8 Ways Twitter Can Lead to a Better Congress Experience
Leah Eustace, CFRE
Principal and Managing Partner
Good Works
Here are my top eight tips for getting the most out of your Congress experience…using twitter!
- You don’t have to be on Twitter to follow the conversation. Congress has its own hashtag (#afpcongress) and the conversation is already heating up. What’s a hashtag? It’s basically a way of labeling tweets so that they can be easily found. Starting now, add Monitter as a tab on your web browser. Type “afpcongress” in the search bar and, voila, you’re monitoring the conversation. For those twitter pros out there, you can also add #afpcongress as a separate column in Hootsuite and Tweetdeck.
- See an #afpcongress tweet that begs a question? Does someone have a point of view that you disagree with? Don’t be shy, just jump in and join the conversation.
- Make new friends: Start following folks who are active in the #afpcongress stream. Chances are that they’re also interesting outside of the Congress timeframe!
- Are there two sessions that you wish you could be at in the same time slot? Chances are that someone is tweeting the content of the one you aren’t in. You won’t miss a thing…awesome!
- Let’s face it; the volume of tweets is likely to be pretty high. Worried you’ll miss something important? Twapperkeeper will save the day. The #afpcongress tweets are archived here.
- Don’t hesitate to meet tweeps IRL (in real life). Keep an eye out for tweetups (those are IRL meetup for tweeps). They are *always* fun.
- Twitter can be a foreign language. Get in the groove by checking out what all the abbreviations mean.
- Follow the Official AFP Congress Social Media Ambassadors. We’re here to help you have a twitterific Congress experience:
- AFP Toronto – @afptoronto
- Paul Nazareth – @UinvitedU
- Emma Lewsey – @EmmaLewzey
- Ann Pathammavoing – @Pathammavong
- Jim Martin – @gingerheaddad
- Jen Love – @agentjenlove
- Clare McDowall – @MrsMcDowall
- Leah Eustace – @LeahEustace
- John Lepp – @johnlepp
- Rebecca (Flood) Dutton – @rsflood
- Ligia Pena – @lpdiversa
- Sybil Choles – @Sybil_Choles
- Paula Atfield – @Paula_Attfield
- Brock Warner – @brockwarner
- Sylvie Labrosse – @Sylvieintoronto
- Jeff Gignac – @JeffGignac
Have other ideas to share? Please leave your thoughts in the comments.
Leah will be presenting “Hands-on Social Media” at AFP Congress 2011.