A Social Knowledge Infrastructure for the Scholarly Conference
From submission to participation, for presenters and attendees, each conference is a personal journey. With this step-by-step guide, we hope to walk you through the new phases pre/during/post-conference to ensure you have a productive experience.
You started to build your CGScholar profile during the proposal submission process. Your CGScholar profile will be linked to your Presentation Page, from the Schedule, and searchable in Community. Now take the time to fill out in further detail to tell other delegates and Community members who you are.
Tips on how to complete your CGScholar Profile in full.
The CGScholar Climate Change: Impacts & Responses Community on the CGScholar platform is your social hub. Take the time to look around, meet and connect with other Peers, Research Network members, and conference delegates, and start sharing updates on who you are and the research you do.
Tips on how to best use the CGScholar Community application.
All presentations (In-Person + Online Only) will be delivered and viewed online as asynchronous digital media. This content is hosted on each presenter's Presenters Page. We require presenters to add their digital media (a video of the presentation as embed code, MP4, PowerPoint, or PDF) to their Presenter Page at least two weeks before the conference start date, as our Program Development Team will review all media.
Tips on how to upload digital media to you your personal CGScholar Presenter Page.
You've started to look through the list of accepted proposals and see some presenters have not yet added their digital media. You can request them to do so via the Presentation Page.
Tips on how to request digital media from another Presenter.
We also offer several interactive face-to-face sessions to accompany the live recordings. Registered delegates will receive a link to sign-up one week before the conference.
For a summary of what's being offered, to Special Events or the Schedule.
We know some of this is process is unfamiliar, so we have several training sessions you can sign up for. These sessions will walk you through the CGScholar Event Microsite to show how to follow content, comment, and participate in all online conference aspects. It will also teach you how to update your profile and Presenter Pages to add digital media: video, sound, other files.
View our summary guide to using CGScholar Event.
We believe that time-bounded (days of the conference) asynchronous content, mixed with live online social events, allows for a broader audience for all, not privileging one location over another, affording the global community to participate at their time and pace.
While the majority of the online conference experience is asynchronous, we also offer live online social and training sessions.
For a summary of what's being offered, go to Special Events or visit the Microsite.
Presenter Pages are where in-person and online-only presenters add their digital media. Here you'll be able to view this content, access Discussion Boards during the conference dates, and request digital media from another Presenter if it's not already there. You can access Presenter Pages from the Schedule or list of Presentations.
Tips on how to navigate Presenter Pages from the perspectives of a presenter and audience member.
Conference presentations are organized into themed pannels. Every themed panel has a Discussion Board for presenters and audience members to engage with each other's content. While online content is asynchronously delivered, the discussion boards are "time bounded" -- only open during the conference days. You can access Discussion Boards from Schedule or individual Pesmer pages when the presentation is in a themed panel.
Tips on how to navigate Discussion Boards from the perspectives of a presenter and audience member.
We highlight the work of local hosts, Advisory Board members, among others. You can access all featured content from the Prresenatonss tab in the Event Microsite. You can also follow presentations, which will appear in your personal "following" space in the Presentations tab.
Take me to the Presentations tab, where I can see featured content and content I've selected to follow.
Another social dimension available is the ability to add other delegates as Peers -- our social media naming in a scholarly context for "friends" or "followers." By adding someone as a Peer, you can communicate with them during the conference. But we hope that by adding Peers, you can start to build long-lasting relationships for research and personal growth.
Tips on how to as add and communicate with Peers.
All Presenter Pages and themed panels have an engagement counter. This way, you'll get a sense of the interest in your work beyond
Tips on how to raise your engagements.
Conferences can be ephemeral things -- we talk, are inspired, meet wonderful people, then go back to our own worlds. We seek to open channels for keeping the conversations alive, long after the conference is over.
Forget to take a card? Can't read your own handwriting? This will no longer be a problem! You can always return to the Microsite to search in the CGScholar Community lists to find that person of interest.
Take me to my CGScholar Climate Change: Impacts & Responses Community.
CGScholar Community is a social space that we encourage you to use after the conference's close. Here you can share updates, research projects, and other scholarly communication artifacts with conference delegates and the entire membership of the CGScholar Community.
Tips on how and what to post.
What to watch that presentation again? No problems! The archived Microsite will always be available to registered conference delegates. This legacy access for all participants is an important feature of our model.
After the conference is over, access content via the Research Network history page.
We are working to change how knowledge is produced, validated, and shared within member-based Research Networks. Our journals and Book Imprint offer pathways to transform your presentation into formal research objects. We also support several affordable Open Access pathways to allow maximum flexibility and affordability to support open research principles sustainably.
Find out more about Journal and Book Imprint.
We'd love to get you more involved! From general giving feedback to joining the Advisory Board to become a host -- please reach out to us.
Go to our feedback space in the Knowledge Base to get in touch.
The best way to stay connected is to see each other again -- in-person, online, or both. When you register, and you've attended previously, make sure you use the Returning Member registration pathway.