#psynom19 concluded more than a week ago, and we have already provided a snapshot of the next generation of Psychonomes. Now it is time for a brief report on some other aspects of the annual meeting, in particular an analysis of our social media presence and in particular the services rendered by our volunteers who served as Twitternomes. The Twitternomes live-tweeted selected talks during the meeting while also producing short reports of some of the talks.
Those reports were mailed out every morning during the meeting (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday) to the entire membership, so that people who could not attend the meeting were at least provided with a little bit of an echo of the conference.
The reports can now be found on the Society’s website. The site also provides a link to the video of the keynote address by Judith Kroll (name and email required to sign in).
The Psychonomic Society is grateful to the following volunteers for their services as Twitternomes in 2019:
- Kristen Bowman
- Amber Gillenwaters
- Yipei Lo
- Gia Macias
- Raunak Pillai
- Michelle Rivers
- Louisa Talipski
- Anna Wright
And here is a snapshot from the reception for the digital team at the conference:
Thank you all for your hard work. I look forward to seeing you again next year. In addition to writing reports of selected talks, the Twitternomes also used the hashtag #psynom19 to spread news of the meeting on Twitter. One of the Psychonomic Society officials, Tiffany Aurora, helped me obtain some statistical summaries using tweetbinder:
These numbers are similar to last year’s, although we have extended our potential reach by 100,000. We have potentially reached nearly a million people—of course, in reality it would have been fewer because not every follower will read any given tweet. Still, not a bad effort. In case you are wondering, the most ‘liked’ and most retweeted tweet was this one:
And here are the most active tweeters:
The full data for the #psynom19 analysis can be found here.
Thanks to all of you for contributing to the discussion!