Got to love this tip from the NYT – you can attend conferences virtually, via Twitter:
Most conferences these days have a Twitter hashtag. At the exclusive TED conference in Long Beach in February, for example, attendees added #TED to the end of their posts.
By searching #TED on Twitter, people could read the latest updates (and skip the $6,000 attendance fee). People wrote quotes from the speakers, like this one: “ ‘If I only had only one wish for the next 50 years, it’d be to invent the thing that halves the cost of CO2’ — Bill Gates #TED.” link.