Here is another interesting introduction to shift that communicaitons technology is creating.
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Here is another interesting introduction to shift that communicaitons technology is creating.
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This is worth reading the entire post and thinking about the impact of social media on events and conferences. A way to think about twitter is like a CB channel at an event. Everyone has a radio and the universal channel enables all the participants to comment, talk, ask questions and coordinate activity before, during and after an event. Will this change conferences? … YES.
Once the conference began, the dynamics in the room were amazing: we were listening to the presentation, debriefing comments as they were being said, typing in the live chat and sending tweets. Those walking by our War Room saw a frenzied team in hyper-overdrive, on high alert, working and talking at once.
On day one, we sat through two painful presentations: one very disorganized and one with some inaccurate and outdated information. Both of these presentations dealt with low-cost or free technology strategies and web tools.
On day two, we decided to turn to the Twittersphere to see if other social media mavens and gurus agreed with what ASAE was presenting. As we tweeted ASAE positions or statements, the Twitter and social media pros began to respond to us with facts, data, reports and articles contradicting what ASAE had said. Some of their responses were:
- @ replies (replies directly to us) or
- DM (private direct text messages).
- And some were RT (retweets) where I reposted their tweet to the entire Twittersphere.
I was hoping someone from ASAE was listening, following our conversations, or had their Google Alerts or TweetBeep set so they would know we were tweeting about them. No one from ASAE replied.
Twitter Trumps Online Conference - Six Steps For Using Twitter For Your Conference Or Event
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I have been working a bit lately on the ideas around the "new recovery" for the "new depression." How are we going to make this recovery quicker? How will it be different? Please come over and join the conversation.
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After tweaking and refining over the last several weeks, I finally believe I have a system of software and web services figured out that support me in my work to connect with peers, scan the web and react and publish my thoughts/reaction to the conversation. etc.
About me. I do not write code. I don’t know how to operate a tar ball. I want things easy and out of the way. This entire package is a few dollars a month for typepad (hosts this blog ). I tend to work long hours and spend a bit of my nights scanning the online space. I don’t mind putting the time in to set up each of these because they pay off pretty well. I have a Vista laptop with all Office 2007 tools and an Iphone.
I am an Executive Director at a nonprofit organization a part of my job and work consists of;
As a network and organizer, my instinct is to leverage a vast and far flung collection of people accelerate my learning, broaden my view and deepen my thinking. I need to keep my ear to the web.
I am not interested in web traffic. I don’t do this for ad revenue. I am mostly interested in more fully developing my thoughts. I am interested in getting things done in campaigns. I am interested in providing our partners and clients with a really solid understanding of what is going on across the online organizing space.
Additionally, my online activity is a bit “social”. I am interested in sharing information with a small group of friends, peers and coworkers in the progressive movement. I am interested in conversation. I do some of my reading and reacting to stay in touch benefit from, and help my friends.
I don’t want it to take more than an hour or two to scan, grab, kick around, react and publish.
I love to meet people for coffee. I spend 40%-60% of my day in meetings or on the phone with people. I love the value and richness of face to face and phone conversations. Phone calls are the best for me but if I have time to tune in and kick updates around with peers I don’t like the demand that email correspondence puts on us for social interaction. I feel really bad when I can’t reply to someone's email. I also no longer feel comfortable sending random update email to friends trying to get us all caught up. In addition to my email, I stay in touch by communicating via
Posted at 11:57 PM in Communication Technology, netcentric, nptech, Personal Rants, Web/Tech, Weblogs | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
This is the next evolution to organizing. We see this "honest signals" in our advocacy work everyday. We now are getting to the point that the feedback on networks is going to enable us to get smarter and adopt quicker on the ways we engage and lead. I am a new fan of Sandy Pentland
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Ok, I am not sure why that song is in my head but i just finished a survey set up by Andy Goodman.
I realized as I wrote my responses how few of the webinars I attend suck because of technology. (I use dim-dim, webex and Adobe connect). I also use skype for small groups and have been turning video on more often.
The good webinars are driven by the same "good things" as meetings. Just because the travel is cheaper DOES NOT mean the meetings will be better or worse.
The great thing about this survey is that if you fill it out ...you get the results. Here is the survey link
Andy also sent an email to promote the survey....
Given the current economic climate, everyone’s looking for ways to cut costs and work smarter. And that means more organizations may turn to teleconferences, videoconferences and webinars instead of in-person meetings. Makes sense in theory, but will this really be a good thing?
You’ve probably endured enough badly-run “long distance meetings” to agree that these can be serious time-wasters. On the other hand, there are some organizations that are learning how to master these technologies. Our colleague Andy Goodman (author of Why Bad Presentations Happen to Good Causes) wants to find and share those best practices (as well as the common mistakes we should all avoid), but first he needs your help.
His online survey takes only about 10 minutes to complete, and in return for your time, he’ll send you a complete report with all the results in April. So give him just a few minutes now, and hopefully he can save you from countless boring hours in the months to come!
We all really need these webinars to be an important backbone for collaboration and meeting. I strongly recommend you take the survey. ( let me know what song gets stuck in your head. )
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I like this overview. We do some of this in Demystifying the Web presentations.
I use different tools (blog,rss,google reader,listsenves) but the logic behind it is good. You let the network filter and clean the web for what is important to you. Small groups filter and discuss. (I let the indicaiton of discussion tell me something is interesting.) I focus my "filter value" on the networks issues.
I also like the technique at the end for Q&A. He turns to the video and then answers questions.
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