.
The AusWeb [HREF3] series of conferences was commenced in 1995. At AusWeb95 (Debreceny and Ellis 1995a; Vitartis et al. 1995) -- and less successfully at AusWeb96 and AusWeb97 -- we actively sought to change the discourse within the conference. The papers are available on the Web a month before the conference. At AusWeb99 the papers will be couriered to participants a week or two before the conference. Participants should have worked out which papers they're going to attend and, at worst, skimmed or, at best, read the papers.
Paper presenters are also asked you to provide an online presentation .. which might be (for example) a PowerPoint presentation using RealAudio's Real Presenter. It might be HTML .. it might be whatever your imagination runs to! The presentation are on the presenter's own server, as distinct from the papers which are on the AusWeb server.
The AusWeb team wants to provide plenty of opportunity for discussion, debate and Q&A. We do not want to repeat the standard format of the research conference, where the chair of the session says "ah, we have time for just one question!" in the last few minutes of the session. So, and this is a big so, we will be asking you to speak for a very few minutes only. We would like you to provide the context and the overview, not to present the paper. Your views should be able to be discerned from the paper and the online presentation. The moderator will provide an analysis and a commentary and then the session will be open for all the participants. This format worked well in AusWeb95 .. partially, because of the more intimate scale of the conference. There was not a session that did not have active discussion and debate. We want to return not only to the physical setting of AusWeb95 at the Ballina Beach Resort, but also the pattern of discourse of AusWeb95.
Lower level headings are fine. This heading is a H3 heading. Please do not number headings
Papers are designed to be published on both the Web and in print. Print references should use the American Psychological Association style [HREF4], or something close to that.
In this paper we have set out the details of running a successful interactive conference. Whoops, we forgot to talk about the food!
Debreceny, R., & Ellis, A. (1995a). The Challenge of Integrating World Wide Web Technologies into the Delivery of Education, Governmental and Business Services. In R. Debreceny & A. Ellis (Eds.), Innovation and Diversity - The World Wide Web in Australia. AusWeb95 - Proceedings of the First Australian WorldWideWeb Conference [HREF5] (pp. 1-7). Lismore, NSW: Norsearch.
Debreceny, R., & Ellis, A. (Eds.). (1995b). Innovation and Diversity - The World Wide Web in Australia. AusWeb95 - Proceedings of the First Australian WorldWideWeb Conference. Lismore, NSW: Norsearch.
Vitartas, P., Debreceny, R., Ellis, A., & Mulholland, J. (1995). Conference Tourism: a motivational based typology. In E. Sogar (Ed.), International Conference of Marketing Educators and Researchers (pp. 345-360). Gold Coast: Griffith University [HREF6].
Roger Debreceny and Allan Ellis, © 1999. The author assigns to Southern Cross University and other educational and non-profit institutions a non-exclusive licence to use this document for personal use and in courses of instruction provided that the article is used in full and this copyright statement is reproduced. The author also grants a non-exclusive licence to Southern Cross University to publish this document in full on the World Wide Web and on CD-ROM and in printed form with the conference papers and for the document to be published on mirrors on the World Wide Web.
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