My first experience at a Twitter enhanced presentation

October 1, 2009 by Colby
Filed under: Nutrition 2.0, Twitter in presentations 

Last Thursday, I went to see Michael Pollan at the Kohl Center in Madison.  It was a great talk, and my first time seeing him speak in person.  The 7,000+ in attendance gave it an energy that made it well worth attending even though it was available through an online stream.  But if I couldn’t have caught it in person or online, there was another option to follow what he was saying: Twitter.

I have read plenty of accounts of Twitter tags being used at conferences to update those who cannot attend with what is being discussed, and meet and have conversations with others attending.  No nutrition conferences or lectures/presentations have caught my attention, though they very may well occur (please let me know if you have good examples).

Tonight before he started, they put up a turn off your cell phones sign but feel free to tweet #gobigread.  For those who are not familiar with Twitter hashtags, they allow others to add to a conversation by displaying all tweets with the tag on a page, for example: http://twitter.com/#search?q=#gobigread.  You just search for the hashtag they give you to view what others are saying and add it to the end of your tweets if you want everyone to see it.

Someone under the account @GoBigRead tweeted during the talk the main points that he was saying.  And others using the #gobigread tag could also add content to the stream as well.  Services like Twitterfall or Tweetchat allow for live streaming of tags if you want to follow in real time, or other clients are only slightly delayed.

After the presentation, I checked what was being posted and found many additional perspectives and links to articles that further expanded my understanding on what people from different backgrounds think of Pollan’s ideas that I would not have without Twitter.

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