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Something New To Worry About During Your Talk

Nov 20, 2009

"They're tweeting behind your back," says the headline of this Chronicle of Higher Education article. And it might not be good. The tweets about a keynote speech at the HighEdWeb Association conference included: "it's awesome in the 'I don't want to turn away from the accident because I might see a severed head' way" and "we need a tshirt, 'I survived the keynote disaster of 09.'" One of the Twitterers, Michael Fienen says it's a "slippery-slope mentality," adding that "Twitter makes it very slippery and very steep." And that T-shirt was indeed made.

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