Blog Post: Tweets From the Seats

Ever since Twitter has come around, I've been telling Zach that public speakers have more pressure than ever to deliver an entertaining, insightful speech. The reason? What you say can, and will be tweeted about.

We just got back from delivering a speech entitled 'What Our Generation Wants' to 300 chief executives in DC at an ASAE conference called FBOS. I decided to search Twitter to see what, if anything, was tweeted about during our speech. This is what I found:

How about that for instant feedback on whether your speech went well? So speak wisely. And beware of asking people to put their cell phone away during the speech...they could be twittering about you.

Brett Farmiloe is the social media manager for Jobing.com.  He and Zach Hubbell also give keynote presentations from time to time about social media and www.pursuethepassion.com. Connect with Brett on Facebook, Linkedin, and Twitter.