If you’ve been presenting for a while you know that Twitter has changed the audience. Presenting pre-Twitter – you saw a sea of faces looking at you Presenting during the age of Twiter – you see a sea of heads looking at laptops or smart phones It can be disconcerting if you’re not used to it. Pistachio has a great article on How to Present While People are Twittering covering topics such as Benefits of the back channel to the audience- As a presenter, the idea of presenting while people are talking about you is disconcerting. But to balance that, there are huge benefits to the individual members of the audience and to the overall output of a conference or meeting What about the speaker? Yes, presenting with the back-channel is challenging. Prepare yourself for what it will be like. We’re used to having eye contact with our audience and using that eye contact and audience reaction to measure how well we’re engaging the audience. Now when you say something brilliant, instead of nods of appreciation, there will be a flurry of tapping. Managing the back channel – We used to suffer in silence through bad presentations. Today, the audience
Do you Twitter at Work?
Last week Kate asked Do you hide Twitter from your boss? Or is it ok for you to be Twittering while working? Do you (honestly) think it hurts your performance? Not many people answered her on Twitter or FriendFeed, maybe it’s because it was an odd week, between Christmas and New Years or maybe because they didn’t want to answer, I don’t know. So I’m asking again - Do you Tweet at work? Do you hide it from your boss? Do you think it’s ok to Twitter from work? Do you think it hurts your performance? I’ll even answer them myself first. Yep! Nope, in fact I sometimes point him to particular Tweets or conversations on Friendfeed. Yes, I do. Not all the time not every day, but yes I do. For me its no different that water cooler talk with coworkers who I see face to face. I get valuable information and feed back from both sets of people but in the middle we talk about trivial stuff, tv shows, lunch, etc. No I don’t, like all things I do it in moderation, some days more some days less. With my job, like so many, focusing on technology etc,
Twitter: making the cut
As we’ve seen from previous posts keeping up and feeling overwhelmed is something I struggle with regularly. There are so many great people out there in libraryland, it makes sense that I would want to keep up with all of them. As part of my “I’m not a Superhero” therapy I’m admitting I can’t do everything I’ve been attempting and over the next month or so I’ll be weeding. I started with Twitter. First I needed to figure out what I need/want to get from Twitter, so I went to my del.icio.us account. I’m an avid user of delicious and while I don’t like the option to automatically post my links to my blog I’ve decided I should share them more often. Here are the ones I reread Chris Brogan’s 50 Ideas for Using Twitter for Business and Do What Works for You David Leek King’s Twtter Explained for Librarians, or 10 ways to use Twitter Sarah Houghton-Jan’s Being Wired or Being Tired: 10 Ways to Cope with Information Overload I also considered some of the popular and/or successful librarians who don’t use Twitter. I wont point fingers, but they are out there. I decided what I want from
MRRL’s Twitter account gets a shout out
Please excuse me a moment of self indulgence, MRRL’s twitter account got a shout out in a recent Library School Journal article about libraries using Twitter. Since the flickr account and the blog are a labor of love on my part I’m so happy when I see that they are getting some love from someone else. We’ve got the twitter account set up to show the RSS from the blog and flickr, pretty freaking sweet! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Share on FriendFeed Buzz it up Share on netvibes share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tumblr it Buzz it up Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Tell a friend
Twitter in Plain English
The folks at Common Crafts do it again! Twitter is one of those Web2.0 tools that can be hard to explain to people how aren’t familiar with it, and even harder to explain why they’d want to use it. Check out this great video for a fun explanation. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Share on FriendFeed Buzz it up Share on netvibes share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tumblr it Buzz it up Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Tell a friend
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