Twittering the Virtual Worlds Conference
The Virtual Worlds Conference takes place this tuesday coming (April 21st) in Sunderland. And it’s a pretty impressive line-up of UK academic virtual world developers, the best seen at an event so far this year.
Twittering will, inevitably take place. In fact it’s already started. There are three conference tags currently being used:
#rscn09 (official)
#rscnvw09 (RSC VW event format)
#ItsGrimUpNorth (most used)
There’s also an aggregator of social media content for this event, set up by Kathryn Trinder.
Several Most of the speakers twitter. Here are ones known about; if you are speaking but not on the list get in touch and you’ll be added:
Shaun Allan
Simon Ball
Kate Boardman [Presentation]
David Burden
Anne Cunningham
Gareth Davies
Jane Edwards
Shri Footring
Ferdinand Francino
Harold Fricker
John Kirriemuir [Presentation]
Daniel Livingstone
Annabeth Robinson
Garfield Southall
Steve Thompson
Kathryn Trinder [Presentation]
Lisa Whistlecroft
And a few of the conference organisers are also using twitter:
Hope to see you in Sunderland next week!





