Livetweeting Tech Conferences - Scale Summit

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livetweeting
tech
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why tweet?
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visibility!

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pre-livetweeting checklist
find conference hashtag
decide which talks (if multi-track)
find speaker twitter handles
draft tweets in tweetbot

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who’s the hashtag for?
attendees people with FOMOspeakers
organizers your followers who aren’t
interested in the event
at the conference not at the conference

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#keep #hashtags #simple
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Constraints
xkcd.com/1045/

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a picture is
worth 1K words
choosing an angle
speaker plus slides
up to four pics per tweet
what is your goal?

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when I don’t tweet
(E_TOO_MANY_DISTRACTIONS)

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kindness > negativity
(backchannels > subtweets)

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a pragmatic guide to arguing on the internets
or, muting well actually

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incidents & accidents

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audience reaction considerations
caution: too dark, empty chairs, demographics
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multi-track livetweeting:
being in two places at once!?!
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other livetweeting styles: threading!

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analytics.twitter.com

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trip reports
highlight activities of your team (like the booth)
tweets from talks of customers, partners, coworkers

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pages for your own talks
before: title, description, date, event, location
shortly after: slides, embedded tweets
eventually: video
bridgetkromhout.com/speaking

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conference
twitter isn’t
the only
twitter

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tl;dr: increase the happiness in the world
bridgetkromhout.com/blog/livetweeting-tech-conferences