Online Community Unconference - today, June 18 in Mountain View

Wednesday, June 18. 2008

I'm not attending our 2008 Online Community Unconference today in Mountain View, CA, but will be tracking people's thoughts and impressions and photos from afar using Twitter and Twemes.

We've got an amazing group of some 250 people attending - from software businesses, media companies, online community businesses, foundations and nonprofits, and others. See attendee listing.

A number of folks attending will be "Twittering" from the event, or microblogging, 140 characters at a time (background about Twitter here ).

And by including in their twitter text the tag "#ocu2008", it is easy to see all the ocu2008 related posts on the aggregation service Twemes (eg http://twemes.com/ocu2008) and which also aggregates Flickr pictures and Delicious links tagged with "ocu2008".

Twitter and Twemes are some pretty powerful tools (and free) for generating impressions/content relating to an event and sharing with a mass audience in real-time.

I have to admit that my own twittering is pretty sporadic (i stuggle with whether I need another information feed coming at me? Or, should the scales fall from my eyes and I realize that Twitter is an info feed which adds value on top of all other info feeds?) But at conferences and events I find Twittering (and sharing via Twemes) to be a pretty fun and valuable way to engage with attendees and others on impressions and ideas. For example, here is the Twemes feed from our March 2008 Online Community Business Forum in Sante Fe.

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