Dr Andrea Bundon Design and the Digital World - Session 4

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Twitter at Conferences:
Tips for Organisers and Delegates
Dr Andrea Bundon

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Conferences are short-term events
Twitter can help you leverage conferences to have
long-term effects
Requires advance planning

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Registration
Include ‘what is your Twitter
handle?’
Start tweeting as sessions are
organised and papers accepted
Planning
Create event Twitter account
• Email address?
• Handle?
• Hashtag?
• Who???
Build-up to event
Include Twitter handle in ALL
communication
Start tweeting updates
Retweet accounts that will have
similar audiences

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Post conference
During conference
Post handle and hashtag
everywhere!
Create lists of Twitter names of
presenters by session
Have assigned ‘tweeter’ in every
room
TWEETWALL

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Now that you have the
network….

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Targeting shared audiences,
Targeting influencers
Dr Andrea Bundon

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Who will be interested in sharing your work?
How, where and when do they communicate?
How can you help them?

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