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 twitter, webtools. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.



July 23rd, 2007 at 5:19 pm
I called my cell phone service to take off the text messaging subscription… We’ll see what happens for the *next* meeting …
February 27th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
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…
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:54 pm
[...] 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. [...]