Make guidelines for conference tweeting

[KirstieJane]

This is specifically for tweets coming from the OHBM trainees account at the 2017 conference in Vancouver.

BUT - it doesn't have to be so specific. I think a little blog post (maybe in resources section) on things to consider for anyone who manages a shared twitter account would be a useful thing to create 😄

Here's my brainstorming from chatting with @teonbrooks:

WHY are you tweeting?

Have a deep thing about why you want to tweet. What are your goals? Why not just tweet from your own account?

There's no right or wrong answer here, but making sure that everyone in the team you're representing agree on why you're putting this effort in will go a huge way towards avoiding any miscommunications 🙌

If in doubt, be nice

It's probably a bad idea to critisise from a shared account (unless this is one of your goals, in which case go for it!) so I'd recommend defaulting to positive tweets.

If in doubt, you can always switch to your personal twitter account and comment more candidly there.

Use the hashtag & thread where possible

Make sure you're using the event hashtag in as many of your tweets as possible. That's a key way that others from outside of the event are going to be able to find and follow you.

Threading tweets allows tweets to be linked together, whether

Humanise the thread

This is highly related to the point above about why are your tweeting. It is easier to engage people when they feel like they're talking with a real human being. Consider adding the twitter handle of the people tweeting from the account in the bio.

If there are multiple people tweeting you could ask members of the team to signing your tweets. It might be difficult to remember to sign every tweet, so a suggestion is to focus on remembering to sign the first in a thread rather than every one of them.

Promoting work

If you're at a conference you might want to promote the people and the work that is being presented. Tagging the speaker if they're on twitter makes sense and lets people follow up with questions. You could take a picture during the talk, but make sure to check whether the speaker or conference organisers have a policy forbidding public discemination of the work presented.

[KirstieJane]

Need to turn into blog post/resource