Short Attention Span Theater: The Birth of Microblogging & Micromedia
Presented by Gregarious Narain (Blue Whale Labs), Jeremiah Owyang (Forrester Research). Over the past five years, blogging has gone from "fringe geeky media channel" to mainstream usage and acceptance. While blogging itself is now commonplace, other new forms of personal publishing and lightweight communication are emerging and exploding. Join us for a deep dive into personal publishing, microblogging, and micromedia.
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I loved being able to use twitter whille learning more about it. Presenters were prepared with the business applications of microblogging and types of tools to accompany the microblogging product. reading on-screen audience tweets was fun and educational to see how it is used and the types of things people are willing to microblog about.
I loved the tweets poping up on the screen... made the session really fun. I also liked the idea that microblogging is something you just need to experience and cannot be 'explainded' : you either get it or you don't ,
This session was great. Super informative, and I loved the format with the tweets on screen.
The tweets on the screen helped guide the discussion and were also entertaining. I wish more sessions had this setup.
Very informative, but the tweets on the screen were a bit distracting and I think I missed some important discussion because I was reading (and laughing) at them. All in all, it was entertaining and informative.
loved the twitter interaction which was great fun and really excellent way to interact with most of the audience without requiring microphone time -- i wish more of the sessions had that feature. i thought the session should've been titled "the birth of twitter" since other microblogging apps/sites were given micro-attention.
"I get it, but I don't get it"- an audience comment I most identified with. It was very distracting to have the live tweets up on the screen - while funny, way too chaotic. Much more effective in other sessions where the moderator fielded the live tweets to include audience participation, but maintain coherent stream of thought.
Loved the tweets but was hoping they would cover other platforms and the next trend.
Probably the most fun session so far.
Very interactive. Plenty of humor. It was like being at the water cooler.