Comments on: ASAE Reflections — “Most Valuable Tweets 140 Characters at a Time” http://www.michaelmccurry.net/2009/08/17/asae-reflections-most-valuable-tweets-140-characters-at-a-time/ Inspired Words in the Service of Fellow Human Beings Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:32:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Michael M McCurry CMP http://www.michaelmccurry.net/2009/08/17/asae-reflections-most-valuable-tweets-140-characters-at-a-time/comment-page-1/#comment-173 Michael M McCurry CMP Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:36:51 +0000 http://www.michaelmccurry.net/?p=1203#comment-173 <a href="#comment-171" rel="nofollow">@Maggie McGary</a>, Your feedback is dead on right! I have been so impressed with the connectivity that has been created by the hashtag twitter stream at ASAE09. More importantly, it was not the technology it was the engagement of the attendees and their desire to help their virtual colleagues understand what was going on. I absolutely love it .... and I am sure there will be lots of learning lessons for the ASAE team, in addition to the celebration points. Safe travels back home and look forward to connecting face2face sometime! @michaelmccurry @Maggie McGary,

Your feedback is dead on right! I have been so impressed with the connectivity that has been created by the hashtag twitter stream at ASAE09. More importantly, it was not the technology it was the engagement of the attendees and their desire to help their virtual colleagues understand what was going on.

I absolutely love it …. and I am sure there will be lots of learning lessons for the ASAE team, in addition to the celebration points.

Safe travels back home and look forward to connecting face2face sometime!

@michaelmccurry

]]> By: Michael M McCurry CMP http://www.michaelmccurry.net/2009/08/17/asae-reflections-most-valuable-tweets-140-characters-at-a-time/comment-page-1/#comment-172 Michael M McCurry CMP Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:32:38 +0000 http://www.michaelmccurry.net/?p=1203#comment-172 <a href="#comment-170" rel="nofollow">@Anne Ornelas de Lemos</a>, Thanks so much for your comments. You are so right about how messaging can get skewed in a virtual environment. We all need to be careful about making sure we are as factual as possible in passing on information. Hope your travels are safe back home and hope we meet sometime! @michaelmccurry @Anne Ornelas de Lemos,

Thanks so much for your comments.

You are so right about how messaging can get skewed in a virtual environment. We all need to be careful about making sure we are as factual as possible in passing on information.

Hope your travels are safe back home and hope we meet sometime!

@michaelmccurry

]]> By: Maggie McGary http://www.michaelmccurry.net/2009/08/17/asae-reflections-most-valuable-tweets-140-characters-at-a-time/comment-page-1/#comment-171 Maggie McGary Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:16:15 +0000 http://www.michaelmccurry.net/?p=1203#comment-171 Thanks for including my tweet! One thing that is really striking me about this meeting is how Twitter really enhances engagement at a f2f meeting. Like Jeff De Cagna said in his session yesterday, people criticize Twitter and social media in general as being anti-social and all about being stuck online--I think the past 4 days are great proof that it's just not true. Just look at what using Twitter brought to the meetings: a way for virtual attendees to connect not only to one another but to attendees at the event; a customer service mechanism not only between ASAE and attendees/virtual attendees but hotel staff and guests; a way for both ASAE and attendees to publicize blog posts that furthered on-site learning...etc. Also, ASAE will be able to debrief from this meeting with a bunch of well thought-out blog posts from attendees detailing ideas for future meetings, ways to engage virtual attendees, etc. No way could they capture the same info with an after-the-fact survey since most people will have already gotten sucked back into their jobs and everyday lives. Nice to "meet" you--hope to meet you in person at a future ASAE event! Thanks for including my tweet!

One thing that is really striking me about this meeting is how Twitter really enhances engagement at a f2f meeting. Like Jeff De Cagna said in his session yesterday, people criticize Twitter and social media in general as being anti-social and all about being stuck online–I think the past 4 days are great proof that it’s just not true. Just look at what using Twitter brought to the meetings: a way for virtual attendees to connect not only to one another but to attendees at the event; a customer service mechanism not only between ASAE and attendees/virtual attendees but hotel staff and guests; a way for both ASAE and attendees to publicize blog posts that furthered on-site learning…etc.

Also, ASAE will be able to debrief from this meeting with a bunch of well thought-out blog posts from attendees detailing ideas for future meetings, ways to engage virtual attendees, etc. No way could they capture the same info with an after-the-fact survey since most people will have already gotten sucked back into their jobs and everyday lives.

Nice to “meet” you–hope to meet you in person at a future ASAE event!

]]> By: Anne Ornelas de Lemos http://www.michaelmccurry.net/2009/08/17/asae-reflections-most-valuable-tweets-140-characters-at-a-time/comment-page-1/#comment-170 Anne Ornelas de Lemos Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:47:45 +0000 http://www.michaelmccurry.net/?p=1203#comment-170 I found these same tweets to be very insightful and also showing how well folks can summarize points in only 140 characters. It's actually an amazing way to capture ideas, thoughts and begin asking questions based on what people are hearing. However, one thing to be wary of is how the messages might be coming through to virtual attendees, e.g., control being overrated...if one didn't participate in live audio, then tweets may be misleading. Minor, but important. I found these same tweets to be very insightful and also showing how well folks can summarize points in only 140 characters. It’s actually an amazing way to capture ideas, thoughts and begin asking questions based on what people are hearing. However, one thing to be wary of is how the messages might be coming through to virtual attendees, e.g., control being overrated…if one didn’t participate in live audio, then tweets may be misleading. Minor, but important.

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