Comments on: Is Twitter a good thing while you’re presenting?

By: How Backchat Makes Your Presentation A Killer « Caleb Booker

How Backchat Makes Your Presentation A Killer « Caleb Booker — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:33:54 +0000

[...] the full blog post for details, as well as a follow-up including feedback from the comments. She also expands into some great ideas on how to manage the backchat – manage it [...]

By: Laura Bergells

Laura Bergells — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:29:34 +0000

Fun stuff.

If you’re presenting to a Twittering audience, why not think in terms of developing some short, provocative content in the form of one-liners and sound bites?

Drop your one liner.

Then pause.

In the old days, a comic would pause to wait for the laugh.

But now, you’ll wait for the Twitter storm to finish.

Picture this Tweet, for example:

“Laura just said, “If you’re not on Twitter, you’re not in PR.” #ConferenceHashtagHere

After your dramatic pause to wait for the BlackBerry clicking to subside, you continue with your presentation, until you drop the next one liner.

(Twitter would have been a perfect medium for the master of the one liner, Mr. Henny Youngman.)

By: Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:20:20 +0000

The Art of the Backchannel at Conferences: Tips, Reflections, and Resources…

Photo by MarcopolosI’m a few weeks away from SXSW where I’ll be leading a session called “Nonprofit Social Media ROI Poetry Slam” which will incorporate a lot of audience interaction. I’ve been thinking about how to best incorporate the back……

By: Tony Ramos

Tony Ramos — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:29:10 +0000

As a Microsoft MVP for PowerPoint, I will be in Redmond next week to visit with the PPT product group and meet with other MVPs. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/MVPsummit

I plan on discussing social media and PPT. In particular, the idea of incorporating a “crawl” in PPT show mode with live, filtered (?), hashtagged (?) tweets is the main one I will bring to the table. For all I know, MSFT might be working on this already.

Plug-in coders: smell an opportunity? Just sayin’…

Thanks to Olivia for keeping this conversation going.

By: joy simpson

joy simpson — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:10:42 +0000

It seems to me that some people as presenters want to control what goes on in front of them. As a presenter I know that I can’t.
No one likes criticism whether it arrives via twitter or in a written evaluation at the end. May be not all presenters have written evalautions so don’t get any criticism because generally people won’t say it to your face.
If you are going to have twitter on when presenting I think you have to build in time to discuss what is being said positive or negative.
These people would have thought the same whether tweet was available or not. Is it the fact that we don’t like it being so public? Live by the sword, die by the sword. We can’t only use the bits we like.
If we get a written evaluation that is negative we follow it up with a phone call or a conversation. It takes guts to do that. Enter into a discussion. Isn’t that what twitter is all about.