(Tweet Seed is part of Brrism Labs.)

Background & Issues

• How can we ensure that issues brought up in the presentation section of Brrism get discussed in the discussion section.
• How do we increase the number of outbound tweets from meeting attendees?
• How can we refer to discussion points brought up in the meeting after the meeting?

Proposed Solution

At the next Brrism meeting we’ll have a Twitter Scribe and, as issues and questions are flagged up, (s)he will tweet these with a hashtag. Then, during the unconference, we’ll have a overhead projector that will display all tweets with that hashtag (the “tweet seeds”) for everyone to see. There’s free wifi at the Brrism venue so everyone is more than welcome to do their own tweet seeding. (The Twitter Scribe is simply there for people without wifi, twitter accounts or fingers.)

After the meeting it will be easy to put a hyperlink to twitter search results for any given hashtag into post-meeting write ups (for example, blog articles).

Results and Follow Up

• The experiment partially took place at Brrism4 in that we had a TwitterScribe (Ady Harold). Everyone seemed to appreciate this (if that's not true, please comment below) and we certainly are aiming to have TwitterScribes at future events.
• The actual TweetSeed idea wasn't really put into action but that's more due to a lack of planning rather than there being an intrinsic problem with the idea. We're aiming to do a better experiment at Brrism5.