tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166669645725536266.post2063838252314203926..comments2023-07-07T06:52:33.856-04:00Comments on floatingsheep: Tweeting the AAGsMark Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00659652124105331552noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166669645725536266.post-9140597116719301352013-05-17T14:58:35.658-04:002013-05-17T14:58:35.658-04:00I think this wasn't necessarily live tweeting,...I think this wasn't necessarily live tweeting, but just general tweets about things at the conference. My tweets, for example, were just random things I noticed or stuff like "where's the party at?"<br /><br />Personally live tweeting drives me bonkers, or at least when people just tweet random quotes from presenters. Much more interesting to me are things about cool stuff people saw, i.e. "Really cool presentation on a new tool that does XYZ" rather than some quote: "'Data is important'--Joe Blow"Andrew Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14897991196753070172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166669645725536266.post-62086091111756321382013-05-15T13:10:42.525-04:002013-05-15T13:10:42.525-04:00Hello - I came to your site by way of the Hate Map...Hello - I came to your site by way of the Hate Map project, which, as a map geek (but not a geographer), I think is really awesome. <br /><br />My question is about live tweeting conferences. Do you have any thoughts on the benefits of getting attendees to do live tweeting? For one, it seems to add publicity to an event, albeit within the social circles of those who are tweeting. What do you think it added to the AAG conference in particular? Did it make people feel more connected or in-the-know? Did people use the hashtag to see what others were talking about or to network? I'm interested in that sort of anecdotal information if you have any. <br /><br />I ask because I notice that conferences are increasingly being live tweeted, and because I recently attended a conference for which few people were doing so. My guess is that many of the attendees likely do not use Twitter (skews to a slightly older demographic) and there was also no official hashtag that was publicized. The handful of people who decided to live tweet (including myself) just made up their own tags, but used a few variations (e.g., #SfAA2013, #SfAA13, #SfAA, etc.), so there wasn't much consistency. <br /><br />I've been talking to the IT committee of our organization (The Society for Applied Anthropology) about having a more active Twitter presence and coming up with a hashtag for our next meeting, but am trying to find out what other conference-goers think about it.<br /><br />Thanks!<br />AmyAmyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00932471031963617438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166669645725536266.post-2137005371785297292013-05-06T10:18:52.074-04:002013-05-06T10:18:52.074-04:00The hipster murder hostel, with it's surprisin...The hipster murder hostel, with it's surprising popularity amongst the geoweb set, appears to have made it onto the map.jbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15077629656620515968noreply@blogger.com