Corante Launchs First of a New Series of Thought Leadership Events -- Symposium on Social Architecture.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Partners with Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School to Examine the Future of Social Software and Media

E[acute accent]Corante, a premier social media services and publishing organization, and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at the Harvard Law School, today announced they have partnered to produce the first of a series of Corante events. This inaugural event, the Symposium on Social Architecture (SSA), will host an exclusive gathering of the industry's heavyweights in the field of Social Web technology. The day-long program will feature highly interactive discussions that focus on the emerging social architecture platform -- the convergence of social media and social computing -- that is a critical element of the next generation Web. E[acute accent]The SSA will kick off on the evening of November the 14th, 2005 with a private tour of the Degas Exhibit at Harvard's Arthur M. Sackler Museum, followed by a reception at the Harvard Faculty Club. The main Symposium program will be held November 15, 2005 at the Harvard Law School.

E[acute accent]What: Corante Industry Event; "Symposium on Social Architecture"

E[acute accent]Topics: The SSA agenda is designed to examine the overarching themes and underlying technologies driving the "social revolution" -- the rapid adoption of people-centered, user-driven, individual-connecting applications, communities and services. Topics include: E[acute accent]-- Report from the Front - what is social software and how is it different from what preceded it? -- Is Business Ready for Social Software? Is Social Software a Mirror or a Lens? -- How will the Social Web Change Media? -- Case Study in Web-based Civics: Hurricane Katrina and Recovery 2.0 -- and more.

E[acute accent]When: The Harvard Faculty Club and the Harvard Law School, November 14-15, 2005.

E[acute accent]Who: Corante and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at the Harvard Law School have assembled a "who's-who" in technology, business and social media. Symposium advisors, presenters and session leads include: E[acute accent]Stowe Boyd of Corante; Marc Canter, co-founder of Macromedia and current CEO of Broadband Mechanics; Mary Hodder, information architect and columnist for Napsterization; Jeff Jarvis, Buzzmachine; Liz Lawley, associate professor in information technology and director of the Lab for Social Computing at Rochester Institute of Technology; JD Lasica, co-founder of ourmedia.org; Ross Mayfield, CEO, SocialText; Clay Shirky, adjunct professor at NYU's graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program; David Weinberger, Research Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society; Nancy White, founder of Full Circle Associates, and more.

E[acute accent]Those interested in attending can register online at http://www.corante.com/events/ssa ; seating is limited. E[acute accent]There are a restricted number of Symposium passes available for qualified press; if interested, please contact Francois Gossieaux or Joel Richman.

E[acute accent]About Corante

E[acute accent]The world's first blog media company, Corante is a trusted, unbiased source on technology, media, business, and science authored by highly respected thinkers, commentators, analysts, and practitioners; read by top entrepreneurs, executives, funders and followers; and is helping to lead the emergence of blogging as an influential and important form of reportage, analysis and commentary.

E[acute accent]About The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School

E[acute accent]The Berkman Center's mission is to explore and understand cyberspace, its development, dynamics, norms, standards, and need or lack thereof for laws and sanctions. We are a research center, premised on the observation that what we seek to learn is not already recorded. Our method is to build out into cyberspace, record data as we go, self-study, and publish. Our mode is entrepreneurial nonprofit.