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Clint Cavanaugh introduces the Twitterati to the WBUR studios during the fourth social media event, originally uploaded by WBUR.
Last evening’s social media event drew our largest crowd to date. I guesstimate about 30+ people passed through our doors. Thank you to all who braved traffic-clogged Commonwealth Avenue and those insufferable stuffed-to-busting Green Line trains. I hope you found the event justified the hassle. And I was glad to see about 12 folks at the post-session eat-and-drink. The Sunset owes me a commission. 😉
I am especially grateful to John Carroll, Adam Zand, and Dan Kennedy, all of whom helped facilitate the discussion sessions. I couldn’t be in both places at once, so sadly I missed Kennedy’s session, but I was told afterward that he helmed an engaging discussion about news strategies in a digital world. And in the session I attended, “Hype 2.0,” John and Adam did a capital job keeping the conversation snappy and provocative. John gave a salutatory antidote to the excessive cheerleading (yes, I get it, Twitter is great … it’s really, really great … *Yawn*) all too common at social media events, and Adam proved himself effective at tying together seemingly disparate threads and redirecting the conversation. All together a good mix.
I am curious to learn what you thought. How did you find the sessions?
Special thanks to the incomparable Clint Cavanaugh, who conjured these emptied after-hours warrens to life during her exuberant station tour. You could almost hear the busy fingers at the keyboards, the studio sound-checks, frenzied footfalls through hallways as news breaks….
Our next event is this month. If you have a topic suggestion or would be willing to speak or moderate a conversation, please let me know. Where is this all leading? I don’t know, but the journey has been a helluva lot of fun so far.
Thank you for participating.
And Boo!
It was overall very interesting, and fun meeting people who I previously associated only with their Twitter names.
Kinda weird to hear an Utterli recording of an event that was still in my short-term memory, with my voice on it. I guess turnaround on that is only going to get faster!
That Adam Zand, he is a compulsive documentarian and fortunate for us at the station, a shameless WBUR-promoter!
Weird indeed and I anticipate things only to get even weirder. Am waiting for Steve Garfield to do some real-time video streaming of one of our socials.
And thanks Nicolas for joining us. Your avatar suggests an unfortunate accident. Glad to see this was not the case.
Hope to see you again here at the station or at other social media events!
It’s Clint’s birthday today, so this is my blatant appeal for WBUR to host another TweetUp and for Ken George to come back and visit 😉