Social media complements live events at #DigiTalksChelt

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The interaction lives on: so many 'conferences' are traditionally set up as one-way show-and-tell broadcasts. Social media turns the tables and makes them truly a place to confer.

#DigiTalksChelt is set up as a regular meeting on technology, design and ideas on digital media.
  • The organizing team uses Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and a bunch of other social media properties to draw a crowd of fifty or so industry specialists keen to lift their eyes from the keyboards for a couple of hours every couple of months. It's a chance to think more generally and interact with others who have insight.
  • Three speakers or so introduce their subject and the audience gets to interact with questions during, after, and over drinks breaks during the evening.
  • But the #DigiTalksChelt hashtag provides a means for folk to comment during the event; and afterwards; and over subsequent hours and days, even though the crowd disperses.
  • Last time round we got a web-delivered pitch on HTML5 and CSS3; and the social media also makes it possible to review slides, notes, presentations after the event and over time.

With a brief to get interaction going and put a couple of alternative points of view, Twitter has proved invaluable as a means to keep the conversation alive during the night and morning after the event. Here's a sample:


 Firehoop 

We're looking forward to hearing from   &  at this Thursday's . Who's in? There'll be music...
 ImGloucestershire365 

The ImGloucestershire365 Daily is out!  ▸ Top stories today via    
 Rich Mehta 

Some interesting points on privacy and security by . Bringing up PSN, EC2 and Blogger outages/hacks. 
 Rich Mehta 

"If you're not paying, they're selling your information" -  
 Reid Derby 

 raises some subtle & important points about cloud security & economics at  but these are bigger Cyber questions
 Rob Mason 

The cloud "fight" at  seems to be more about the crowd kicking the presenters for slight confusion.
 Mike Schorah 

@ 
 so the plan to stir some audience reaction worked then! ;)
 Rob Mason 

@ 
 definitely, although I think some of the comments were a bit picky! Good talk though.
 Andy Davies 

Man talking bollocks at 
 Mike Schorah 

@ 
 glad the plan to get people reacting and thinking worked! Best, Mike
 Andy Davies 

@ 
 :-) The reality is far more nuanced and I don't think you really believed your own argument - that makes it hard /cc 
 Jeremy Power 

Very good example of a presentation without PowerPoint by  at    
 Sue Ryan 

  for thought-provoking ideas and cool visuals at  - sorry I rushed away, will def talk at nxt one!
 Andy Davies 

  I think you did well with a difficult subject last night.
 Andy Davies 

  *I* think most of cloud as consumer services are really just webapps rather than cloud (but that's hype for you!)
 Mike Schorah 

@ 
  *We* know that app is not cloud; but consumers confused & don't 'get' the subtlety, or the cost of participation
You get the idea... This selection shows how the debate is continuing even beyond the boundaries of the conference time and place... Cool!
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