[Web4lib] Useful use of Twitter at conferences?

[Roy Tennant]

"Organize a group Twitter"? I think that's the wrong way to think about it.
Just establish an official hash tag for the event, such as cil09 for
Computers in Libraries 2009, then anyone on Twitter can add it to their
conference tweets like "this talk by Rich Wiggins is hot! #cil09" and anyone
interested in conference-related tweets can see them all.
Roy


On 3/19/09 3/19/09 € 10:51 AM, "Richard Wiggins" <richard.wiggins at gmail.com>
wrote:

> A friend is going off to a conference soon and seeks to organize a group
> Twitter so she can track what's going on and maximize her conference
> experience.
> 
> Can you please let me know of any conferences where such an attempt was
> organized?  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, someone
> told 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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