At this MVP Summit like the one in 2008 social networks are being used for real time communication, so to find the best sessions or get feedback from sessions that you couldn’t attend.
Yet Twitter could be a horrible tool for companies trying to keep the news from being released to the world prematurely.
As much as Twitter is fun, is pretty dangerous and the rules are clear, do not take pictures of slides, do not release anything under NDA to blogs or twitter. The man power to monitor all those social networks must be pretty impressive as much as necessary to insure the knowledge to stay bottle up until release day. And we all have witness monitoring of the social networks all day.
Big brother watching that nothing is being released.
Social networks being around for a while now, just more than just geeks started using them on their normal life, in such a way, those technologies have found their place in the day to day. I was personally very against those kind of technology, I already carry a phone with me for people to find me. Now I see the housewives, in the freeway, using text messaging and facebook to share their kids pictures with their friends and family.
On the MVP Summit 2009 today some really funny tweets come out from the Summit.
Funny tweets
On the key notes look at the “subtitles”
Mary-Jo Foley wrote on her blog:
Microsoft officials are really trying to crack down on MVPs who are flouting their NDAs (non-disclosure agreements) this year. The 10 best tweets (so far) from Microsoft's MVP Summit
To learn more about Twitter, there is a great post from Scott Hanselman how to use Twitter in a Conference.
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Al