Interestingly, the meeting organizers seemed to be embracing social media in a big way, but mostly Twitter and Facebook. There's a facebook group for the meeting, and they not only encouraged the use of a specific twitter hashtag but had a monitor in the poster hall showing the tweets with that tag in real time. (I pity the person who had to sit there hitting the refresh button all day!)
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Date: 2009-12-17 06:28 am (UTC)Interestingly, the meeting organizers seemed to be embracing social media in a big way, but mostly Twitter and Facebook. There's a facebook group for the meeting, and they not only encouraged the use of a specific twitter hashtag but had a monitor in the poster hall showing the tweets with that tag in real time. (I pity the person who had to sit there hitting the refresh button all day!)