Thinking About Library PR, Prior Knowledge, and Feedback at BLC09: Visible Tweets
So imagine that you’re about to lead a professional development session, staff meeting, or workshop. You want to use those minutes before the appointed hour wisely and get folks thinking about the topic to come. You want to awaken that prior knowledge as richly as possible. Oh, and you’ve got five minutes to put it all together.
Or maybe you’re doing a long workshop and you want to get some mid-workshop feedback. Have folks Tweet their observations, marking them all with a unique (and not easily replicable) hash tag (pound sign - # - followed by letters or numbers, like #blc09 or #aasl).
Type a Twitter search term (a username, a hash tag, or a keyword) into visibletweets.com, which generates beautiful randomized animations of Tweets that meet the search criteria you’ve implemented. How cool is that!
July 29th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
What’s even more fun is to use HootSuite http://old.hootsuite.com/ to pre-schedule some tweets of your own so they come up during your presentation. Saw this used once by a comedian who wanted to heckle himself during his presentation, very funny!