Conferences on Twitter

I know. You’re already counting down the days until the Twitter wave starts to crash. Well get comfy, it’s gonna be a while.

Each day new Twitter apps appear that seem to apply the micro-blogging formats to all sorts of daily chores and tasks. For all of your corporate cogs out there, I’m willing to bet that over the past year you have participated in a Webinar. You know the drill – live meetings and/or presentations are held via the Internet.

ParaTweet, powered by Adobe AIR, allows organizations to harness the power of Twitter for any conference, concert, barcamp, nightclub, or church.

For approximately $299 a month you can add live moderation, auto-filtering and the ability to handle one event at a time.

The way it works is that two screens are on display, one showing the ParaTweet app and the other showing the moderation pane.

Participants can ask questions by posting a query that includes a predetermined #hashtag. (For example, #rotorblog)

ParaTweet is ideal for question and answer sessions. It also has a neat secondary function which is to allow attendees to communicate after a conference or session is over.

The site has been live since late April. It will be interesting to see how many organizations/individuals are willing to invest a few hundred dollars on a Twitter app – no matter how useful it may or may not be.

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