[Air-L] Use of Social Media Tools at an Academic Conference

[jose marichal]

Thanks everyone for your wonderful suggestions... I'll keep you posted on
how they work at our upcoming conference... if you want a compendium of the
responses, e-mail me off list

marichal at callutheran.edu


On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Magdalena O!
<m_olszan at live.concordia.ca>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I second guidebook.com<http://guidebook.com>. I've seen it used at the
> Differential Mobilities Conference in Montreal in May, and with HASTAC last
> spring. It allows you to upload images, tweets, make your own conference
> plan, notes, etc.
>
> Although this may be obvious, but the key to having a lively social media
> component to any conference is having dedicated social media people who can
> monitor hashtags, upload images, participate in backchannel conversations
> and also know how to effectively synthesize presenter ideas in 140
> characters. I have done social media / photography coordination for
> conferences before. It takes a lot of planning and work, and you can't
> simply rely on technology to have a live stream and what have you of tweets
> from attendees if you want to have an impact. :)
>
> Cheers
>
> =^.^=
>
> Magdalena Olszanowski, PhD Student
> Senior Research Assistant, Mobile Media Lab<http://mobilities.ca>
> HASTAC Scholar
> Communication Studies
> Concordia University
> Montreal, QC
>
> @raisecain<http://twitter.com/raisecain>
>
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> On 2013-11-28, at 11:01 AM, air-l-request at listserv.aoir.org<mailto:
> air-l-request at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
>
> Re: [Air-L] Use of Social Media Tools at an Academic
> Conference
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