Twitter atInteraction 09

@whitneyhess

Twitter at Conferences• Connect with other attendees

• Find conference info quickly

• Be in two places at once

• Participate in the back-channel (like passing notes in class)

• #Hashtag as conference ID

My Incessant Live-Twittering

• I’m a Twitter fiend

• Twitter quotes and insights from sessions

• Promote the conference to non-attendees

• Post conference recap on my blog(@yoni’s Tweet-to-Blog)

• Boxes and Arrows sponsorship

“Stratweetegy”• “How to use Twitter” in the Interaction 09

conference program

• Stratweetegy = Twitter Strategy

• Initiated by a single tweet from @Fred_Beecher, with encouragement from others

How It All Started

http://www.flickr.com/photos/shoobe01/

Stratweetgy Success?• Few people used the session specific

hashtags; hard to reference program

• Most everyone used #ixd09

• Still, tons of value from the Twitter stream during sessions and for non-attendees

• Billboards more of a gimmick, less useful

Non-Attendee Participation

Sustainable Design

IxD vs. UX

Post-Conference Introspection

Get on the Twitter Bandwagon!

All tweets about Interaction 09:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ixd09

Yoni’s Tweet-to-Blog:

http://twitter.infinityplusone.com/?app=tweettoblog&

Follow me!

http://twitter.com/whitneyhess