During the Summit, Digital Pioneers will present their projects and ideas every hour in the Hall of Trouw Amsterdam. On 29 October 15.15 hrs co-founder of *openmargin Joep Kuijper will tell us all about how they started the project and what it is all about. We interviewed him shortly about himself and the project…

- Please tell us a little about yourself…
“I am co-founder of *openmargin. Creative facilitator at new shoes today. And master student on the filmacademy”.

- How and why did you start *openmargin?
“We started off with the question: How can we bring people together in an unexpected way? The next question: What if you could step inside the books you love? The answer was *openmargin, a public space in the margin of digital books, where readers leave traces for other readers to find”.

- What can we do with *openmargin?
“You’re able to read your books on our iPad application. All the highlights and notes you make will be send to openmargin.com where you’ll discover other readers. With them you can start a dialogue based on the fragments of the book”.

- How does *openmargin stimulates social innovation?
“We’re bringing social media within a very specific context: the book. The book has the power to bring people from different backgrounds together”.

- What are you going to bring and get at the State of Social Media Summit?
“We like to talk about designing virtual spaces to direct user behavior. Some communities are fruitful others not, and we’re exploring why. And besides that, we’re looking for developers specialized in iPad apps or open standards”.

You can meet Joep at the Summit and have a chat. *openmargin co-founder Ruth Koppenol will be hosting the round table about arts & culture.

- Register for the Summit
- More info about the presentations
- More info about the round tables

Photo by Kennisland.

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