For participants of Stanford's '08 Publishing on the Web Workshop
Twitter Team Coverage
Join the Crowd (Sourcing): Help Us Cover the Conference With Twitter
We invite you to take part in a team reporting exercise that will run during the three and a half days of Stanford Publishing on the Web. As many tech-related meetings do these days, we're encouraging participants to provide real-time, bite-sized coverage of the conference using Twitter, the increasingly popular social microblogging tool. We'll point everyone at the conference (and beyond) to a place where all the individual reports will be collected into a sort of mosaic portrait of POW 2008.
Here's how it works:
Of course, the results will be interesting only if we enlist a significant number of volunteers. So please consider joining in. Your tweets don’t have to be profound or carefully crafted; they’re just tidbits (you only get 140 characters per update). If nothing else, this will give you an appreciation for the challenges and potential benefits of crowd sourcing. And you'll get a sense of what Twittering is all about.
If you’re curious to see what this aggregated coverage looks like, see the Twitter Search results from these two recent meetings: Health2.0 (search #health2.0) and Web2.0 (search #web2summit). Thanks.
We invite you to take part in a team reporting exercise that will run during the three and a half days of Stanford Publishing on the Web. As many tech-related meetings do these days, we're encouraging participants to provide real-time, bite-sized coverage of the conference using Twitter, the increasingly popular social microblogging tool. We'll point everyone at the conference (and beyond) to a place where all the individual reports will be collected into a sort of mosaic portrait of POW 2008.
Here's how it works:
- As you attend sessions, you post an occasional "tweet" using your own Twitter account. (If you don't already have one, it just takes a minute to set one up at twitter.com.) If a speaker's point strikes you as particularly perceptive, if you learn a surprising insight or bit of data, or if you hear a quotable quote, just write a quick dispatch.
- This is a critical step: Be sure to include the label "#pow08" (for Publishing on the Web 2008) at the start or the end of your posting. That pow08 hashtag allows the Web site Twitter Search to zero in on all the reports from our volunteers.
- To see the most recent accumulation of conference updates, go to http://search.twitter.com/ and type in "#pow08" (without the quotation marks)--or just click straight through to this #pow08 search results page. Refresh the page periodically to see the very latest stuff.
Of course, the results will be interesting only if we enlist a significant number of volunteers. So please consider joining in. Your tweets don’t have to be profound or carefully crafted; they’re just tidbits (you only get 140 characters per update). If nothing else, this will give you an appreciation for the challenges and potential benefits of crowd sourcing. And you'll get a sense of what Twittering is all about.
If you’re curious to see what this aggregated coverage looks like, see the Twitter Search results from these two recent meetings: Health2.0 (search #health2.0) and Web2.0 (search #web2summit). Thanks.
Last updated by Michael Gold Nov. 12, 2008.
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