Twitter has quickly become the must-have channel for conference back-chat. Twitter is also a great way to attend a conference without actually being there – just follow a conference hashtag (e.g. #smib09 But watch out Twitter. The result would be a crowd-sourced write-up Image courtesy of Shutterstock Reading what other people tweet during a speech provides an extra dimension as you get a sense of what the audience is thinking.

(nearly 100) Here’s a list of journalists from Australian (mostly mainstream, some New Zealanders) media who have embraced, indeed are head over heels, in love with Twitter. Trevor Cook put a dozen Australian Journalists on Twitter together. Here is a little formula I just cooked up called the Tweet-GQ (Tweet Gary Quotient) that works out a Twitter rating. Let’s sit here and watch them. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes . Who watches the watchers themselves? By the way, the first social networking book I ever read was The Republic by Plato, mashing’up and

I've now participated in three Twitter chat sessions. I've interviewed Rinus about his way of facilitating a twitter chat. Why did you start facilitating Twitter Chats? It started with a movie that I saw about Twitter Tuesday for the U.S. I said jokingly, that we could start a twitter Tuesday in the Netherlands. The first time was I late, I arrived on the scene towards the end. The second I could not really follow well, I saw all these separate and short messages.

The folks over at BrandonHall, the learning folks who blog lots of interesting links, pointed out a value of Twitter that not all of us may have seen yet. Twitter as a search engine. The question always comes up “why would we be interested in something like Twitter. This was interesting to me because I’m co-leading a short online workshop introducing social media in a global international development network. One application I try to show is Twitter as social listening.

We’ve posted before about why Twitter lists are great and some of the uses that can be made with them. Here’s a guide to how you can use Twitter Lists in this way. Twitter Lists for social media monitoring This is where Twitter Lists come in useful. Image by koalazymonkey via Flickr Over the last few weeks since they were launched to all users, we have been experimenting with them at FreshNetworks and with our clients.

Ross Mayfield put forth a pretty interesting question on Twitter (see below). Twitter Twitter is referred to as a micro-blogging tool. The service allows people to post and read brief (140 character) messages (called Tweets) to the Twitter service. It's a great question - my thoughts below: Enterprise Instant Messaging (IM)

Sometimes you do it on Twitter. It’s not just staff that get told off when they have a moan on Twitter – have a look at this exchange: think you’d have to be really really clear that you are justified in sacking a customer for a Twitter comment before you asked them to move on. How NOT to do Customer Service on Twitter Crucial Paradigm is a post from: Laurel Sometimes you get frustrated and really let loose. Sometimes you just say WTF and walk away.

People are often comparing Twitter with Facebook. Twitter is not about this at all. Twitter, on the other hand is not really built for connecting with people - its real value comes from the comments and contributions that are added to its database and that can then be searched. That’s why I’ve always preferred to compare Twitter with Google. Image by manfrys via Flickr They’re wrong to do this.

In fact as more world leaders move onto Twitter, the horses mouth has never been so evident. Either the blogosphere is one big echo chamber, repeating each others articles – or worse, pinching them from the Press  – with bloggers agreeing with each other and readers can never get a different viewpoint OR no one agrees with anyone online and it’s just a big chatfest of negativity, anonymous comments and flame wars. Or a Twitterer? I spoke at Media140 Sydney – I want to highlight some of the “arguments” used against social media by the panels, also focus on Everybody co-creating The Human Narrative and the diminishing role of journalists who take news from one part  of the community and deliver it to another part:  It’s not YOUR content.

Then you must watch The Twitter Experiment by Dr. an experiment by which she uses Twitter with her students to help improve the overall flow of not only the classroom itself, but the interactions, and conversations, of the various students, amongst themselves and also with her. Then I would suggest you go and read " Some general comments on the "Twitter Experiment "" to find out some more around her conclusions on how effective microsharing in the classroom, i.e. After a couple of days off from my regular blogging activities, as I went on a business trip to Madrid for a couple of days end of last week to share some more thoughts and insights on social software adoption at an internal event, I am now back once more.