How to present with Twitter and other backchannels
November 20, 2009
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.
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New survey: How people are using Twitter at conferences
May 27, 2009
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.
Is Twitter a good thing while you’re presenting?
February 26, 2009
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]

















