From the Archives: EventVue, Twitter, Kevin O’Keefe and #ACLEA
I don't have time to be writing this post right now. I should be packing up for my trip to the ACLEA (Association of Continuing Legal Education Administrators) Conference in Orlando tomorrow.
But yesterday I set our conference hashtag (#ACLEA) on the recently relaunched EventVue platform (if you're going to or interested in the conference, be sure to check it out). And this reminded me of how great Twitter can be at events, which reminded me of a post I wrote in 2008 claiming that Twitter really hits its stride at events and conferences. I can't find that post to save my life, but I did find this one, which happens to be even more relevant.
First, it's the first write-up I ever did of EventVue (a company just down the road from me in Boulder) and I highlighted its Chatter function, which is now the focus of the relaunch I just mentioned.
Second, I talked about Twitter for legal conferences and yearned for the day we might get to put it to use:
I love the new features. Focusing on legal conferences, my first thought was that this would be a ways off for me. But then this from Kevin O'Keefe. If lawyers, perhaps the latest of the late-adopting crowd, are already starting to look to twitter as a serious business tool, we might not be as far off as I thought.
Finally (and this is the kicker), I got a comment from Kevin O'Keefe on lawyers and Twitter. From Kevin:
Thanks for mentioning my take on Twitter Alli.
Though I think it’s going to take some time for a app like Twitter to make significant inroads in the legal field, I am seeing Twitter discussed more and more. Just this week at a Law Firm PR Conference in Chicago, Twitter came up on a number of occasions.
Why is all this relevant? Because Kevin will be the keynote speaker of a plenary topic on social media at the conference. And I'll be part of the follow-up panel discussing this very topic with him.
Twitter is almost nothing like it was in May 2008 when I wrote this post. Sure, the interface has changed only slightly, but its population has exploded, which has made it harder to manage and build relationships--at least for me. But its massive growth and popularity is also the reason we'll be talking about it this week and I can't complain about that.
To those heading to Orlando, I'll tweet (and see) you soon.
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