Worth 1000 Words: Behold the Backchannel
Welcome to our weekly feature, “Worth 1000 Words,” where you can catch a glimpse of the wonder that is HighEdWeb.
#heweb09 co-chair Dan Frommelt at HighEdWeb 2008, accompanied by the infamous & awesome #heweb backchannel. (photo by opacity)
A funny thing happened on the way to “HighEdWeb 2008: Infinite Solutions”: the #heweb backchannel was born. Oh sure, it had certainly existed before, but at the 2008 conference many of us saw anew the power — and value — of conference communications tools such as Ning and Twitter. The conference Twitter feed was projected in common areas at meals and all-conference keynotes, and we were excited to be Twitter’s top trending topic for almost three days running. Heck, we even outranked the trend “#Palin,” and that was a BIG deal in the middle of the prime weeks directly preceding Election 2008!
So let’s do it again in 2009. Get a jump on the #heweb09 backchannel, if you’re not there already:
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Follow @HighEdWeb on Twitter, and use the tag #heweb09 for conference-related Tweets.
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Join the conference’s online community: http://highedweb2009.ning.com.
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Add your @name to the Twitter roll call of #heweb09 attendees.
And don’t forget to register today to join us October 4-7 in Milwaukee, WI, for HighEdWeb 2009: Open. Connected.
Colleen Brennan-Barry (@ColB) sits on the board of directors for the Higher Education Web Professionals Association, serves on the conference committee for the annual HighEdWeb conference, and is the Assistant Director of Marketing and Communications for Web Communications at Nazareth College.