http://www.contentious.com/2009/10/14/experiment-great-live-event-coverage-for-hire-what-do-you-think/ Amy Gahran's news and musings on how we communicate in the online age. Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:38:23 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.contentious.com/2009/10/14/experiment-great-live-event-coverage-for-hire-what-do-you-think/comment-page-1/#comment-1229461   Twitter @ replies & how I’m changing my live event coverage — contentious.com Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:51:03 +0000 http://www.contentious.com/?p=2899#comment-1229461 [...] Whenever I’m at an event (such as a conference, talk, or arts event) that I think might also interest some of my Twitter followers, I tend to “live tweet” it — posting frequent updates about what’s being said, what I’m seeing, reactions to what’s happening, etc. I do this so much, and have gotten pretty good at it, that I have attracted many Twitter followers because of it. So I’ve decided to explore offering live event coverage as a professional service. [...] [...] Whenever I’m at an event (such as a conference, talk, or arts event) that I think might also interest some of my Twitter followers, I tend to “live tweet” it — posting frequent updates about what’s being said, what I’m seeing, reactions to what’s happening, etc. I do this so much, and have gotten pretty good at it, that I have attracted many Twitter followers because of it. So I’ve decided to explore offering live event coverage as a professional service. [...]

]]> http://www.contentious.com/2009/10/14/experiment-great-live-event-coverage-for-hire-what-do-you-think/comment-page-1/#comment-1229240 Sally Falkow Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:52:00 +0000 http://www.contentious.com/?p=2899#comment-1229240 Great idea Amy. Good quality coverage is hard to find. And we can't all go to all events. I think it is a valuable service. I hope events will consider doing this and not just rely getting free coverage. Great idea Amy. Good quality coverage is hard to find. And we can’t all go to all events. I think it is a valuable service. I hope events will consider doing this and not just rely getting free coverage.

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