Comments on: “Hey – Didn’t you know it’s not rude to tweet whilst someone talks to you?!” or “How to incorporate user generated content to the conference format”

By: Deb Mills-Scofield.

Deb Mills-Scofield. — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 00:28:12 +0000

great insights…the 3 types of tweeters is an interesting and accurate way to view the “content” and i found bif-6 so much more valuable because of the running commentary, questions, additional links…and your smiling face a few folks down seriously, this adds a wonderful dimension to conferences and is a very helpful way to follow conferences i can’t attend.

thank you for this analysis and segmentation!

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By: Braden Kelley

Braden Kelley — Fri, 22 May 2009 21:35:57 +0000

Great article Boris. I definitely shifted amongst all of the roles, and one other one not listed (troublemaker).

I feel that because the BloggersHub was organized and that we were mostly together we were able to deliver a better experience to followers distributed around the globe, than a group of random conference attendees. Our hive mentality and self-organization after duplicating the same tweets for the first hour I believe definitely enhanced the experience for those not fortunate enough to be in New York for the event.

Plus I had a chance to try and make you laugh.

Braden (@innovate on Twitter)

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By: Boris Pluskowski

Boris Pluskowski — Wed, 13 May 2009 22:52:41 +0000

Andrea – likewise regarding that feedback from conference planners – including from a good source that World Business Forum might have this integrated too (you heard it here first folks :p ). Interestingly was speaking to a friend of mine here in London today who told me she had a very negative experience watching a tweet streamed conference from Spain on e-business. Could it be that the various roles described above were not adequately fulfilled? If you have only debaters, would there be no content? If you have only Minutemen would there be no “personality” to the conference? If you had only Librarians would there no context?

This certainly brings in implications that for conference organizers to have a successful “broadcast conference” you’d have to make sure you actively invite a broad spectrum of bloggers/twitterers to cover it in order to ensure a good balance of contributions…

By: Boris Pluskowski

Boris Pluskowski — Wed, 13 May 2009 22:45:32 +0000

Thanks for the comments so far everyone!

Jeff – apologies if there was confusion, knew you were remote for this one – but as I found your comments and questions quite useful, it ‘felt’ like you were an active participant in some format…maybe I should add a fourth role for “The Remote Participant”

By: Julie Lenzer Kirk

Julie Lenzer Kirk — Wed, 13 May 2009 14:58:50 +0000

Thanks for this, Boris. Great distillation!

I would also add “color commentary” as I really enjoyed doing that. Could be combined with the debater, though.

By: JeffHurt

JeffHurt — Wed, 13 May 2009 14:57:25 +0000

Wow Boris, great commentary and reflection of the event. You listed me @JeffHurt as an active tweep tweeting and I was actually a virtual participant. At that time, I was following @pinnovation and noticed his tweets with the #wif09 hashtag so I decided to check it out through TweetChat. The content pulled me right in and before I knew it, I had changed my schedule so I could participate in this event. Then my tweets with the hashtag extended the content reach to my followers, who started attending as well. Some only quietly, just observing and listening.

My learning and experience was completely dependent upon you the bloggers and Tweeps sending out tweets. As a virtual attendee, my experience would have suffered if each of the three Tweep conference roles that you described had not been present and active. It felt like I was participating in a live news team roundtable discussion as the event occurred with the ability to ask questions, voice my opinions and listen. The speakers’ content, bloggers posts and tweets challenged my mind and thinking.

I’ve attended several conferences as a virtual attendee and think we’ll continue to see these concepts integrated into more events and conferences in the future. It’s a great way to extend the learning and reach of the conference before, during and after event.

By: Andrea Meyer

Andrea Meyer — Wed, 13 May 2009 00:40:05 +0000

Great delineation of Twitterer roles, Boris! I hadn’t thought about that, but those roles are spot-on. I also hadn’t realized that the tweets were streamed outside the conference – but now that you mention it, it explains the Twitter logo I saw on the screen when entering the Nokia Theatre.

Thank you for sharing your views and value-added insights. I think you’re right about conference live-tweeting becoming a trend: After the conference, I heard from one meeting planner who plans to use this idea for future conferences.