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

[Unger, Johann]

For our Twitter and Microblogging conference in April this year, we made Twitter names and room-specific hashtags very prominent. We used Lanyrd before and during the conference to keep people updated about the programme etc. - this integrates quite well with Twitter.

It's vital to keep both the conference and room/session-specific hashtags as short as possible.

We did have twitter livestreams for our plenary speakers. It generated some interesting discussion, but should definitely be agreed with the speakers in advance!

Johnny.


Dr J W Unger
Lecturer and Academic Director of Summer Programmes
Department of Linguistics and English Language
Lancaster University
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On 28 Nov 2013, at 14:41, Jen Jack Gieseking <jgieseking at gmail.com<mailto:jgieseking at gmail.com>>
 wrote:

Make sure Twitter handles are on badges under name and affiliation, and
clearly demarcate each panel with it's own hashtag to go with the main
event hashtag so that you can follow the entire day(s) or just the panel.
Huge help. Also, it's possible to run Twitter streams in the main meeting
spaces but for #TtW13 we thought it'd be too much on presenters to see that
in their rooms.

Jack

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On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 7:52 AM, ME Luka <meluka at gmail.com> wrote:

I've seen Guidebook used very effectively for conferences, including
schedules, events, photos etc.

http://guidebook.com

Mary Elizabeth Luka
@meluka01


On Nov 27, 2013, at 7:56 PM, jose marichal <marichal at callutheran.edu>
wrote:

Colleagues,

I've been asked to come up with ideas on innovative and useful ways to
incorporate social media tools into an upcoming academic conference in
the
social sciences.  Have any of you come across some particularly useful
integrations of social media/web tool at academic conferences.

Thanks,
Jose
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