***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** The conference organizers, staff members, and student volunteers indeed put enormous effort and worked for super long hours to make sure the conference go smoothly. Their great work is absolutely well received and highly appreciated. ________________________________________ From: Social Networks Discussion Forum [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Alvin Chin [[log in to unmask]] Sent: August 22, 2013 2:37 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: In praise of Xi'an INSNA conference ***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** Great to hear the conference went well! Looks like China is becoming a country in hosting top conferences. Great research +great food +great culture + great people + great organization = successful conference Alvin On Aug 22, 2013 6:23 AM, "Barry Wellman" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: ***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** This was a great social networks conference, one of the best that I attended. The papers were solid -- better than most Sunbelts that I have seen. The colleagues from East Asia and elsewhere were delightful, and the hospitality was out of this world. Most papers were in English, although there was a separate track for Chinese-language papers. Here's the program: http://insna2013.xjtu.edu.cn/Conference_Program.aspx Huge praise to Prof Yanjie Bian, conference manager Vivian Wang, and their associates for great organizing and welcoming. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ NetLab Director FRSC INSNA Founder Faculty of Information (iSchool) 611 Bissell Building 140 St. George St. University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 3G6 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman Canadian and American citizen NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $20 Kindle $16 Old/NewCyberTimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 ________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social network researchers (http://www.insna.org). To unsubscribe, send an email message to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> containing the line UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message. _____________________________________________________________________ SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social network researchers (http://www.insna.org). To unsubscribe, send an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message. -- Jing Shen PhD Student, ABD Research Assistant Sociology Department University of Toronto 725 Spadina Ave. Toronto, ON M5S 2J4 Canada _____________________________________________________________________ SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social network researchers (http://www.insna.org). To unsubscribe, send an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message.