Using Social Media at Conferences and Other Events: Backchannel, Amplification, Remote Participation and Legacy Brian Kelly, UKOLN University of Bath Bath, UK, BA2 7AY UKOLN is supported by: This work is licensed under a Attribution 2.0 licence (but note caveat) Acceptable Use Policy Recording this talk, taking photos, discussing the content using Twitter, blogs, etc. is permitted providing distractions to others is minimised. Acceptable Use Policy Recording this talk, taking photos, discussing the content using Twitter, blogs, etc. is permitted providing distractions to others is minimised. Blog: Twitter: #solo12SMC

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About the Facilitators Brian Kelly: Blogs at ukwebfocus.wordpress.com Works at UKOLN, University of Bath Tony Hirst: Blogs at ouseful.info Works at Open University 3 Both active in providing various aspects of ‘amplified events’

About the Session Approaches such as Twitter event hashtags, video or audio streaming of talks and preserving conference resources such as slides, recording talks and Twitter archives for use after the event are now embedded within certain sectors of the research community, particularly events with a focus on open access and use of social media. This participative session will provide an opportunity for participants to hear about emerging practices for amplification of events, including analysis of associated metrics. The session will also address potential barriers and concerns when event amplification may not be appropriate. 4

Structure Amplified events: a review What is an ‘event’? How can technologies help? How can we identify & measure the benefits? What are the barriers to doing more? Useful resources 5

Real-time Peer Review: 2003 'Hot' or Not? Welcome to real-time peer review The keynote speaker was clear. He informed his audience during [the WWW 2003 conference] that none other than Tim Berners-Lee … had first referred to embedded menus as hot links. A few minutes later, while the speaker was still in full flow, delegates … learnt that this was not the case, at least as Berners-Lee himself remembers it. He had joined the electronic discussion that was accompanying the lecture and in a brief message … stated: "I didn't call them 'hot'. I just called them links." 6 'Hot' or Not? Welcome to real-time peer review, Paul Shabajee, Times Higher Education Supplement (London), 1 August 2003 Review

THE Article - Concerns Potential Negative Aspects: “about 10 per cent of the audience had laptops - one person was heard to say that the noise of tapping keyboards drowned the speaker out at the back of the room. … it can be very distracting having someone typing quickly and reading beside you, rather than watching the speaker” “There can also be a feeling of being excluded … by not being part of a particular online group” “It is probable that the speakers will find it hardest to adjust. It may be disconcerting to know that members of your audience are, as you speak, using the web to look at your CV, past work and checking any data that seems a bit dubious” 7 Review

THE Article - Conclusions Conclusions: “… these technologies are likely to be beneficial. The added possibilities for collective learning and analysis, comprehensive notes with insights and links, often far more extensive than the speaker might have, are advantages previously unimaginable. Perhaps the richest potential lies in the interaction between members of the audience, particularly if you believe that learning and the generation of knowledge are active, engaging and social processes 8 Review Emphasis added See also Amplified Conference article in Wikipedia

9 IWMW – an amplified event for practitioners

Opportunities and challenges for speakers 10

Who Pays? Opportunities for remote audience See Streaming of IWMW 2012 Plenary Talks – But Who Pays?, UK Web Focus blog, 18 Jun

What is An Event? Group Exercise What is an event? What is the purpose of an event? What helps make an event successful? How might technologies help to support the purposes? 12

Conference photo: conference/ conference/ 13

IWMW 2012: sizes/h/in/photostream/ sizes/h/in/photostream/ 14

IWWM 2012: sizes/l/in/photostream/ sizes/l/in/photostream/ 15

DevCSI Data journalism workshop photo: l/in/photostream/ l/in/photostream/ 16

IWMW 2012: / / 17

How Can Technologies Help? Case Study IWMW – Institutional Web Management Workshop Running for 16 years Aimed at those involved in the provision of institutional Web services Try to be innovative and experimental Like to look at externally hosted services as well as institution services Increasing number of remote attendees Evaluation is key! 18

Amplifying Events Video it: Canon HG20 and Panasonic NV-GS17 Flip Camera, camera phone – short ‘vox pox’ videos Vimeo YouTube Bliptv Twitcam Editing - VideoSpin 19

Amplifying Events Stream it: Livestream Livestream for Facebook Bambuser Qik justin.tv Ustream Adobe Connect 20

Amplifying Events Snap it: 21

Amplifying Events Slide it: Slideshare Slidecast (slides + podcast/audio) Slideshare groups Authorstream – present live Posters – Scribd Aggregation - Lanyrd 22

Amplifying Events Tweet it: #Hashtags Twitter, Tweetdeck, Twitterific, Twitpic Twitterfall, Hootsuite Summarizr TAGS iTitle Twubs Eventifier 23

Amplifying Events IWMW Case Live Twitter accounts Hash tag #iwmw12 Hash tags for sessions #p1 #remote for technical issues Twitterwall – Twitterfall 24

Amplifying Events Event Amplifier 25

Measuring the Success? Tony Hirst to provide live demo 26

Useful Resources Using networked technologies to support conferences. Kelly, B., Tonkin, E., Shabajee, P. EUNIS 2005 conference Described examples Outlined benefits Provide deployment framework 27 Framework covered policy issues, user needs, technical issues, human & organisational issues

Useful Resources Greening Events II: Event Amplification Report Events Planning Toolkit to help event organisers think through what type of event they need to hold & to provide assistance in the form of guidelines & tools with each stage in the process to enable them to reduce the negative sustainability impacts of their event. See 28 Share other resources on Google Docs page for this session:

29 Questions Any final questions?