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Twitter Best in Events and Emergencies

Net-Savvy Executive

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).

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Social Media is the Back Channel for Teen Angst

Direct Marketing Observations

There are conversations we don’t see that sit behind social chat apps like Kik, WhatsApp and WeChat and Ask.fm that are 10 times worse than the conversations that we see or hear about. Maybe then the question for parents isn’t so much how do you stop it, as much it might be how can you learn how to listen to the conversation?

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Friday Fun: Top 13 Reasons to Halloween "Toilet Paper" A Social Media Strategy

Diva Marketing Blog

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. No @s in your Tweet stream is a sign that you 1. have few friends to play with or 2. don't know how to share treats with others.

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Who Owns Social Media? Everyone and No One | Social Media Strategery

Social Media Strategery

Everything will be done in the open, encouraging participation, contribution, and truthfulness and discouraging passive-aggressive behavior, back channel discussions, and hidden agendas. Thanks so much for your thoughtful contribution to the conversation. Thanks so much for your thoughtful contribution to the conversation.

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Social Pros Podcast – Scott Monty, Ford Motor Company

Convince & Convert

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. Jay: A for effort. Scott: Absolutely.

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Social Pros Podcast – Scott Monty, Ford Motor Company

Convince & Convert

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. Jay: A for effort. Scott: Absolutely.

Company 112