Playing in Alan Levine's Sandbox: Twittercamp, attendr and NECC...

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Alan Levine has a great post about how he has created and borrowed several tools for use at the upcoming NMC conference. Taking a lead from the Future of Education conference folks, he is using a web tool called attendr. This is a mash up for a (un)conference, gathering, meeting, class, party... that provides the following:

  • Map-based view of all the attendees
  • People-meeting facilitator - mark the people you'd like to meet, see who wants to meet you
  • Visualization of the attendees' connections
  • Tag-based people matchup
  • Visualize the tags on the map

It takes advantage of API's from Flickr, Technorati, Yahoo Geocoder, and Google Maps to throw together a tool that allows attendees to follow conference happenings and facilitate meeting face to face. This should be fun to play with at NECC later this month in Atlanta. I went ahead and created an attendr page for the NECC pre-conference Edubloggercon that is taking place on June 23, 2007. If you want to play along you can go to http://attendr.com/neccedubloggercon and add yourself to the list of attendees.

Alan has also customized Daniel Dura's Twittercamp for use at the NMC conference. This is something I want to see happen at NECC. As Alan points out, it is pretty easy to customize the interface of Twittercamp to match an event. I threw together a version of Twittercamp with a bit of the NECC look and feel and went ahead and registered a Twitter user called NECC. Once in Atlanta, I would love to see a large screen display hooked up where folks can point Twitter posts to @NECC and they will show up on the display. Kind of an interactive bulletin board for all those meet me at the such and such entrance messages.

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NECC will be the first opportunity for me to attend a conference and utilize tools like Twitter or Jaiku. I'm looking forward to playing around with both of them and also with attendr. To facilitate this, I went on the EduBloggerCon wiki and added a page where folks can add their Twitter or Jaiku usernames.

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