As a presenter it’s rare these days to have someone establish eye contact with you; I guess you can take it as a compliment that what you’re saying is tweet / blog worthy – unless of course they’re not saying complimentary things.

It’s ironic in these days of social networking that people seem to have the lost some of the nuances of flesh & blood interactions.

Twitter – just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.

When looking at my list of followers – more and more of the last published tweets are in 2009..

When people are Tweeting about events or restaurant reviews on my247.com.au – more often or not its their first and last ever post.

Our recent user-survey indicated 90% of our users (550,000 monthly visitors) are not bothered by twitter. I know our demographic is the longer tail and not online all day / every day..but the results still surprised me.

So Twitter has a place, but its not the be all and end all for all business, services and conferences. Maybe they need to tweek it some more.

Anyway, I was beginning to think it was just me.

CK

On a related issue last night went to a SMC Melbourne (@SMCMelb) event and of course it was about SM so you expect people to be tweeting…somewhat. But not to the extent I saw. I “interrupted” at least three people who were tweeting just to say “hi” and to network. Because lets face it that was one of the two reasons I went there in the first place. The people were very nice about my interrupting them but I counted at one stage several people just leaning against a wall and punching their iPhones. Yes, they were probably interacting online but not interacting face-to-face and isnt that one of the reasons they came to the event in the first place also?

In the “olden days” (about 5 years ago!) when you went to a conference or event you didnt have your iPhone to lean on and had to interact and talk to people face to face. It was either that or stand by yourself like a lemon.

And on your point I think @qanda might be onto the right idea. The live event is left live. No twitter stream showing during broadcast, but if you choose to go on Twitter and following the stream you can. It also allows the host to concentrate on the hear and now which is courteous to their guests and also leads to more quality debate.

SM etiquette is developing rapidly. We are all learning the rules. In time I think it will more seamlessly integrate with live events. At the moment that is not happening. So keep watching!

Ann

live tweeting from conferences is a particular pet hate, and often leads me to unfollow people if I know my feed will be full of hashtagged nonsense for the day

i was thinking as i was reading that some sports liveblogs are actually great – the guardian’s over by over for instance – and then you mentioned just that! what are some other instances where live blog/tweet has been used well

I attended Bab’s Keynote yesterday and loved the fact you summarised it in a blog. It meant I didn’t have to do this myself (for the rest of my team) back at the office. What was missing however, was some of the context. Unless you were there, it was hard to get the full meaning of each of his 10 points.

Live blogging is great for live sport, but is the digital world moving that fast that we can’t wait a couple of hours for a more thorough report later? I don’t think so.

Thanks Tim! An insightful blog.

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