Social Tools

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Tags

We'll use tags to help find photos, blog posts and more created by conference attendees.

The universal tag is "Berkmanat10" If you like, you may also use "Berkman" (e.g. on Twitter, where character space is limited)

Question Tool

The Question Tool is used to ask questions during an event. Everyone can vote individual questions up or down and comment on existing questions, helping enhance the dialogue and letting moderators know which questions are most interesting to attendees.

IRC Channel

IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat. For Berkman@10, we'll be using IRC to create a Berkman chat channel. To join the chat, download an IRC client and join the Berkman channel at Freenode, linked below. If you use Firefox, an easy IRC client plugin is Chatzilla.

Facebook Group

The Facebook social network is open to anyone. If you're on Facebook, you can meet other conference attendees on our group event page.

Flickr

Flickr is a photo sharing website where you can upload conference pictures. Be sure to tag them Berkmanat10 so they show up to folks looking for conference pics. You can set your default tags for new uploaded pictures so you won't forget.

Twitter

Twitter has become a popular tool at conferences, because its quick & easy "microblogging" format makes it simple for folks at the same event to update each other and take notes on their impressions. It can be useful for jotting down a quote you hear and want to remember, letting your friends know what session you're in, or asking for local information. Aggregated together, the "tweets" about a conference can help form a richer picture of the event and its many conversations.

  • Use the hashtag #berkman to tag your tweets about Berkman@10 (put #berkman into your tweet, and follow @hashtags on Twitter). See the feed of everyone's hashtagged tweets at http://hashtags.org/tag/berkman/
  • Check @BerkmanCenter's following list to find Berkman affiliates and other conference attendees.

Second Life

The Berkman Center has an island in the virtual world Second Life. We'll be streaming the video webcast of the conference to the meeting space on the island. If you're participating remotely, chatting with other remote attendees' avatars in Second Life might just be the next best thing to being here in person.

Webcasts

We'll be live webcasting all our sessions on May 15, and as much as possible on May 16. If you can't be here in person, join us online. We'll also be archiving all the webcasts at MediaBerkman after the conference.

YouTube Channel

Followup

A wrap-up session has been suggested for the final unconference slot on Friday on Backchannel dynamics and mapping the conferencesphere. Stay tuned for info!