When to tweet? Twitter at conferences and presentations
July 29th, 2009
| I used Twitter for the first time at the EdTech 2009 conference where some of the delegates were ‘tweeting’ each other during the presentations. At the time I could see benefits but also downsides of such tweeting. It has the advantage of allowing people who are not physically present to participate in the conference. Indeed, in the plenary session tweets from both inside and outside the room were projected for all delegates to see. But should a small group who are present tweet each other during presentations? Maybe more questions and discussions would be fairer on the speaker and allow non-tweeters to participate. |
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Some of the tweets were quite critical and I doubt if their authors would have uttered them out loud. Apart from issues of courtesy, tweets are persistent and can read by anyone. So tweeters be careful what you say!
Olivia Mitchell discuses these issues in thoughtful posts on How to tweet during a presentation, Should you display the live twitter stream on a large screen? and other Twitter related subjects in her Speaking about Presenting blog. (Thanks Fiona for tweeting me the link)
Thanks to the NCI photographer for permitting the use of this image.
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