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23 Things Summit Wrap Up #23smt

March 4, 2009
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23 Things Summit Wrap Up #23smt

Yesterday’s  23 Thing Summit was great and intense (audio, slides, chat and Twitter!)  There were almost 300 attendees (I think). WebJunction and MaintainIT staff did a great job wrangling the presenters and the attendees.  Thank you Brenda, Michael, Jennifer and everyone else! If you couldn’t make it, you can find the slides, audio and chat transcripts here and David took some notes. There was even a Twitter hash tag  #23smt, which popped up on Twitter trends about 40 minutes in. 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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Presenting during the Age of Twitter

February 24, 2009
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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

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You’ve got 30 minutes, how do you use them?

February 10, 2009
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I’ve seen some interesting conversations pop up online lately about FriendFeed vs Twitter, if spending time on Friendfeed killed your blog, (or not) that feedreaders are dead. Here is the thing, most of us don’t have that much time to spend online, networking, learning, creating content, whatever.  I remember Helene Blowers talking about taking 15 minutes each day to read blogs, to stay informed.  I gave myself 30.  There are only so many hours in the day, and so many of them are taken up with other things, so really it doesn’t leave me much time to spend online (we can’t all be Robert Scoble).  So sacrifices are made.  I know where I spend my 30 each morning.   But I want to know where do you spend yours?  You’ve got 30 minutes today, only 30 minutes where will you spend it? 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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Do you Twitter at Work?

January 8, 2009
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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,

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Twitter & how the “twittest” use it for keeping up

October 22, 2008
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Michael Sauers and Christa Burns cant explain you have to to do it, and you have to do it with friends to get the experience post – tweet tweeting methods – web, desktop client, bookmarklets, via email, via sms, blog to twitter (twitterfeed) url past 140 character limit will usually convert to tiny url twitthis twitterfeed – run rss to twitter account twirl @username if replaying d username message – private message nudge username l: location informatin follow username leave username block username invite phonenumber #hashtag direct messages go to only you, other msgs are public, can have a public or private account, private only ppl you approve can see it can read your friends via your twitter homepage, also rss uses ultra simple blogging conferences references questions new emergency services weather presidential campaigning website updates conversations marsphoenix lander is tweeting, a person is tweeting in first person for the lander LA fire department has a feed twitter search to track keywords twitterference – so many sms to your phone you cant make a phone call too distracting if you don’t participate you wont get anything out of it 7 tips to being a good twittter - http://www.meryl.net/2008/04/7-tips-to-a-good-twitter-experience/ follow others

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