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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). Media reports.

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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?