Twittering a Conference
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Microblogging @ AERA: a Twitter experiment
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Several people attending the 2009 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association enriched their conference experience by exchanging information via Twitter during the course of the week. This project also served as an information gathering tool to help make next year's conference even better for participants.
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Microblogging @ AERA:a Twitter experiment
Why?
• Microblogging presents an efficient way to collaborate
Why?
• Microblogging enriches conference experiences for those attending
Why?
• Archived microblog streams can be mined for reference and for continuing conversations
Communicating research
Weaving social media
Blogging microblogging
Personal Twitter account
Profile page
I follow these
They follow me
My posts
Post via keyboard or mobile
Search engine
Search results
Wiki for AERA tweets
Participants’ sessions
Participants’ schedules
AERA Twitter account
Direct messages
Mentions
Tweetdeck
Getting started
Post-conference benefits
http://www.searchengineguide.com/jennifer-laycock/
Mining an archive
http://www.greatideasconference.org/twitterideas.cfm
Category: takeaways
Category: attendees
Category: tips
More Twitter resources
http://delicious.com/paulbaker55/twitter
Archive on Friendfeed
http://friendfeed.com/rooms/aera09
• Some real-time results
