Over the last week we have added a number of new features to hashtagsocialmedia.com

We are striving to make the site more valuable to our users, chat participants and moderators.

So here is the quick list of updates.

Filter out Re-tweets

On the live page we have replaced the old “Filter out the #socialmedia noise” with a an new option to “filter out the Re-tweets”

Since we no longer use the #socialmedia hash tag for our live events this is no longer necessary. So we updated the function kto filter out Re-tweets instead. We think this is a great, simple new feature that can drastically improve the experience of following a fast paced twitter conversation.

Feature Chat Participant

Our second update to the live page is the ability to feature a chat participant. By default we highlight the moderator so that you can easily see when the moderator poses a new question or answers a participants question.Now you have the ability to highlight any other participant you like. To use this feature simply click on the top right green corner of any tweet in the live stream and you will see all tweets by that paricipant highlighted with a green boarder. See an example below

Embed Twitter Chats

The next new item is embedded conversations. This one we are really excited about. Put simply you can now embed a past conversation on to any webpage you like. We have noticed over the last year that several people write blog posts that pick up where the chat left off or perhaps the chat inspired them to ask new questions and author a new blog post. So we wanted to make it easier for users to embed the archived conversation right into their gblog post so their readers can easily reference the conversation.

Here is how to embed a conversation

Head over to hashtagsocialmedia.com/events and choose an event. Let’s shoose event #sm79 moderated by Chris Heuer. Here is a direct link to the archived chat http://hashtagsocialmedia.com/event/79 .
You will see a new embed feature in the chat details block. See the image below for the exact location of the feature. Copy and paste the embed code on to any website you would like to add it to.

Here is an example of the #sm79 event embedded.

Mobile Live feed.

Finally we have added a new way to follow the weekly chat on your phone. We have create a mobile optimized page located here: http://hashtagsocialmedia.com/m .

That is all for this week. We have a number of new things coming soon so check back for new features and announcements over the coming weeks.