The other day, I was surprised to receive a call from Kris Crane a journalist at the Courier Mail. He was doing an article on “jobs that were not around 10 years ago” and asked if I was available for an interview.
What I do, consulting remotely into small businesses certainly was not around 10 years ago. It is a life that I could not have imagined when I was at school or at university. We no longer need to work for huge corporations, and can instead be flexible, specialise in an area, and freelance into businesses as and when they need us.
From our discussion, Kris extracted professional tweeter, a small but interesting element of my work life. I end up attending a lot of conferences or presentation. I am a conferenceaholic (a word I made up!). I love attending conferences, the buzz, the learning’s, meeting new people, and the goodies bag. I have written about this addiction in Latte (hyperlink). I also love to tweet at conferences.
Here is a link to the article Out with the old jobs, in with the new that appeared in the Courier Mail on Saturday 18th Feb 2012. If you click here you can see a larger image Professional Tweeter
All publicity is good publicity. Thank-you Kris for the opportunity.
Lecturers at university expect students to take notes don’t they? Conferences “typically” are about sharing knowledge. People learn in different ways, some can absorb what a person says…I cannot…I never have been able to…I was the girl who took copious notes at university (and re-wrote & indexed them & distributed them to fellow students). Now I am the girl doing the same thing, except rather than a pencil & paper I use twitter… I use tweeting as a method of capturing and summarising the presentation, and sharing it with the world.
Back in 2010 Tony Hollingsworth wrote an interesting blog post about tweeting at conferences entitled; Should people “live tweet” during an event or presentation?
Is tweeting rude?
I am not texting love notes to my hubby…I am recording & distributing the event…in fact if I am in the audience and I am not tweeting your conference…then I am ill or your speaker is boring.
I will if appropriate let the speaker know I will be tweeting. Many speakers have contacted me after the event – after reading the tweets and thanked me…:)
My twitter handle @HeatherSmithAU currently has over 6200 primarily small business followers.
If you are interested in me tweeting live at your next conference please get in contact.