[Web4lib] Useful use of Twitter at conferences?

[Dobbs, Aaron]

Use hashtags on twitter, there are lots of ways to remash these up later
http://hashtags.org/ for example

ALA Midwinter: #alamw09
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23alamw09

ACRL National Conference: #acrl2009
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23acrl2009

-Aaron
:-)'

PS it works a lot better than some might think :)


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-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Richard Wiggins
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 1:52 PM
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: [Web4lib] Useful use of Twitter at conferences?

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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