Over the last week, EdMedia was taking place in Hawaii and Twitter was able to deliver some of the key ideas, enabling those who couldn’t be there to vicariously participate. One of my tweets wound up on top of the screen during one of the keynotes, quickly garnering some tweetbacks from the conference – it certainly felt like I was virtually there.
This meme propogation and participation isn’t anything new for Twitter, but the utility of the backchannel in a conference certainly became real for me as a remote observer. There have been other conferences to use this, but EdMedia was likely one of the first Edtech conferences to do it and do it well.
Participation in world events like MJ’s death and the Iranian “election” were also fully featured in Twitter this week, both massively stressing the system. Participation in personal events, like Adam Savage’s AT&T bill also showed how companies can no longer afford to be “cloak and dagger” with their activities as one popular or motivated follower can bring attention to even the slightest missive.
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