I have a 'retweeter' for the week of events set up at Group Tweet. My thought is we should just use one for both events - to help information flow between them. (if people really want a different one for both we can do that but lets discuss)
So how does this work.
First get a twitter account.
Then Follow IIW6 (this is because it is the 6th Internet Identity Workshop)
Then IIW6 will follow you back
When you direct message IIW6 it will be rebroadcast out to all the other subscribers to IIW6.
To direct message you simply type "d iiw6 Kim is giving a great talk in room A"
Then IIW6 will say "via @identitywoman Kim is giving a great talk in room A" and everyone who is following IIW6 will hear it.
With this set up we can talk to each other - back channel like.
The tweets that get sent out are currently sent to public.
If you have never tweeted before I think this a great opportunity to try it.
You can just follow one account - even have it come to your phone (because the volume won't be that high) to do that you have to set device updates from IIW6 to 'on' another step after you click follow. It is very unlikely it will go over you total limit for text messaging for the month usually 150 or 200 messages on a standard plan.
Related posts:
Unconference.net
How did this experiment go (w/ or w/o the twitter outage yesterday). I can see the postings in twitter/iiw6 but I know a lot of other people incl twitter users were there that didn't post back to it.
I would also like to get clued in on the technical details of how you put this together because
the idea is worth trying in some other scenarios. Thanks!