Comments on: What I learned about Twitter this week

By: Timo Elliott

Timo Elliott — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:41:07 +0000

Carol,

Just fyi, I put together some tools to help presenters include Twitter into the “presentation experience” — they let you show live tweets in powerpoint, “AutoTweet” out the main points you’re making as you go through the presentation, and use Twitter to ask polling questions:

http://www.sapweb20.com/blog/powerpoint-twitter-tools/

Regards,
Timo Elliott

By: Carol Rozwell

Carol Rozwell — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:02:49 +0000

Mary, I can endorse your enjoyment of tweeting during events. I find I listen more intently and have a record of what points I thought were significant.

By: Carol Rozwell

Carol Rozwell — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:53:58 +0000

Thank you John and Richard for your comments. What is becoming evident is that we need a new role at events. As a presenter, I need to focus on delivering a message and I need a buddy who can help identify issues that show up in microblogs. It’s also important to have someone monitor the chatter for the entire event and respond to questions quickly.

By: John Jainschigg

John Jainschigg — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:08:05 +0000

@Carol: This dovetails exactly with what we see in immersive environments (e.g., Second Life), where open text-chat is used freely during voice-mediated events. Most comments are to-the-point — the overwhelming majority are civil – and audiences self-police very effectively. Even better results (more coherent dialogue, higher levels of civility) are obtained when the presenter(s) is/are aware of, and responsive to the chatstream. This works on Twitter, too — presenters at SXSW who begin by identifying themselves as Twitter users and proffering hashtags to identify the event/session seldom report problems.

@Richard: Aggregating too much chat or too many Tweets from too many places is problematic, both in terms of creating a readable ‘conversation’ and in terms of moderation. As an alternative for use around real-world and virtual events, we’ve been noodling various formulations of a multimode chat system that exploits Twitter on the inbound and outbound sides as an API, but doesn’t put the show organizer in the (sometimes uncomfortable) position of throwing a free-range Twitter stream up on the wall during an event.

By: Richard Petersen

Richard Petersen — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:14:10 +0000

In my experience, there seem to be two types of tweets from a conference or industry event. One is an outward-bound “micro-live-blogging” activity by people, for their followers who aren’t attending the event. (“So-and-so just said “). The second type of tweet is directed to others in the event, to spark a parallel discussion, much like an IRC channel. (“I’d like to know where those data came from.” etc.) One of the challenges of using Twitter at an event is that the two modes are intermingled, so outsiders are confused by the second type of tweet (“what data?”), and insiders have to extract the conversation from the deluge of redundant reportage.

By: VMaryAbraham

VMaryAbraham — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:51:06 +0000

Carol -

You’re right, microblogging events has its own rules and the collective enforces them. The net result is a positive, richer experience for those who attend and those who follow via Twitter. I’ve now microblogged two events (LegalTech NY and ILTA09) and found the experience greatly enhanced my appreciation for the events. And, it spawned some wonderful conversations with folks who followed long distance.

Any event organizer who doesn’t facilitate microblogging is missing a terrific opportunity to expand the reach of their event.

- Mary

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uberVU - social comments — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:25:00 +0000

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