[Web4lib] Useful use of Twitter at conferences?

[Ms Norma Jean Hewlett]

Using a conference hashtag to post tweets about the presentations is
becoming a standard practice at most conferences. Unless your friend is
part of a group with specialized interests, she shouldn't need to
organize her own.

It's important to use a lot of restraint when posting messages, though.
It gets annoying very quickly when somebody sends out tweet after tweet,
trying to summarize each point a speaker makes. (Voice of experience
here, having done this.)
Jean Hewlett
University of San Francisco


----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Wiggins <richard.wiggins at gmail.com>
Date: Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:54 am
Subject: [Web4lib] Useful use of Twitter at conferences?
To: "web4lib at webjunction.org" <web4lib at webjunction.org>

> A friend is going off to a conference soon and seeks to organize a 
> groupTwitter so she can track what's going on and maximize her 
> conferenceexperience.
> 
> Can you please let me know of any conferences where such an attempt 
> wasorganized?  Did it succeed?  How did it work?
> 
> Things like this worry me. I picture people rushing from one side 
> of the
> boat to the other just because a speaker cracks a good joke, 
> causing the
> ship of conference to sink. I also picture speakers with great 
> things to say
> losing their entire audience between great thoughts.  After all, 
> someonetold me that even Cliff Lynch was boring for 30 seconds once 
> in 1995.  :-)
> 
> Anyhow, it seems to be the constant partial attention tool du jour, 
> so if
> you've seen this actually help a conference succeed, please let me 
> know.
> Thanks,
> 
> /rich
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