“Virtually attending” a conference is increasingly popular, enabled by both official and unofficial social media and video “feeds”. We experienced this first-hand at the recent International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) annual conference. We report here on our experience and on the potential e-discovery implications.
ILTA hosted its first Virtual Exhibit Hall with roundtable discussions, and its first live streaming video interviews over ILTA TV. In addition, many individual attendees thumbed “tweets” on Blackberries, iPhones, and other smart gadgets, or shared their latest “pics” and “vids” from an inspiring keynote address, educational session, or other conference related event. Participation at a distance was easy via Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and video feeds, including a complete video walk-through of the exhibit hall posted on YouTube by “Twitterer” Ed Valio, who also put together a nice picture album of the event.
Most of the online traffic reported presentation highlights. By many accounts, knowledge management expert and Above and Beyond KM blogger V Mary Abraham provided the best real time Twitter feed at @VMaryAbraham. Others chose the more “traditional” blogging route; for example, Integreon’s Ron Friedmann posted some detailed reports at session-end: e.g., Technologies that Will Disrupt Traditional Legal Practice (ILTA 2009). Some online traffic, however, was more “local”: Monica Bay of Law Technology News, for example, Tweeted that “everything Babs sez about the nachos is true,” commenting on advice from Integreon’s Babs Deacon. For transcripts of all the Twitter traffic that either mentioned “ILTA” or “ILTA09″, you can take a look at JD Supra’s Law Practice News Facebook page, which aggregated such Tweets on a daily basis during the conference.
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Source: Integreon Blog
By: Ron Friedmann and Eric Feistel
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