SMAANZ 2012 – Twitter summary

Here’s an archive of the tweets from the Sport Management Australia and New Zealand (SMAANZ) Conference at University Technology Sydney, 28-30 November 2012.

This is the second year that there has been a groundswell of Tweeps attending – adding another channel to the conversation. The tweets started the conversation before the conference and is continuing it afterwards, with some presenters uploading presentations. A notable mention to Olan Scott, for uploading his prior to the conference.

You can read the full Tweetreach report here.I’ve done a quick analysis (read VERY quick) of the tweets and here’s a summary. These include the RTs

Promoting overall conference – 24
Promoting individual speaker – 25
Tweet of a presentation – 17
Asides/personal – 14
Instragram – 2
Foursquare checkin – 1

So where to from here?

Next year, I’ll be trying (again) to UStream my presentations. I’d also like to try some smart phone “clickers” in a presentation and also an interactive Twitter feed.

It would also be great to have a screen of the Tweets in the breakout rooms to further stimulate conversation.

Even though there isn’t the same need for hashtags, it’d be good to go with a common one. My preference is #SMAANZ – given the short life of tweets, we don’t need to differentiate between years. Then that we can have four extra characters.