[Web4lib] Useful use of Twitter at conferences?

[Daniel Smith]

Dont ignore the back channel :)

Here are a couple of useful links:

http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2007/09/04/web-strategy-what-the-web-strategist-should-know-about-twitter/

http://pistachioconsulting.com/twitter-presentations/

Daniel


On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 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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