Comments on: Reviewing Tweetnotes from The Extraordinaries

By: Amy Sample Ward

Amy Sample Ward — Mon, 24 May 2010 08:09:48 +0000

Hi Debra-

So great to hear your voice on this as someone new to using Tweetnotes and a collaborator at NTC. It’s good to hear some of my experiences echoed by you, whether that means I’m not crazy or not… 🙂

As another note about signing in to vote, in response to Jessica’s note about creating all of the dashboards ahead of time – I found that for sessions that were set up by Ben at The Extraordinaries, I was never able to log in and vote. But that could have been an issue with juggling multiple account log ins (mine and the admin one he gave me access to).

I really appreciate your point about using the dashboards post-session to find everything in one easy place. I also encouraged people in the sessions to continue using the hashtag and visiting the dashboard to find resources and so on.

Thanks again for sharing here!

By: Amy Sample Ward

Amy Sample Ward — Mon, 24 May 2010 08:02:37 +0000

In reply to Jessica Kirkwood.

Thanks for adding your experience here, Jessica!

Obviously, for a big conference like NCVS it can be really helpful for Ben or others to set up all the dashboards ahead of time. But, anyone can set one up (I don’t want people to think they can’t!). And, at least in my experience at 10NTC, it was easier when we set them up ourselves for a couple key reasons:

1. we had the admin on the account so could add things to the resources and speaker notes sections
2. we often wanted to use a different hashtag than the one already assigned by the conference

Really looking forward to hearing how speakers and participants at NCVS find the tool!

By: Debra Askanase

Debra Askanase — Sun, 23 May 2010 20:32:07 +0000

Hi Amy-
I was one of your collaborators at the NTC session on Online Campaigning. That was the first time I’d heard of The Extraordinairies, and I loved it, in concept. It worked really well to capture all the related content for the session in one place (the slideshare presentation, links to sites, tweets, etc) but I echo your frustration with the slow refreshing of tweets. If this is supposed to be a client that utilizes twitter to aid conversation during a session, it was too slow to do that (I remember waiting at least 20 minutes for some tweets to show up) and the registering to vote for tweets was a huge barrier to full participation by session attendees.
I also remember thinking that it didn’t actually capture all the hashtags, and ability to capture multiple hashtags (misspellings of hashtags included!) would be a real added value.

But mostly, thank you for exposing me to a really interesting reseource. It’s not yet at the point of being extremely valuable as a real-time conversation aide, but instead is an extremely valuable pre- and post-session aide.

By: Jessica Kirkwood

Jessica Kirkwood — Sun, 23 May 2010 17:57:28 +0000

I have to give The Extraordinaries a huge shout out for Tweet Notes. Ben Rigby created Tweet Notes to capture the session notes from our LEAD Summit during National Volunteer Week and it was very helpful – particularly in a way you wouldn’t expect… It helped me show (rather than tell) people within my organization a way that Twitter can be useful. Having Tweet Notes enabled did wonders for staff who weren’t very familiar with social media. The rich transcripts created for each session were of value to them and helped me gain support for social media efforts.

I’m excited because Ben is also setting up Tweet Notes for our upcoming conference in New York. The National Conference on Volunteering and Service has something like 177 sessions – so I’m really indebted to The Extraordinaries (who are, in fact, extraordinary!) and I’m looking forward to being able to provide this service/set of notes for all the conference participants.

By: just_kate

just_kate — Sun, 23 May 2010 13:19:03 +0000

In reply to amyrsward.

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By: amyrsward

amyrsward — Sun, 23 May 2010 13:12:59 +0000

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