Crafting a set of tweets for the main points of your presentation and then tweeting them as you make those points in your live presentation is a great way to be part of the Twitter conversation. Keynote Tweet allows you put your tweet wrapped in [twitter] tags in the presenter notes pane for that slide and when you click onto that slide, the tweet gets published. For the moment Presenting while people are tweeting is challenging – but also adds a new dimension to the presentation experience for your audience. Gradually tools are being developed to make it easier for you as the

In my post 10 tools for presenting with Twitter , I lamented that there was no easy-to-use way of posting tweets from within PowerPoint. Go to Timo’s PowerPoint Twitter page to download the add-in. Type [twitter] before your tweet and [/twitter] after your tweet. Timo Elliott of SAPWeb2.0 has now created an add-in for PowerPoint 2004 and 2007 which does just that.

Presenting with Twitter can be challenging. Just about every week a new story of a speaker getting roasted on Twitter makes waves in the blogosphere. I’ve written a free eBook “How to present with Twitter (and other backchannels)” to help you avoid that fate. 8220;Don’t get caught without Olivia Mitchell’s just-in-time guide to There’s no sign up required. Just click and read.

Twitter is now a reality at many conferences. Now the question is: should you display a live twitter stream on a large screen so that everyone (not just the tweeters) in the audience can see it? Having twitter on a large screen can enrich the conference experience. So when the conference delegates arrived at Sir Ken Robinson speaking at "Hacking Education" organised by Union Square Ventures. Photo used with permission from Fred Wilson

This is primarily done in the communications medium of face-to-face and not in text - until Twitter . Twitter is powerful enough to use right now, but will become even more of a relationship builder as people use the 'group' function. That means you can talk to the world, but gather people in your community (or in Seth Godin's view ' Tribes ') of interests to dialogue and influence. Last weekend we had our great annual conference of Speakers Roundtable , (my Master You build relationships through spontaneous, casual, open and 'dialogue' communications. There was lots of interest

Much ado over a Twittering Congress. Last week during the President's address to the joint session of Congress, some members Twittered through the speech . Traditional presenters bristled with comments like: "if someone is Twittering during a presentation, it means that the speaker is not keeping their interest and attention. People have been making color commentary Almost immediately, two basic attitude camps sprang up among pundits: 1. How dare they!

Exploding - the word for Twitter, and Social Media for that matter. There's a lot of misunderstanding about Twitter, and particularly about getting started, so this post is JUST about that - and will be a little texty. Timely though, since I'm about to speak to a major Association's Management Team on finding "The Melody In Noise," and have found most do not know the Twitter basics - I want to point them here. (If If you know the basics, go to this post on the Why and How of Twitter. )   Twitter Twitter is useful and a good ROI on your time if you don’t

Note: This post was updated on 30 October to reflect TodaysMeet introducing Twitter integration. However, if you plan to use a backchannel proactively in your presentation, it may be better to use a backchannel tool other than Twitter. Twitter users won’t have to be concerned about overwhelming their followers with a series of presentation-specific tweets. The advent of the backchannel is a tremendous opportunity for presenters. The backchannel is an online conversation that takes place at the same time as people are talking live.

Only 41 people responded to the survey (the url for the survey was circulated using twitter and the conference hashtag). The purpose of the survey was to “understand the motivational aspects of the use of Twitter during conferences.” In summary, ‘ sharing resources’ and ‘communicating with others’ were the most important uses of twitter for these respondents. Wow. Some academics have written a paper about tweeting at conferences (thank you @tonyramos for tweeting about it).

The latest academic research on Twitter and conferences addresses the issue of “snarky tweets” during presentations. My own experience of tweeting during presentations at Presentation Camp LA highlighted for me the new challenges we face around Twitter etiquette at conferences. Tony McNeil reports on a survey of 103 people from a conference on learning technology in April 2009: More than just passing notes in class? What should be the guidelines of what is acceptable and what is not? The research