I\u2019ve been asked by a couple of people involved in organ\u00adising con\u00adfer\u00adences why they should have a con\u00adfer\u00adence Twit\u00adter account, so I fig\u00adure it\u2019s a gen\u00ader\u00adal enough ques\u00adtion to be worth blog\u00adging. Basic\u00adally, it\u2019s all about start\u00ading or con\u00adtinu\u00ading your con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtion with those who attend, or might attend, or have atten\u00added, or are inter\u00adested in the sub\u00adjects your con\u00adfer\u00adence covers.<\/p>\n
If we take that as a start\u00ading point, then that answers the \u201cwhy\u201d, and Twit\u00adter itself answers the \u201chow\u201d, so we\u2019re more or less left with the \u201cwhat\u201d (as in, what to tweet). Of course it depends on what sort of con\u00adfer\u00adence you\u2019re run\u00adning. One way to look at them is pre\u2011, dur\u00ading, and post-conference.<\/p>\n
Pre-con\u00adfer\u00adence: use twit\u00adter as an adjunct to the con\u00adfer\u00adence web site, to remind people of impend\u00ading dead\u00adlines, tell them of the new speak\u00aders who are signed up, or the new tracks that have been added. Even the fact that you\u2019re get\u00adting the plan\u00adning com\u00admit\u00adtee togeth\u00ader is tweet-worthy, as it tells people the con\u00adfer\u00adence is being planned, even if the web site does\u00adn\u2019t show it yet (and we all know how long it often takes to update the con\u00adfer\u00adence web site). If the hotel is about to sell out, let people know. If fun swag has arrived for the attendees, let them know that too.<\/p>\n
This is also the right time to tweet about art\u00adicles or blog posts the speak\u00aders have writ\u00adten (point\u00ading out they\u2019re speak\u00ading, of course), or news items related to the sub\u00adject of the conference. <\/p>\n
Dur\u00ading the con\u00adfer\u00adence: you can remind people about today\u2019s social events, tell them of changes to the sched\u00adule, remind them where the exhib\u00adits are if you have an exhib\u00adit hall. Point to people who are live-blog\u00adging the event, if any. Remind people which tag to use for pho\u00adtos. I\u2019d advise against tweet\u00ading so much inform\u00ada\u00adtion that people are pay\u00ading more atten\u00adtion to the con\u00adfer\u00adence tweets than the speak\u00aders; con\u00adtests and the like can be dan\u00adger\u00adous for this reas\u00adon (unless it\u2019s a con\u00adfer\u00adence based on twitter).<\/p>\n
Post-con\u00adfer\u00adence: point to blogs, write-ups, and photo pools from the event, let people know when plan\u00adning for the next one starts, ask for sug\u00adges\u00adtions for speak\u00aders and top\u00adics for the next one.<\/p>\n
A couple of tips about fol\u00adlow\u00aders: fol\u00adlow people who fol\u00adlow you, except for obvi\u00adous spam\u00admers or mar\u00adketers. Con\u00adsider fol\u00adlow\u00ading all the speak\u00aders you can. Don\u2019t worry too much about how many fol\u00adlow\u00aders the con\u00adfer\u00adence account has; if every speak\u00ader retweets only the tweets about them, you\u2019ll still pass the word around to people who by defin\u00adi\u00adtion should be inter\u00adested in the con\u00adfer\u00adence con\u00adtent.I\u2019m sure there are oth\u00ader ideas for con\u00adtent, but these will at least get you started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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