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Presenting with Twitter

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. The methodology of the survey seems a little light. Only [...]

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Should you display the live twitter stream on a large screen?

May 20, 2009

Twitter is now a reality at many conferences. Now the question is: should you display a live twitter stream on a large screen so that everyone (not just the tweeters) in the audience can see it? Having twitter on a large screen can enrich the conference experience. Here’s a report from the Museums and the [...]

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8 things I learnt about using twitter as a participation tool

March 1, 2009

Today, I presented a session remotely at the Presentation Camp at Stanford University, California. My session was on “How to engage your audience with Twitter” and I tried to do exactly that during my presentation. Here’s what I learnt from my experience: 1. Design your presentation for Twitter I used two strategies that took into [...]

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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 [...]