I was not being down on sending tweets from conferences. I agree it is useful to have little blits where people are or just to share a profound statement. What I am less enamored are of the atream of say 10 in a row from a session, which to me teeters on the edge of “that should have been blogged”.

And your method works extremely well as your conference session notes are incredibly valuable.

The point may be that everyone find a different way (including”none”) to share back from conferences. There are no one size fit all approaches.

The aspects of twittering at conferences that I love is the sense of being there. Reading the twits from the New Zealanders getting excited when Ewan McIntosh was getting ready to present at Ulearn was fantastic. Hearing all the fun stuff they got up to was excellent. Then Judy O’Connell asking us if we had any questions for Leigh Blackall when he presented at a conference she attended was priceless - because I manage to ask him a question remotely that directly related to what he was talking about - he was blown away. Also great when people are sitting in other rooms at the conference hearing about what is happening in the session they are in.

But I agree, quote by quote into twitter may be too much. What I like to do is if someone says something that makes me stop and ponder my thoughts then I think asking the twitter network their thoughts during the presentation is a good use - provided you keep their responses :).

Personally live blogging just is not for me. I prefer to write the notes in Google Documents or Pages and then reflect on it later. If it looks like it is going to be a really long post then I have been putting it onto my wiki - which works for me because really it is about my own personal learning going back over the material helps me retain the knowledge better and then others can choose if they do/don’t want to check it out.