The Advance Program for The *ACM 2012 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work* has been posted online: http://cscw2012.org/program.php. The conference will be held February 11-15 in Bellevue, Washington, USA (near Seattle). CSCW is a premier venue for presenting research in the design and use of technologies that affect groups, organizations, and communities. CSCW encompasses both the technical and social challenges encountered when supporting collaboration. The development and application of new technologies continues to enable new ways of working together and coordinating activities. Although work is an area of focus, CSCW embraces research and technologies supporting a wide range of recreational and social activities using a diverse range of devices. The conference brings together top researchers and practitioners from academia and industry who are interested in both technical and social aspects of collaboration. This year's program includes * Plenary speeches by Yochai Benkler, Judith Olson and Marietta Baba * 164 Papers and Notes * 3 Panels * 2 Special Sessions * 55 Interactive Posters * 9 Demonstrations * 7 Videos * A conference banquet Sessions throughout the program will address the following topics: * Ethnography in the Very Wild * Community and Classification Online * Four Life Stages * Crowdsourcing * Recommending * Twitter and Social Transparency * Civic and Community Engagement * Distributed Teams I * Qualitative Studies of Software Development I * Social Network Analysis * Across the Globe: Cross--cultural Studies * Public Communities Online * Distributed Teams II * Qualitative Studies of Software Development II * Collaboration in the Wild * Social Media in War and Crisis * Family Life * Coordination * Supporting Software Co--development * Incentives * Social Media in Crisis and Culture * Privacy and the Home * Coordination and Artifacts * Achieving Harmony through Architecture * Tabletop Displays: From Activity to Activity Theory * On the Road: Mobile * Medical * Social Activity in Games * Media Production * Forums Online * Scaling our Everest: Wikipedia Studies I * Health * Games and Virtual Worlds * Supporting Art & Literature * Online Disclosure * Wikipedia Studies II * eScience and eMedicine * Virtual Environments * Tools for Analysis * Mediating Communication More information about attending the conference, including the *early registration rates available until December 15*, can be found here: http://cscw2012.org/attending.php We hope you will join us! -- *The 2012 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work* 11-15 February 2012 Bellevue, Washington, USA /Homepage/: cscw2012.org <http://cscw2012.org> /Twitter/: @ACM_CSCW2012 <http://twitter.com/acm_cscw2012> /Facebook/: www.facebook.com/CSCW2012 <http://www.facebook.com/CSCW2012>