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

Ian O'Byrne wiobyrne at gmail.com
Thu Nov 28 08:01:12 PST 2013


Thanks for the recommendations. I'm prepping for the Literacy Researchers
Association conference next week. We've been trying to push the use of
Twitter, Google+, and a robust, online presence. The challenge is primarily
getting everyone up to speed on the use of a tool (e.g. Twitter) and
how/why to use it. I think it's also important to help them scale up by
using Tweetdeck, or Hootsuite to follow conversations. I wish one of these
app developers that builds apps for AERA, LRA, etc. would fold in a
Twitter/social media stream.

I've used VisibleTweets before at conferences. It tends to work well as a
backdrop before/after keynotes, and sessions. We also had it up in informal
meeting spaces and lunch to allow people to reflect on the backchannel.

Recently we've been moving to Today'sMeet <https://todaysmeet.com/> as a
quick and dirty way to have people share and follow from their phones.

-Ian

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On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Unger, Johann <j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk>wrote:

> 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
> LA1 4YL
>
> e-mail: j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk<mailto:j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk>
> tel: +44 1524 592591
> Follow me on Twitter @johnnyunger<http://twitter.com/#!/johnnyunger>
>
> 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
>
> --
> Jen Jack Gieseking, Ph.D.
> New Media and Data Visualization Specialist, Postdoctoral Fellow
> Digital and Computational Studies Initiative, Bowdoin College
> jgieseking at gmail.com<mailto:jgieseking at gmail.com>
> www.jgieseking.org
> www.spatiallyinclined.org
> @jgieseking <https://twitter.com/jgieseking>
>
>
> 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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