Lessons in life science

Today I virtually attended an unconference at the University of Leicester using Twitter and the #uollts hashtag to filter tweets.

The conference organiser, @stujohnson , displayed tweets containing this hashtag in the room using http://twitterfall.com.

I initially tried following the conference in Tweetdeck with a filter on the hashtag, but then found that Twitterfall was faster in updating, and you can also login and respond directly from the Twitterfall page.

The only improvement that I would like to see is automatic insertion of the hashtag into posts which are in reply to a post including that hashtag.  (I think I’ve seen it somewhere, but can’t remember where.)

Thanks to all attendees, real and virtual, for a very stimulating discussion. I have lots of ideas to follow up, which is the sign of a good conference.