For our Twitter and Microblogging conference in April this year, we made Twitter names and room-specific hashtags very prominent. We used Lanyrd before and during the conference to keep people updated about the programme etc. - this integrates quite well with Twitter. It's vital to keep both the conference and room/session-specific hashtags as short as possible. We did have twitter livestreams for our plenary speakers. It generated some interesting discussion, but should definitely be agreed with the speakers in advance! Johnny. Dr J W Unger Lecturer and Academic Director of Summer Programmes Department of Linguistics and English Language Lancaster University LA1 4YL e-mail: j.unger@lancaster.ac.uk<mailto:j.unger@lancaster.ac.uk> tel: +44 1524 592591 Follow me on Twitter @johnnyunger<http://twitter.com/#!/johnnyunger> On 28 Nov 2013, at 14:41, Jen Jack Gieseking <jgieseking@gmail.com<mailto:jgieseking@gmail.com>> wrote: Make sure Twitter handles are on badges under name and affiliation, and clearly demarcate each panel with it's own hashtag to go with the main event hashtag so that you can follow the entire day(s) or just the panel. Huge help. Also, it's possible to run Twitter streams in the main meeting spaces but for #TtW13 we thought it'd be too much on presenters to see that in their rooms. Jack -- Jen Jack Gieseking, Ph.D. New Media and Data Visualization Specialist, Postdoctoral Fellow Digital and Computational Studies Initiative, Bowdoin College jgieseking@gmail.com<mailto:jgieseking@gmail.com> www.jgieseking.org www.spatiallyinclined.org @jgieseking <https://twitter.com/jgieseking> On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 7:52 AM, ME Luka <meluka@gmail.com> wrote: I've seen Guidebook used very effectively for conferences, including schedules, events, photos etc. http://guidebook.com Mary Elizabeth Luka @meluka01 On Nov 27, 2013, at 7:56 PM, jose marichal <marichal@callutheran.edu> wrote: Colleagues, I've been asked to come up with ideas on innovative and useful ways to incorporate social media tools into an upcoming academic conference in the social sciences. Have any of you come across some particularly useful integrations of social media/web tool at academic conferences. Thanks, Jose -- _______________________________________________________________________________________ josé marichal, ph.d. | associate professor | political science <http://about.me/marichal> department | california lutheran university 60 w. olsen road | #3800 | thousand oaks, ca 91360 805-493-3328 _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/