I am neither social media savvy nor inclined, but I have to admit that it has been fun following along on Twitter. #wishIwasthere.
Of course there is a hashtag #iwishiwasthere but not much to do with this conference!
If you want to get a fuller (25% rather than sub-10%) view of conference
numismatics then in addition to my feed, the following are most comprehensive, both from the British Museum.
https://twitter.com/amelia_dowlerhttps://twitter.com/MoneymedalsnetIf we were to divide the conference into four areas: Greek;
Roman; General including archaeology databases museums etc; and later coinage, then I'm probably grabbing one third of the
Roman, Amelia one third of the Greek, and Money/Medals one third of the general. So whilst our tweets aren't overlapping much, they
still amount at best to perhaps a quarter of the overall content in aggregate.
An
ANS feed has some interesting views on the more social
side of events
https://twitter.com/adreinhardThe 140 degree vodka views aren't a direction I'm going in partly because the conference is giving me regular opportunities for confidential consultations on numismatic politics and gossip (yes, there's a great deal) which would be inevitably compromised were I to broadcast with whom I was dining/drinking with at any given time! But as a sample taster, on Thursday there'll be a small social event involving
Woytek,
Burnett,
Stannard,
Ripolles,
Hollstein, Suspene, Parisot and Buttrey, all
Roman Republican denizens. That specific gathering is to an extent an homage to past events hosted by RBW, who will not be forgotten, but similar gatherings, small, large and huge, are taking place every day.
Still I guess the fact that I'm messaging here at 2am says something even if you don't know what proof vodka I'm drinking...
2015 International Numismatic Congress commentaryhttps://twitter.com/AMcCabeCoins/tweets/Incidentally I'd say that those who are tweeting would rate the social-media-savviness of numismatists not so high. Perhaps 2/10. At conferences on other topics you'd expect a tidal wave of twitter and instagram feeds involving a significant proportion of total attendees. Here perhaps just 10 out of 1000 in Taormina have active social media fee
