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Talking Twitter at BarCampCalgary2
I decided to fully embrace the idea of BarCamp on Saturday, and put my name down to do a presentation. I hadn’t planned to do one, and I certainly didn’t have anything prepared, so it was a “game-time decision” as I like to say. I figured I’d talk about Twitter, since I talked about it all the time anyway. I titled my talk:
Why Twitter Will Rule The World
Catchy right? Must have worked, because there were a lot of people in the room. I started with a brief overview and introduction, and then started showing some third party tools that make Twitter really useful, such as Summize and TwitterLocal. I also spent a little bit of time extolling the virtues of FriendFeed.
The best part of the presentation was the discussion. We talked about the signal-noise ratio of Twitter, and decided that there’s value in noise. We talked about spam, how Twitter breaks news, the scalability issues, and where we see Twitter going in the future. It was great, and the questions people asked definitely gave me something to think about.
Maybe I’ll lead a Twitter discussion at BarCampEdmonton in July. Definitely seems as though there’s interest.
Thanks to John Bristowe for letting me use his laptop (mine wouldn’t output to the projector for some reason). You can follow me on Twitter here.
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Tags: barcamp, barcampcalgary, calgary, events, microblogging, micromedia, twitter
Categories: Uncategorized | 6 Comments »
June 18th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Wish I could have been there for that discussion. I don’t know about Twitter ruling the world. Call me a skeptic.
I’m hoping to be at BarCamp Edmonton so maybe I’ll put my 2 cents in.
June 18th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
Would be great to have you at BarCampEdmonton!
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