A while ago a Twitter project from another conference was tweeted by Mark Oehlert about a compilation of all the tweets that came out from conference attendees in to one digital book. The conference had well over 4000 tweets posted during it’s run. Thinking this was a really intriguing idea and an incredible challenge I contacted Brent Schlenker at the eLearning Guild and began discussing a similar project be launched for the upcoming DevLearn conference in San Jose.
After several emails and phone calls about the best method to collect possibly that many tweets and more we devised a system that we hope will help to group the tweets once they come out into categories for posting them to the collective book. Once the conference is finished the hope is that the book will contain a complete collection of tweets broken into “overall conference” postings and “individual session” postings. It will then be made available to members of the eLearning Guild as a digital book.
If you will be attending this year’s conference I hope you will be tweeting all the best bits of “What’s What” and “Who’s Who” for those of us that are unable to attend. Also, if you can remember the hashtag system we’ve created to assist in grouping the tweets into more significant chunks of infomation it will help those that wish to read postings about specific topics within the conference much more efficiently.
- For the OVERALL CONFERENCE (example: keynotes, expo, masterclasses, breakfast bytes, demofest, evening gatherings, etc.) – use #DL09
- For INDIVIDUAL SESSIONS (example: concurrent sessions (Session 209 “Five Easy Steps to Create e-Manuals for the iPhone and iPod“), and Certificate Programs (P1 “Designing Scenario-based e-Learning “) – use #DL09-SESSION NUMBER (ie: #DL09-209 or #DL09-P1)
Looking forward to seeing some great coverage from the tweeters at DevLearn.
Not attending and want to follow all the action. Use your Twitter search tool of choice and search for DL09 (no hashtag #) to see all tweets (including user DL09) or filter by searching for #DL09 or #DL09-session number (for a specific session).
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From what I’ve read so far, hyphens in hashtags won’t work for multi-word (i.e. #dl09-501) and keep same functionality. Only the dl09 will be captured, clickable, etc.
I tried +, but didn’t work either. Maybe #dl09s501?
lol, link HTML tags not working?
Love you, Blogger…
Here’s the comment…
I understand it comes up in search, but it doesn’t auto-link to the full hashtag with hyphens. Underscores do work.
Example: http://img.skitch.com/20091104-ria75cihccmcec9k66qniq1fkd.jpg
If you do a search in Tweetdeck, twhirl, hootsuite, tweetchat, tweetgrid all recognize the “-” in a search, ie #dl09-214
Oh Brian:….I see what you are saying. Yes that makes sense. My appologies for that. We’ve been posting out the “-” to be used for some time now so I’ll guess we’ll need to stick with that for now. I also have some tools set up already to track the tags. I’ll remember to make the change next time should we do this again. It was a big experiment to see how well it will work, especially with so many sessions.