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Friday May 25, 2007
Twitter at the Customer Engineering Conference?

I have to admit the Twitter phenomena has escaped me. I understand the draw for teens wanting to extend their texting networks, but not for educated adults. However, ETS Talk 22: Welcome to the Meta Hub  has made me reconsider. Cole discussed how Twitter has enabled him to connect with the Penn State community and vibe (my word) to a degree that's never before been possible.

The CEC is a Sun global technical training and employee networking conference. 3500 engineers from the Sales and Service organizations, as well as Sun partners, will descend on Las Vegas in October.

Wouldn't Twitter be a wonderful supplement to the CEC?  It would enable groups of like minded people to exchange relevant information in real time on things like:

  1. Hot breakout sessions, great speakers.
  2. Running into unexpected people, colleagues, luminaries, etc.
  3. Impromptu gatherings.

There could also be a primary CEC channel to communicate late breaking news, main tent event changes, and other goodies to create the buzz.

Seems like real win to me. Should the central organizing committee help facilitate the effort? Perhaps a wiki listing all the groups?


Posted at 11:42AM May 25, 2007 by Michael Briggs in Sun  |  Comments[4]

Comments:

What the heck are you talking about? What is Twitter?

What value do you think it would add to the CEC?

Posted by Jim Laurent on May 25, 2007 at 12:54 PM PDT #

Twitter From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send "updates" (text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) via SMS, instant messaging, the Twitter website, or an application such as Twitterrific. Twitter was founded in October 2006 by San Francisco start-up company Obvious Corp.

Posted by Paul Diamond on May 30, 2007 at 03:50 PM PDT #

I've been to the web site and read the FAQ (which is horrible by the way) and still don't get it. So you send a message to their secret code, where does it go? Why would anyone care where you are right now. Why would you want a bunch of garbage coming to your phone at CEC?

Sounds like a huge waste of time targetted to teen-age girls.

Posted by Jim Laurent on May 30, 2007 at 04:20 PM PDT #

I'm still not convinced of it's value for everyday use, but I do see it having potential value at CEC or other conferences, if only for folks to easily find each other in a dynamic way. I often run into folks I haven't seen and want to chat with, but it is while we are both on our way to different sessions. This would make it easier to find each other to get together when we each have more time, rather than having to block out a pre-defined time to meet. Never enough time to do that for everyone you run into. :-) Will it add value as a tool for the conference management and interaction? Maybe, if done right, but I certainly wouldn't want to be inundated with annoying updates I had no interest in.

Posted by Perley on June 27, 2007 at 12:33 PM PDT #

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