[Web4lib] The value of Twitter as back channel

Jane Jorgenson jajorgen at scls.lib.wi.us
Thu Aug 5 11:58:53 EDT 2010


I'd been skeptical about the usefulness of Twitter until I started
using it at conferences.  Following what others were doing and posting
my own brief thoughts with a conference hashtag was incredibly useful
and has made me a Twitter convert.

Thanks for posting this.

Jane Jorgenson
MPL
Madison, WI

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Wilfred Drew <DrewW at tc3.edu> wrote:
> The past two days I was at the IDS Project (http://idsproject.org/) Conference (http://idsproject.org/conferences/2010/InformationPage.aspx) at SUNY Oswego.  I was the official twitter coordinator for the conference.  Over 200 people attended.  The conference hastag is #IDSCONF10.  There are over 530 tweets that used that hashtag.  The content quality of the tweets i high in my subjective opinion.  You can see an archive of the tweets at http://twapperkeeper.com/hashtag/idsconf10 .  I am creating a more organized archive grouping them by the conference session tweeted.  I will post that URL when I finish.
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