Remotely Sensing Coastal GeoTools?

I'm sure there are NSGIC folks in Myrtle Beach, SC, attending Coastal GeoTools 2009 this week, but not all of us who have an interest have been able to make it. Some were snowed-in by this weekend's nor'easter and some were left high and dry by the fiscal drought.

But there is good news for the coastally-curious. At least one attendee is live-tweeting the event. Oregon State University professor Dawn Wright has been shooting out notes from sessions at the conference via twitter. Of course, if you follow this link after about March 5, be aware that she'll be tweeting about something relatively else.

There appear to be other twitter-connected people at Coastal GeoTools. A twitter search finds a few people there and a few others looking for someone who is who will post updates. It is interesting to note a small effort to get those who are posting to use a common "hash-tag" to facilitate the conversation; #ncgt is suggested.

This suggests that we should -- as a community and before we get to conferences -- agree on common tags and other such metadata for use in twitter, or whatever new-fangled communications tools come along, to make our social-media use even more useful.