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Fortunately, many of the resources used at those conferences are available on-line. One I just learned of yesterday looks as if it could be particularly valuable: Managing the deluge. It's a wiki set up to help science journalists and science communicators manage the enormous amount of information that flows through Twitter and other social media outlets. I manage, but I don't manage well. I plan to stop in occasionally to pick up some pointers. If you're reading this, you will probably want to stop by too.
Hat tip: Emily Willingham (@ejwillingham)
1Or maybe I'm simply afraid to reveal how truly awful I am to the folks who attend regularly. My baggage.
Managing the Deluge seems like a valuable resource.
I have attended a number of conferences vicariously using Twitter over the past few years but the 450+ attendees of #scio12 made that impossible this past year, generating over 30,000 tweets over 2 days. MTD might make this a bit more tractable.
I hope to attend Scio13 in person.
Laurence