This document discusses using social media and networking applications to enhance conferences and presentations. It describes using a backchannel on Twitter through hashtags to allow live discussion among attendees and non-attendees, integrating applications like Donahue to supplement presentations, and crowdsourcing the audience to help develop and promote events through tools like Google Forms.
6. The Backchannel Live chat during presentation or workshop (normally through twitter) Presenter twitter key pointsEngage audienceSupplement Q&AOpen conversation to people not in attendanceCreated through hash-tagging each presentation or workshop