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Lucian Ghinda
Lucian Ghinda

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Post live updates from conferences

I am not at Rails World, and I have huge FOMO at home. I look at almost all the people going there and already have a great time even before the conference starts. 

Enjoy the conference and make some new friends!

With this occasion, I'd like to invite you all to share/post online what you are learning during the conference.  It would be good for the community to post live updates on social media during all conferences. 

Here’s the structure of a good social media post:

  1. Take a screenshot of a slide, ensuring the speaker is included.
  2. Highlight the most important idea the speaker mentioned
  3. Add your own thoughts about it.
  4. Publish the post, then reply with the next interesting point from the presentation.

In case you want to see some examples, I did something like this from my own account during EuRuKo (see a list of posts here) and did the same from the Friendlyrb account on Twitter and Mastodon during Friendly.rb conference

I got very good feedback about doing this kind of live posting. 

I know that usually all videos and slides are posted online, but creating a buzz during the conference and sharing the ideas that YOU find interesting is also a significant contribution. 

It helps show how active our community is and how many ideas are shared. 

Later on, the series of posts you shared could be transformed into a blog post about how it was at that conference, and in the process, you will get the side effect of doing a recap of what you learned from that experience. 

Happy #RailsWorld!

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