Another Great Use For Twitter, “Attend” A Conference Remotely
Anyone else a touch disappointed that you aren’t at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco? You should check out the conference’s Twitter hashtag (#w2s). So many conferences have a hashtag these days, and it turns out that they are a great resource both for attendees, and people who couldn’t make it. I’ve been keeping an eye on Web 2.0′s hashtag yesterday and today, and was able to get some pretty interesting information, and insights, in real time. For example, here’s a link (from yesterday) to Mary Meeker’s presentation on Economic & Internet Trends (it contains some great data on the mobile space, and Apple’s dominance).
And this morning’s big news is the fact that Bing is integrating real time data from Twitter and Facebook into their site (your move Google).
In case you missed the link above to the conference hashtag, here’s another one: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=w2s. Check it out and let me know what you think about “attending” a conference this way. It’s obviously not the same as being there, but a pretty good “Plan B” in my opinion.
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