The document provides tips and best practices for livetweeting at tech conferences. It discusses preparing by finding the conference hashtag and speaker handles. It recommends livetweeting to provide visibility for those not attending and to engage attendees, speakers, and organizers. The document also covers constraints like tweet length, including photos, handling distractions, arguing respectfully, and considering audience reactions when livetweeting. It suggests livetweeting multiple talks, analyzing metrics, and creating pages about your own talks afterward.

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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