How is Twitter used in conferences?
After the Prolearn Summer School 2008 at Macedonia I wrote a paper on how we experienced the use of Twitter during the event together with some colleagues (Cristina Costa, Martin Silliaots and Günter Beham). We got good feedback at the ECTEL 2008 conference and asked the question “How and why does people at conferences use Twitter?”. We asked Martin Ebner to join us in trying to answer this question and developed a generic survey in order to get responses from conference attendees.
Meanwhile we put up surveys for several conferences and get the first answers:
- Web 2.0 Expo Europe 2008 in Berlin
- Handheld Learning 2008 in London
- ECTEL 2008 in Maastricht
- Online Educa 2008 in Berlin
- E-LEARN 2008 in Las Vegas
- LeWeb ’08 in Paris
If you attended any of these conferences please answer the corresponding survey(s) and spread the word about it. We are interested in more conferences where Twitter played an important role. Please feel free to tell us about your experiences with Twitter during conferences and also give us hints to conferences, that used Twitter.
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Where do I find your paper? The interesting question for me is: What benefit have the conferences have from Twitter? One thing I can imagine of is to collect and categorize the feedback through twitter messages with tagging.
You’ll find our paper with the title “Microblogging In Technology Enhanced Learning: A Use-Case Inspection of PPE Summer School 2008″ at http://togather.eu/handle/123456789/365 We used Twitter in several conferences now as back channel for many kind of things (feedback to the presenter, side discussions about the presented topic, interesting links etc.). Beside of this you get to know thoughts and feelings from other attendees what makes us think and reflect about topics in more depth.