LoudTwitter

I just disabled LoudTwitter autoposting. I thought it would be interesting to publish a daily digest of tweets, but after seeing it for a week or so, it just looked obnoxious… especially when the treats were parts of conversations, as opposed to just thoughts or observations.

Tweets for Today

• 08:16 @jowyang you should do a book club, like Oprah. I’m serious (except for the Oprah part) #

Tweets for Today

• 15:51 @leolaporte How about another Live TWiT at Noonans? #
• 15:54 @sashapeterson dude – nice to see you. One word… CABO! #
• 20:16 @mdfw "mauntie"? #
• 21:20 @factoryjoe thanks for the Radiohead! #
• 21:22 rt: factoryjoe Excellent: Radiohead Live at the BBC from April 2008: tinyurl.com/6rpzkg #

Tweets for Today

• 11:29 Tweeps: who is here? At Web2.0pen #
• 13:43 I’m having a ridiculously good time just sitting in the hall by web2open. I’m just shouting down folks as they walk by. efficient #
• 14:45 @rohitbhargava if you get back to SF in time, swing by Six Apart for the Online Community Roundtable – 5:30 – 8:30 #
• 14:47 Ok – got my fill of Web2.0 in ~3 hours. Now at Philz in China Basin #
• 14:49 @simedia @claynewton if you guys are around SF tonight, swing by Six Apart for the Online Community Roundtable – 5:30 – 8:30 #
• 18:53 kicking off online community rountable #
• 23:15 @TechCrunch – Video comments on TC = good. I like the implimentation #
• 09:55 @SamLawrence – stopped by Jive booth but you were gone… wanted to suggest another metaphor: The Enterprise Platypus #

Tweets for Today

• 13:14 @tempo I’m tempted to have a "romper room" at the Online Community Unconference #
• 18:26 Off to the Marin SofTECH meetup. Leaving the warm cocoon of Marin tomorrow for Web2.0 and OC Roundtable #
• 08:52 Still chuckling from a noted PR star saying "the web site" is dead yesterday… I can only imagine what he thinks about the health of PR #
• 08:59 @nejsnave good web strategy was always about "presence", not a single destination, i agree.. maybe the delivery was just damn annoying #

Tweets for Today

• 13:45 The best blog you probably aren’t reading: www.socialtimes.com/ @biznickman is awesome #
• 14:15 @TeteSagehen – Congrats! Great brand, nice move #
• 19:49 wow – no matter where your allegiances lie, you have to admit Obama is 100% a class act. being gracious in victory and defeat = character #
• 19:51 couldn’t they have put Obama shirts on the Abercrombie and Fitch idiots standing behind O? #
• 20:07 @annierodkins you can point folks to the Online Community Roundtable FB group. IF you know peeps that want to come, forward the invite & LMK #
• 20:11 @scottmoore I didn’t follow your re:tweet #
• 08:29 @sharakarasic who is on the panel? #
• 08:59 @Jowyang – Ask how to keep stakeholders (biz side) excited and engaged #

Tweets for Today

• 22:26 If I had a podcast, I would discuss this site regularly www.myjumpsuit.com/ #
• 22:28 My wife is trying to explain the Hills to me. The only part I understand is that Lauren is hot. #
• 22:39 Still a few seats open for the Online Community Roundtable this Thursday L:sixapart in SF #
• 08:27 @sharakarasic – are you around Thursday night? We are doing an online community roundtable at Six Apart #

Liveblogging and the back channel move to Twitter

Cross-posted from the Online Community Report.

One of the more interesting things that happened at the Online Community Business Forum last week didn’t happen during a particular session, but rather, happened to several participants as the sessions of the first day went on. This is a real shift in behavior for these particular participants, as I generally see them using IRC as a back channel, and a few of them live blogging. Twitter was serving both purposes at the OCBF.

Both the conference back channel as well as the live-blogging mostly shifted to Twitter. You can check out the end result of the “Live Tweeting” here: http://twemes.com/ocbf2008

The main benefit I saw of using Twitter during the sessions was that it allowed (at least in a small way) lots of participants who weren’t at the conference to participate.

The main downside is that it’s really hard to pay attention, be present, and full process a conversation while cramming thoughts in to 140 characters per tweet.

In particular, Shara Karasic of Work.com did an awesome job of live tweeting (wow – did I just write live tweeting?) the event.

Thomas Kriese shares his thoughts about the live tweeting phenomenon here.

Do you Twitter? Follow me @billjohnston

Posted by Bill Johnston in Events at 00:41 |

Tweets for Today

• 15:08 finishing up the Roundtable guest list for Thursday night and going for a run @chadcrowell maybe I’ll swing by your casa #
• 20:43 DLR’s Eat ‘Em and Smile in Spanish.. loco y bueno! tinyurl.com/3z4ste #
• 08:07 Google click decline: Comscore was wrong tinyurl.com/3sz6jm #
• 09:45 looking back at pix from last year’s Online Community Unconference in Mountain View www.flickr.com/search/?q=ocu2007 #

Tweets for Today

• 13:44 Father / Daughter day: First batting practice youtube.com/watch?v=Fs-GVg3C0dU #
• 18:35 deep thoughts from a two year old: "daddy, what happened to yesterday?" #