Regardless of your track, The IS/IT community is so small. While attending the AMCIS conference in Toronto last August, I met and shared dinner/lunch tables with some of the famous people whose research papers I am reading this semester. Being a member of the Association for Information Systems http://home.aisnet.org and also member of The PhD Project Information System Doctoral Students Association I had the pleasure of networking with several members whose words of wisdom are still echoing in my ears.
I will start my academic communities by the Americas' conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) for the simple reason that I attended the 2008 conference before the start of my PhD. The conference was held in beautiful Toronto, Canada.
The annual Americas' Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) is a conference of the Association for Information Systems (AIS), and is managed by an ever changing group of volunteers. It is associated with the Society for Information Management (SIM) and the International Academy for Information Managment (IAIM).
AMCIS 2009 will be held in San Francisco, CA.
International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) is also a conference of AIS with much lower acceptance rate. ICIS was founded in 1980 at UCLA and the first conference was held at the University of Pennsylvania as the " Conference on Information Systems". Next ICIS conference in Held in Paris, France this coming December and my advisor Dr. Chu will be attending.
From Conferences to Journals:
During pre- AMCIS conference in August 08, I had the great pleasure to meet in person the MIS Quarterly Editor-In-Chief Dr Detmar W. Straub and ISR Editor-In-Chief Dr. Vallabh Sambamurthy. They may "butcher" our submission but they are actually pretty nice.
The Management Information Systems Quarterly (MIS Quarterly) is a journal aiming the enhancement and communication of knowledge concerning the development of IT-based services, the management of IT resources, and the use, impact, and economics of IT with managerial, organizational, and societal implications. Professional issues affecting the IS field as a whole are also in the purview of the journal.
ISR http://www.informs.org/site/ISR/
Information system research (ISR) publishes research topics from a wide range of theories including, but not limited to, cognitive psychology, economics, computer science, operations research, design science, organization theory, organization behavior, sociology, and strategic management.
I do not see these conferences/journal as different professional associations but as one IS/IT large community with different levels. As I may be able to publish in AMCIS and hopefully with ICIS during my PhD journey, attaining the level of MIS Q and ISR will realistically require a much longer breath.
Data from this blog is extracted from conferences/journals websites
All high quality conferences and journals!
It's so exciting to meet people in person whose papers you've read!
Wow, you had a great experience with great people already. I hope to be fluent in speaking English just like you soon.