By George Williams, Chronicle of Higher Ed
Recently the annual meeting of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) took place in Washington D.C. I’ve been a member of SHARP since I attended the 2001 meeting, and I’ve always found the conference–as well as the SHARP journal Book History–to be extremely rewarding. This year, Twitter was a powerful presence at the conference, in part because the organization was officially encouraging conference-goers to use the medium for backchannel discussion. SHARP’s president, Leslie Howsham (@lesliehowsham), and vice president, Ian Gadd (@iangadd), are both on Twitter. And it seemed to me that a critical mass of SHARP attendees were already Twitter users. Furthermore, I noticed a number of Twitter users who were not even attending the conference engaging in the #sharp11 Tweetstream.
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