twitter at interaction09
Post on 18-Oct-2014
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I was one of the presenters at IxDA NYC's Recap of Interaction 09.TRANSCRIPT
Twitter atInteraction 09
@whitneyhess
Twitter at Conferences• Connect with other attendees
• Find conference info quickly
• Be in two places at once
• Participate in the back-channel (like passing notes in class)
• #Hashtag as conference ID
My Incessant Live-Twittering
• I’m a Twitter fiend
• Twitter quotes and insights from sessions
• Promote the conference to non-attendees
• Post conference recap on my blog(@yoni’s Tweet-to-Blog)
• Boxes and Arrows sponsorship
“Stratweetegy”• “How to use Twitter” in the Interaction 09
conference program
• Stratweetegy = Twitter Strategy
• Initiated by a single tweet from @Fred_Beecher, with encouragement from others
How It All Started
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shoobe01/
Stratweetgy Success?• Few people used the session specific
hashtags; hard to reference program
• Most everyone used #ixd09
• Still, tons of value from the Twitter stream during sessions and for non-attendees
• Billboards more of a gimmick, less useful
Non-Attendee Participation
Sustainable Design
IxD vs. UX
Post-Conference Introspection
Get on the Twitter Bandwagon!
All tweets about Interaction 09:
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ixd09
Yoni’s Tweet-to-Blog:
http://twitter.infinityplusone.com/?app=tweettoblog&
Follow me!
http://twitter.com/whitneyhess