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How to Survive the Conference Backchannel
Anyone doing the conference circuit this spring will want to check out the C|Net News story How to survive the next-gen confab, which discusses the new interactive audience which has been given a voice at these events through such tools as Twitter, IM, and blogs.
“If you’re not sure what I’m talking about, consider this: Today, there are so many ways to communicate that even in a conference ballroom where there’s no Wi-Fi, many audience members likely have smartphones they can use to Twitter their impressions of whoever is speaking. Add working Wi-Fi and you’ve got a full-throated echo chamber of people who aren’t at all shy about making every last thought public.”
