Share your resources, experiences, and ideas for supporting backchannel at conferences.
Extra content
Got extra information or live blog notes about this cloud?
Add them here!
Discussion
Hi Sylvia thanks for adding this. I think backchannels have become really important in recent years at conferences, as more and more people have laptops and as wifi is become standard. Twitter has clearly made a huge difference, particualrly when there is an agreed hash tag for everyone to use. One of the problems with twitter however is that it doesnt keep tweets beyond a few months, so if the discussions are something you want to keep, you need to archive the tweets soemhow.
From Richard Smith via twitter: Use case for Twitter at conferences: knowing when to jump to another parallel session. The Tweets on the other side are greener!
Discussion
Hi Sylvia thanks for adding this. I think backchannels have become really important in recent years at conferences, as more and more people have laptops and as wifi is become standard. Twitter has clearly made a huge difference, particualrly when there is an agreed hash tag for everyone to use. One of the problems with twitter however is that it doesnt keep tweets beyond a few months, so if the discussions are something you want to keep, you need to archive the tweets soemhow.
Gráinne Conole
1:32pm 25 October 2009
From Richard Smith via twitter: Use case for Twitter at conferences: knowing when to jump to another parallel session. The Tweets on the other side are greener!
Sylvia Currie
2:28pm 30 October 2009
Wonder how people will start to use the new list function on Twitter at conferences?
Gráinne Conole
2:33pm 30 October 2009
Contribute to the discussion
Please log in to post a comment. Register here if you haven't signed up yet.
Links
added by Sylvia Currie
added by Sylvia Currie
Add a link
Academic References
Add an academic reference