The socially redeeming value of "Twitter" and teaching social media
Whew! Note to self: Don't take a "fast trip" to the West Coast!
I returned from the Internet Strategy Forum in Portland, OR on Saturday morning and promptly slept until Sunday morning. Jet lag, lack of sleep and information processing all took their toll for sure.
Biggest wins at the conference?
- Meeting, sitting with and "friending" Geoff Ramsey the CEO of e-Marketer
- Meeting and chatting with Mike Moran who writes an SEO blog I follow
- Not only watching, but participating in a full conference Twitter stream via my crackberry
- Several new case studies from speakers from Forester and Intel
- A free book: Groundswell by Charlene Li
The biggest disappointments?
- Nothing really new from a content perspective
- Lack of conference organizers focus on the use of Twitter
- Poor choices for several of speakers -- this was a high expectation crowd so the speakers had to be "spot on" to be successful
- No educators
Would I go again? Probably not unless they really push out the envelope on what's coming next.
So overall Twitter was the big winner for me. To actually take what I've read about and put it into practice and follow the Tweets to see the thoughts behind the scenes was great. It really emphasizes that post from Rohit Bhargava on Twitter and conferences. Nice to live the experience.
It certainly helps having had this experience now that I'm in the process of teaching social media tools and techniques to K12 educators from several Vermont school districts today and tomorrow. I'll be bringing Twitter into the classroom to play with it so hopefully this time it will work!
Finally in the same focus about connection and social media, my colleague Peter Straube who is program director for our Hospitality and our Event Planning programs sent me an email today with some great links to some things that are being used in the conference arena:
Yes, Peter...it does!Hi Elaine,
Thought you might find this interesting: http://www.crowdvine.com/conferences and a specific example from the MPI conference I got this from in Houston last winter: http://mpi.crowdvine.com/
Oh, and while I’m at it, you might enjoy seeing some sample work that a team of our e-Gaming students produced in real time during the conference: http://www.mpiweb.org/cms/mpiweb/pec2008/peccommon.aspx?id=13996
- P
P.S. Does this get me somewhere on your blog today?
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