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Live Tweeting: The Secret to Unintentionally Help And Learn
By Ramkarthik | October 17, 2009
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Should you live tweet that conference/event?
First, what is live tweeting? (scroll to the next sub-heading if you know this)
It is tweeting something that is going on live. You normally have a #hashtag for every live event. For example, the Izea event which took place few days back used #Izeafest as hashtag. People use hashtag to make it easy for others to follow the tweets about a particular event.
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Benefits Of Live Tweeting
What? Can you get extra benefits by posting live tweet? Yes, you can.
1. New And Strong Twitter Relationships
Twitter is all about relationship, conversation and did I mention promotion? Now, the last one should be done carefully and within limits. Anyway, you’d be knowing that by now.
Normally you tweet about conferences live. When you do that you will be following other tweets about the conference using the hashtag assigned for that particular event. So you have a chance to find new people and form a good relationship with them.
If you are in the conference, you can talk to them directly. But if you are not in the conference and watching it in a live stream, you cannot do it. What you can do is, tweet those who are tweeting about the conference and talk to them about it first. Second , take the conversation to the next step. Don’t flood your twitter timeline with many @ messages. Send them in DM or chat in skype or whatever you like.
People who attend conferences are often those who are serious about business and willing to invest time and money to improve themselves and take their business to the next level. Forming relationship with these people is the best thing you can do in twitter.
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2. Learn
Every event has some of the industry’s experts in their list of speakers. These experts know what they do and clearly know what works. When they say it out for you in a conference, listen to them and learn. I hear you. You go to conference only to learn and form new relationship. But wait, according to a Edgar Dale:
10% of what we read
20% of what we hear
30% of what we see
50% of what we see and hear
70% of what we discuss with others
80% of what we personally experience
95% or what we teach others
So why not hear it in conference, write it down as a tweet, favorite the ones that are really good and read it, discuss with others and teach them? It takes 21 days according to a research to save anything to your subconscious mind. Is it not easy to read the best tips that you have saved in your favorites everyday for 21 days till it gets installed in your subconscious mind?
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3. Help Your Followers
There will be many people in your followers list who want to take their blog/business to next level. How about helping your followers with what you learn from the conference?
People might have missed the conference due to some reason. Some would have missed it because they are in a different part of a world. Some of them cannot watch it in livestream because of slow internet connection/dialup. They all have one thing in common? The eagerness to learn.
By tweeting the important points of a event, you are helping your followers. Believe me on this. I have trusted few people in twitter who I follow because they teach me something new. It is a fact. You trust people who help you.
Let me remind you that you can even tweet about live games. I have live tweeted about football (Soccer if you are from USA). You don’t educate your followers in this case but you keep them up-to-date with live scores.
Note: It is better to keep your tweets within limits. Don’t tweet a lot about anything within a short period.
So when you live tweet, you not only learn and move your business forward, you also help your followers. Is there a much better way of using twitter? I’ll let you decide.
Please share your views on live tweeting, be it positive or negative. I’d like to hear your opinion on this. I’ll write a follow up post and include the best comments. You can add me on twitter here- @Ramkarthik.
Topics: twitter | 3 Comments »
October 18th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
Live tweets is a great way to discuss the on-going presentations and get comments from attendees. These days most tech events have live tweeting and it helps others to follow the event even without being there.
October 18th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
[...] I missed out last WordCamp India, but I had a feeling of being right there, at the event, by following #wci on twitter. Thanks to the amazing Live Tweets. [...]
October 24th, 2009 at 4:22 am
Arun,
Agree with you. The idea of learning everything from a conference without being there is really huge.
Thanks for the comment.