The Twitter back channel ( #defragcon ) went nearly silent as a roomful of bright people struggled to keep up with a firehose of big ideas. Yeah, I'll be back. I mentioned earlier that I would again make the trip to Colorado for Defrag. MORE

Do you think this whole social TV, whether it’s American Idol or Super Bowl or what have you, this back channel, we’re watching it with one eye, we’re tweeting it with the other eye, is that ultimately a good thing? It got a rise out of the Twitter back channel. MORE

But any time there’s a new trend, tactic, or channel, this collaboration turns to competition. Open dialogue gives way to back-channel alliance building. Social Media has a claim because much of the content is created for social media channels. MORE

The result is the creation of a back channel process to invigorate the presentation. This post is by Chris Urena, Director of Development at CommPartners. MORE

Barbs on the "Back Channel" that don't help move the conversation along in a win-win for the audience and speaker is a clue that you want all the candy for yourself. Friday Fun is Diva Marketing's virtual happy hour from cosmos to Jack to lemonade. MORE

The customer in the back of the line has a Klout score of 75, the customer in the middle of the line has a Klout score of 17. Where I think I took my blog post today, sort of over the line a little bit, was that I likened social profiling of basically hearkening back to Jeremiah’s post. MORE

Do you think this whole social TV, whether it’s American Idol or Super Bowl or what have you, this back channel, we’re watching it with one eye, we’re tweeting it with the other eye, is that ultimately a good thing? It got a rise out of the Twitter back channel. MORE

Now for the back story. First I want to quote a paragraph from the abstract of a 2011 paper by danah boyd , a renowned expert on teen culture and social media at Microsoft Research. The paper is titled, The Drama! Teen Conflict, Gossip, and Bullying in Networked Publics. MORE

Back-channel emails are a wonderful thing. A couple of CEOs have pointed out how few of the vendors ever featured in Forrester's reports on social media analysis are still independent. So, in the spirit of the filmmaker who's not sure how to end a movie, let's roll the "where are they now?" The first report in the space was Peter Kim's Forrester Wave: Brand Monitoring (September 2006), which introduced us to seven companies: Biz360 Acquired by Attensity in 2010. MORE

Everything will be done in the open, encouraging participation, contribution, and truthfulness and discouraging passive-aggressive behavior, back channel discussions, and hidden agendas. Other channels include more traditional “Web 1.0″, MORE

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Public speakers, Cliff Atkinson has your back… channel – Book Review: “The Backchannel” (Rob Cottingham). Back by popular demand: Is Your Social Media Director Qualified? MORE

To me, the people tweeting about a show are already watching the show , so the Twitter-fueled “back channel” surrounding the show may result in additional loyalty and/or visits to the show’s website/Facebook page/SnapChat account etc., MORE

Conferences and Meetups Back in 2007, I followed the back-channel conversation at the NewComm Forum using Internet Relay Chat ( IRC ). Now, of course, the back channel is always Twitter, and it sometimes threatens to overwhelm the front channel (the person on stage). MORE