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The London Conference on Cyberspace | Encouraging Youth Participation

Was humbled and honoured to be invited to speak to a group of young people who were attending The London Conference on Cyberspace and whom were getting ready to feed back their thoughts to the conference organisers and participants.

Thanks to the NSPCC who invited me, specifically Emily, and everyone behind the scenes who made it happen.

You can follow the event outcomes through their @LDNCyberYouth Twitter stream plus there’s the main @LondonCyber conference one as well.

What would you have told them?

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Ulearn11 | How Twitter Makes An Event Global

ulearn11-twitter-infographic

Above is a quick and dirty infographic created as a mini Ulearn conference evaluation (a superb educational annual event organised and run by CORE Education).

The big takeaways:

  • #Ulearn11 was trending in New Zealand the two main days of the conference
  • the massive reach the 300 active tweeterers accumulative follower network has (TweetReach indicated it at nearly 750,000 impressions and a reach of about 70,000 people)
  • how easy you can measure the ‘popular kids in the playground’ (those who tweeted and were tweeted about)

Couple this with twitter conversations not using the hashtag, the connections made through the tweeted ideas plus the retweets, then you’ve got an indication of how Twitter can enable an event to go global.

How do you measure the social media elements of your events? Do you display them graphically or in a different way than above? Drop some knowledge in the comments below.

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