This simple piece provides the capacity for speaker or presenter to to participate in the backchannel of a talk or conference session by integrating live 'tweets' into an Apple Keynote presentation. Simply add text inside the tags [twitter] and [/twitter] in the presenter notes section of a slide and when that slide comes up in the presentation the script will grab that text and send it to Twitter on your behalf.

Here are the details:

The software works with Keynote (on a Mac) but not with Powerpoint. It's written in Applescript so it's easy to customize -- it's compiled as a 'stay open' application but you can open it in Script Editor to modify as you wish. Out of the box it will ask you if you want to add any #hashtags or @mentions to all the tweets (e.g. for a conference #hashtag), and will watch your presenter notes for tweettweet this[/tweet] while in presentation mode only.

In order for the script to work, you'll need to have your Twitter credentails in your Kechain. If they're not in there already (e.g. b/c you use Twitterific or similar), use Keychain Access to add a new password to your login keychain with the following information:

• Keychain Item Name: http://twitter.com
• Account Name: Your email address
• Password: Your Twitter password

(Thanks to http://codahale.com'>codahale.com for this approach to applescript)