Thanks for those sites - will be very useful to me!

Katrina

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Subject: Re: [CIG-E-FORUM] conferences and events

Some comments in line:

On 28/03/2012 13:38, Clifford, Katrina M wrote:
> I've tried both writing and tweeting at the same time (not enough hands!) and just tweeting. I can't say which is best for remembering, the main problem is finding my tweets again afterwards for when I've just tweeted only.

Tools like Storify (http://storify.com/) and CoverItLive 
(http://www.coveritlive.com/) are good for capturing and saving tweets 
to look over again later - both work well for events particularly if you 
use a consistent hashtag (a word with the hash sign in front of it, e.g. 
#CIGEforum).

> Tweeting while chairing an event (CIG shelf-ready event last December) though is really tough and not something I'd try again quickly!

That's excessively brave! :)

I'll let others comment further on the usefulness of Twitter for 
watching events that you are not attending but it's certainly something 
I've done before now and sometimes it's a brilliant way to catch up, 
sometimes it's less useful than blogs and later write ups of the same 
event.

- Nicola.

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