Comments on: 3 Reasons Why Live-Blogging (And Twittering) Is A Good Thing http://davefleet.com/2007/12/3-reasons-why-live-blogging-and/ Exploring the intersection of communications, marketing and social media Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:29:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: scottwitter http://davefleet.com/2007/12/3-reasons-why-live-blogging-and/#comment-42 scottwitter Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:39:31 +0000 http://davefleet.com/?p=72#comment-42 Hi Dave, I find that multiple twitterers at a single event like VON boston is very powerful and flexible in its use in that it is scalable, adaptive, exclusive, and public with simplicity. (groups would be nice). I was listening to Calicanis speak while monitoring twitters, i had my own viewpoint on what i thought was significant, twittering to the outside world, and i could see that LenEdgerly and others were picking up on other details, extrapolations, play by play commentary? If i was writing a post mortem on Jason's speach alone i would have much more insight immediatley after than if i had to go back to my hotel room and research. i guess you could say it was like having different camera angles on the same speaker ? Also of interest was looking for rooms with the best speakers. I found that I could follow tweets from all the various rooms and decide where to go, where was the best speaker or event or stay put. On more than one occasion did i find myself in an uneventful room and then poll other tweeters for their reccomendations. so rather than blindly go from room to room opening doors and interuppting i just found the right room before i moved to it. So twitter acted like a walkie talkie. Then there were 2 amazing twitter meetups with Jim Long and Jeff Pulver and Chris Brogan, Len Edgerly, and dozens of others that i had been following/followers and amazingly i got invited and met everyone. That blew me away. not the fan/stalker kind of way but the power to connect and make things happen. simplicity and power. twitter makes things happen. Hi Dave,
I find that multiple twitterers at a single event like VON boston is very powerful and flexible in its use in that it is scalable, adaptive, exclusive, and public with simplicity.
(groups would be nice).
I was listening to Calicanis speak while monitoring twitters, i had my own viewpoint on what i thought was significant, twittering to the outside world, and i could see that LenEdgerly and others were picking up on other details, extrapolations, play by play commentary? If i was writing a post mortem on Jason’s speach alone i would have much more insight immediatley after than if i had to go back to my hotel room and research. i guess you could say it was like having different camera angles on the same speaker ?

Also of interest was looking for rooms with the best speakers. I found that I could follow tweets from all the various rooms and decide where to go, where was the best speaker or event or stay put. On more than one occasion did i find myself in an uneventful room and then poll other tweeters for their reccomendations. so rather than blindly go from room to room opening doors and interuppting i just found the right room before i moved to it.
So twitter acted like a walkie talkie.

Then there were 2 amazing twitter meetups with Jim Long and Jeff Pulver and Chris Brogan, Len Edgerly, and dozens of others that i had been following/followers and amazingly i got invited and met everyone. That blew me away. not the fan/stalker kind of way but the power to connect and make things happen.

simplicity and power.

twitter makes things happen.

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