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@perkinsy’s Top 10 Conference Tweeting Tips

23/07/2017 by Yvonne Perkins Leave a Comment

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Twitter is a great medium to use during a conference. Participants can share news from the conference to people who are unable to attend. It is another way of publicising great work by the presenters and showing the world that your professional community is contributing valuable work to society. At its best Twitter conference streams can put you in touch with the latest and … [Read more...] about @perkinsy’s Top 10 Conference Tweeting Tips

Australian History Conference Generates Record Twitter Stream

14/07/2017 by Yvonne Perkins 7 Comments

The Twitter stream from the 2017 annual Australian Historical Association conference at the University of Newcastle last week broke the records. The conference’s #OzHA2017 Twitter stream had more tweets and more participants than in the previous five years. During the five days of this year’s conference at the University of Newcastle sent over four thousand tweets. This online … [Read more...] about Australian History Conference Generates Record Twitter Stream

Blogging the 2016 Australian Historical Association Conference

17/07/2016 by Yvonne Perkins 2 Comments

Social media has transformed conferences. No longer are conferences a private experience which might be shared months or years later when some papers are published. Live reporting of conferences on Twitter has gone a long way to enlarging the audience of a conference to interested people around the world. Where conference attendees are particularly engaged on Twitter the … [Read more...] about Blogging the 2016 Australian Historical Association Conference

Tweeting the 2016 Australian Historical Association Conference

14/07/2016 by Yvonne Perkins Leave a Comment

Last week there was a flurry of Australian history tweeting emanating from Ballarat in Victoria. The 2016 annual conference of the Australian Historical Association was held in the old gold city and over three hundred presenters from universities, galleries, libraries, archives, museums and small businesses talked all things history. I have attended the last four conferences, … [Read more...] about Tweeting the 2016 Australian Historical Association Conference

The Loud Sounds of Many Fingers Typing

14/08/2015 by Yvonne Perkins 7 Comments

This series of posts has largely celebrated the tweeting of this year’s Australian Historical Association Conference. Overall we did well at sharing the news of the conference online. But while we should celebrate our achievements, we should at the same time keep a sense of proportion on all this. Twitter is not everything and neither is social media. The vast majority of … [Read more...] about The Loud Sounds of Many Fingers Typing

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Yvonne Perkins is a professional historian and launched Stumbling Through the Past in August 2010. Focusing on history, and Australian history in particular, posts include interviews, book reviews, news reports on conferences and reflective pieces.

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