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Catching the Twitter Craze
By Joyce McKee | September 15, 2008
In my last blog post I stated that I was just starting to use Twitter, a useful text messaging tool. I must admit that it amazes me at how many people are following me - WOW!! If you are not a Twitter, yet….you receive email alerts informing you who has signed up to follow you regarding a particular topic. The topic can be any subject or person, just anything. Some people who follow me I know, and others I haven’t a clue about.
One business friend, Dana Doody from The Expo Group, sent an email saying “Hi Joyce — You better jump in there and update.” The pressure is on. So as I continue my learning curve on this topic I am looking for advice on how to effectively use Twitter.
Now I have been contacted by the EventVue folks (www.eventvue.com) and they have a service that aggregates the Tweets and blogs from conference attendees. Last week EventVue was a part of DEMOFall08, a technology conference in San Diego. This morning I talked with Rob Johnson of EventVue and he was telling me that the feedback he was getting from the conference attendees was great. Now there were a few who thought the “conversation” was too much. Rob used the term”extra noise” to describe the volume of Tweets happening at the conference. I guess the amount a Tweets a conference attendee must filter through could be tremendous, compared to a normal day.
This technology tool, like many before it, has absolute advocates who understand it and for whom it has become indispensable. Then there are “newbie’s” who are trying to catch up and all the “noise” is something we embrace or we get off of the train.
Please feel free to enlighten me on how you are using Twitter in your business routine - what has been effective for you?
Now to be totally fair Plaxo and LinkedIn, other social media groups, have a feature very similar to Twitter which you can use to keep your network informed on what you are doing.
Topics: Trade Show Talk |
September 15th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Joyce - thanks for mentioning a little about what we’re working on.
If any of your readers want to check out the twitter stream that we provided for DEMO, they can check it out at http://twitter.com/demofall08.
As I said when we talked, the twitter account can be noisy to some twitter users, especially those who primarily interact with twitter by sms text messages. However, for many of the DEMOfall attendees (and others watching the conference from afar) it was a great way to keep up in real time with the conference through the unfiltered voices of those present.
September 16th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Hi Joyce, you may also want to take a look at Pathable, an on-line community and social networking tool for conferences and events. Similar to Eventvue, we aggregate Twitter and blog feeds from all of our attendees, and we also support conversations within attendees on the site itself.
There’s a short video tour at http://pathable.com/info/tour