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Interesting, if not completely successful, experiment with twitter

The previous post talked about the tweets appearing in the sidebar, but sometime before Convention, I moved them to a separate page, change.bbvx.org/tweets/ that you can find in the horizontal menu at the top of the page.

We didn’t do a good job of advertising this (ask me over a beer about the failed strategies), but a couple of us did post from a cell phone or blackberry to the web from the Convention Center.

One characteristic of the twitter.com postings is that they are “transient” — that page is probably empty now.

We also had a technical glitch on Sunday/Monday that meant the “real-time” tweets from the convention floor (on the bylaws changes and the public policy debate) were lost in cyber-space somewhere. But it was a start.

Perhaps with the leadership meetings tentatively planned for next summer we’ll be able to exchange information  among the different venues — and allow the folks “back home” to get the flavor of the event even if their schedules prevent them  from attending.

Here are a few examples of what you would have seen if you’d gone to that “tweets” page or to the twitter.com/aauw07/with_friends page during the convention.

Examples:

This entry was posted on Thursday, July 5th, 2007 at 8:25 pm by Nancy and is filed under Web 2.0 with tags , . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

There is 3 comments to this post.
  1. Nancy Says:

    I called my cell phone service to take off the text messaging subscription… We’ll see what happens for the *next* meeting …


  2. Nancy Says:

    Twitter has dropped support for the “with friends” feature. However, since @aauw has started tweeting, perhaps we’ll have a chance to make twitter part of the St. Louis convention. I’ll be looking into “grouptweet.com” for some things…


  3. Change » Blog Archive » What a difference two years makes! Says:

    [...] In 2007, in response to the culture change to have more information immediately available, we also tried using twitter to get information out from the floor of the convention. Louse (@weegspin), Kate (@skeggy), and I (@nes49) were pretty much shouting into the void, though — there was no real way to get the word out to the members that another information stream existed. See the report on that experiment. [...]


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