Ulearn11 | How Twitter Makes An Event Global
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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About eight years ago I got my first Mac. A Powerbook G4 laptop. It changed my life.
This was a machine which just worked. It begged for use through its slick design and enabled the user to be creative.
Since then I have bought five other Macs (for myself and others). Several iPods. A couple of iPhones. An iPad. And countless of Mac peripheral products and add ons.
Why? Because their stuff makes sense. It just fits. The best tools for my creative needs.
The whole brand and way of doing things is down to a brilliant, selfish and focussed-on-perfection guy who wanted to put a ding in the universe.
Who enabled and vehemently challenged those he employed to forge new ideas and products for others to interact with the world.
Who knew that if you wasn’t pushing against the flow, it was taking you with it, and backwards into the ordinary.
Thank you Mr Jobs. For making amazing stuff, a kickass company and for giving us all permission to think differently:
From Apple Fanboy #1000014852
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