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. Google Wave is going to take this digitally-enabled 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.

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.

We're experimenting with webconferences and I was suggesting to experiment with other tools like a weblog, ning, or a google group. When I saw this video on the free technology for teachers blog with about the use of twitter for educators I was struck by the way they see twitter as THE only tool for educators. How is twitter used by the panel? I'm working with a learning network in education using a sharepoint platform. It's hard to move from face-to-face meeting to online interaction (for a number of reasons and we're writing a whole paper about the challenges).

This week has seen Twitter launch Twitter 101 ; a guide for businesses of how to use Twitter. We’ve looked before at how organisations can use Twitter , and this guide covers the basics as well as showcasing a few cases studies of what some businesses are doing. The guide itself is part a how-to guide, part an explanation of what Twitter is and part a set of ideas and examples. Image by futurowoman via Flickr The fundamental recommendations from Twitter can be summarised in four simple steps

In the spirit of passing time at Christmas, and following on from a heated discussion about the meaning and robustness of community in online environments, I invited 100 of my 1,276 current Twitter followers to fill in a quick survey cunningly designed to provide a fairly wonky measure of community allegiance. I love Twitter and I've spent an unhealthy amount of time hanging out there in the last year. Of course I welcome critical feedback about the methodology employed, but I had two hours sleep last night and yes, I quickly realised the massive cultural bias implicit in most if not all of the questions.

We’ve posted before about how businesses can use Foursquare and only yesterday about Fourwhere , the Foursquare and Google Maps mashup. Twitter : Twitter has for some time allowed users to tag their updates with their location details – this has mainly been done through third-party apps, such as Tweetdeck, and to date locations have not been shown on Twitter’s own website. This update was quickly It is a truth universally acknowledged that everybody makes predictions at the end of a year about ‘the big thing for next year’. Sometimes

A Google bomb is where you take over a keyword - usually a made up name or phrase - and “game” Google’s search: The terms Google bomb and Googlewashing refer to practices intended to influence the ranking of particular pages, in results returned by the Google search engine . (wikipedia) Recent one’s on twitter have been #fisting (informal) and # velociroflcoptersaurus (happner and Amnesia). wikipedia) I

You can do this on a wiki (with comments) or Google Docs (with comments), but the more robust tools I came across were Traction , Basecamp , and Activities on Lotus Connections . I’m finding tools like IBM’s Activites and Google Wave as the new email/IM/attachments space…where conversations take place using a multitude of tools, are threaded in an open place, and don’t have to take place in an existing group space, but instead can be created on-the-fly when the activity arises. A little while ago I talked about not so much groupware, but a middle space, moreso activityware, where you create an object and invite people to add to it.

BLOG Google Wave: The Wikification meeting of Canadian IT leaders today, I was charged with explaining Google Wave will have access to Google Wave, a new tool that integrates the functionality functionality of e-mail, IM, wikis, blogs, Twitter, and other social networking Wikification of Conversation A t a a

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.