TweetChat is a unique approach to hashtag searches and conversations. After using oAuth to log in, you search for or select a hashtag to view the current tweets around. This puts you into a channel with only information about that hashtag showing up.
This is important to pull yourself out of the river of Twitter and into a nice bubbling brook (for lack of a better water example). You can pause (called SmartPausing in their system) the conversation and even block spammers from showing. This allows you to focus and communicate through tweets with everyone around the topic.
After logging in, I saw my Twitter background overlayed with their UI asking what hashtag to search for. I chose to check in on one of two conferences going on while writing this. @Corvida is at Blogalicious09 and UKLUG just finished. I was able to reply, retweet, favorite and see user controls for each result. I could also change rooms in the upper right to a new hashtag.
This site is incredibly useful for working with everything around an event. The upper (slighty obscure) settings allowed me to pause, refresh speed, font controls, share link and more user controls.
Whoa, last second item. If there is too much traffic you could slow it down or pause, but a great user control feature I found was the ability to feature users. I didn’t find a description of this feature, but that is a great!! Toggling the font made it smaller to show more lines. Refresh speed allowed every 5 to 60 seconds.
I wish they could bring in picture popup and showing where links go, but otherwise I liked the site.
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About IdoNotes
Professional bio:
Chris Miller, known as IdoNotes across the web is based in
St Louis,
MO as the Director of Messaging & Collaboration for Connectria and the Founder of Spiked Studio Productions.. Connectria is one of the largest IBM hosting and remote management partners. Chris speaks globally at conferences and events including:
View Admin 2003-2009
View Admin Europe 2003-2008
Domino 7 Upgrade Seminar (globally)
Domino 8 Upgrade Seminar (globally)
Real-Time Collaboration Seminar
Lotusphere 2003-2012
ILUG 2008, 2010
ULUG 2009, 2011
Collaboration University 2006-2010Domino Optimization Tour 2010
BLUG 2011, 2012
NLLUG 2010
AusLUG 2011, 2012
Other awards, events and information:
Founder of
IamLUG - the North American Lotus User Group event held annually. 2009-present
Chris, via
Connectria, is a Lotus Award winner 3 times and a finalist 5 times since 2000.
Winner of the Gary Guthrie Award for Technical Writing in 2002
Previous board member of the
St Louis Domino and Notes User Group
Previous board member of VALU (the predecessor to LotusUserGroup)
Advisory Board member to LotusUserGroup.org
Chris is the founder of
Spiked Studio Productions which produces industry related podcasts, webcasts and more. Shows include:
IdoNotes - one of the longest running Lotus related technical podcasts
BlackBerry Today - a video podcast on the hottest device, application and BlackBerry/Playbook news
Consultant In Your Pocket - deep technical webcast training delivered free and subscription
IdoSphere - a two day online technical event
TheSocialGeeks - a leading social media roundtable podcast
Sametime Guide - a video training tutorial on installing and administrating IBM Sametime
TheSocialNetworker - a social media site review webcast and interview series now including Social Stalking content on social media security and privacy
Certifications:
PCLP since Domino R4 in administration and in Development through R5
Workplace Collaboration Services 2.5 - Team Collab and Messaging
Domino 7 and 8 Certified Security Administrator
Sametime Administration 7.5.x-8.5
CLP Collaboration (retired certification Aug 2006)
CLI for numerous administration areas including Domino, Sametime, Quickr and Connections
Yes I write some of those dreaded admin cert exams you take.
I won't say which ones so you don't come looking for me, but I will
say they are the real good recent ones that have been coming out.
Animals:
One dog, a Puggle. He has been on this world before and seems to understand slippers and a fine cigar. Mind you that is him in the chair and not me.
A ninja death cat. I only see her when she strikes
Music:
Non-stop. At my desk, in my car, walking to work and back to my car downtown. In the house there is a crazy zoned set-up for you home automation geeks.
I am a self-proclaimed MP3 fiend, to which I have tried rehab 4 billion times to no avail. Now what kind of music you ask? I will never tell.
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