How to present with Twitter and other backchannels

Presenting with Twitter can be challenging. Just about every week a new story of a speaker getting roasted on Twitter makes waves in the blogosphere.

I’ve written a free eBook “How to present with Twitter (and other backchannels)” to help you avoid that fate. There’s no sign up required. Just click and read.

I asked my trusted and expert community to review the book and say what they thought of it:

“Fantastic eBook! Outstanding information and well worth the read.” Jeff Hurt, @JeffHurt and MidCourse Corrections

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New survey: How people are using Twitter at conferences

Wow. Some academics have written a paper about tweeting at conferences (thank you @tonyramos for tweeting about it).

I’m more impressed that somebody would write such a paper, than by the paper itself.

The paper reports on a survey of tweeters at five different conferences.

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Is Twitter a good thing while you’re presenting?

I’ve recently written two guest posts on Twitter and presenting. On Laura Fitton’s Touchbase blog, I looked at the benefits for the audience and the speaker of people twittering while you speak and how to manage it.

On Chris Spagnuolo’s Edgehopper blog, I went to the next step and explored how you can use Twitter to engage your audience.

Both posts have generated a lot of buzz on Twitter and there’s a ton of comments on the TouchBase blog. There’s many useful points in the comments and I have summarized the main issues below: [Read more]