#PKMChat 2015-09-30 Future of Twitter Chats

Future of Twitter Chats

We are going to explore emergent practices, trends, alternatives with examples The idea of this topic emerged from a post by Shannon Tipton a month ago: The Twitter Chat Conundrum. We had already a short chat on G+ on how to renew interest in #PKMChat. The question of the future of Twitter Chats was enlarged to others chat by Shannon and meanwhile I (Bruno) changed the topic to be more oriented toward the future. Enough of looking to the past, let’s be innovative and look forward. Many emergent practices arose around Twitter chats and divergent from it. Which emergent practice did you see, hear about? What makes a chat a Twitter chat? From where do we loose the spirit and benefits of it. What are the drawbacks of being attached to Twitter only? How to be creative with the Twitter realm. So this chat is not about #PKMChat or about any L&D chat. We are just imagining what could be done and what we would like to see or try. Let’s group think for an hour on the topic and possibly come out with new ideas. Some readings and inspiration to fuel your imagination.

The Twitter Chat Conundrum

The post from Shannon led to interesting discussion worth reading. Many #PKMChat-ters did actually participate to it. Most critics raised by Shannon are toward hosts and organizers and aimed particularly some L&D chats, practices I rarely saw on others chats and especially not on #PKMChat. Unfortunately, none of those chat hosts did participate to the comments. The second part was more on participants.

#BizHeroes and #CMWorld joined chat

In the Marketing realm, competition is open and fierce. Yet it’s fully transparent, for all to see and enjoy. This makes it possible for hosts to become guests of each others or invite guests completely outside of their branch. #BizHeroes Kelly Hungerford is specially good at it @KDHungerford.

#sBizHour Blab chat

#SbIzHour started by Rachel Lou Miller (@rachelloumiller) and Brian Fanzo( @iSocialFanz) a year ago was initially the first combinated chat Twitter and Google hangouts on air. They grew their crew to 3 with @ChristinKardos as convener, community manager, and gatekeeper.

@ChristinKardos initiates the chat

What do those 3 examples tell us? Creativity pays for sure considering the enthusiasm and excitement one could feel when attending one of such chats. We could cite also the slow chat experience of #PKMChat during this summer. PKMChat being about Personal Knowledge Management encompass Knowledge lifecycle in general. Our first chat was about learning, acquiring Knowledge. Our second is about sharing it. Week after weeks we will switch from one end of the lifecycle to another while exploring all the channels that could be used: social, formal, writing, videos. Feel free to suggest topics by tweeting to @pkmchat.

Screenshot taken during last #sBizHour, find them at http://millennialceo.com/sbizhour/