Sep
15
Twitter Redux and Email Outage
By Rich Kelly, Filed Under Attendee News, Events, Exhibitor News, Interbike
So it looks like the news about our Twitter feed for Interbike event updates and news hit the BRAIN newswire this morning. I’m curious to see the industry’s reaction and willingness to give it a try. Twitter’s got a silly name and won’t be the answer to war and hinger in the world, but I have found it to be a really easy way to stay in touch with people.
If you get enough people Twittering at an event like Interbike, you can get a really interesting view on how people spend theie time at the show and learn about stuff that’s going on that’s not necessarily on the calendars. It’s been huge at tech industry events like South By Southwest.
But, as with everything new, there are the detractors. Now, I don’t think I’m forcing this Twitter thing on anyone, am I? Heck, it’s why I chose the platform in the first place to help people stay on top of what’s going on at the show – it’s free, totally opt-in and you can turn it off anytime. Some people see this as another intrusion of technology in their lives and would prefer to tune out. I see it as another way to easily connect with and communicate with my peers in the bike industry during our biggest gathering. And beyond. I’m hoping that people will enjoy the experience and the new online community that we created will be a positive thing for industry. Who knows. Just have with and let’s see what happens. I’ll post a list of some notable bike industry Twitters to add to your list shortly.
On a totally separate note, if you’ve been trying to email anyone at IB (or anyone at our offices in San Juan Capistrano) over the weekend or this morning, don’t hold your breath for a reply. I don’t have details since I’m in Denver for our FlyFishing Retailer Expo and it’s early on Monday morning, but it appears that our email servers are down and the web servers have been spotty – possibly as a result of hurricane activity. Can’t wait till the home office opens so I can call to find out what’s up. All I can say is be patient if you’re waiting for an email from us.
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2 Responses to “Twitter Redux and Email Outage”
Hi-
We at Xtracycle will be twittering the show,as well as feeding Flickr as fast as we can upload. I’m going to be focusing on covering transportation cycling products and companies. twitter.com/xtracycle and flickr.com/photos/xtracycle
I think Twitter’s an excellent platform, and it’s a smart way to cover events like this.
Forgot one thing, I wanted propose everyone use the hashcode #interbike to keep all the interbike tweets organized.