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Looking for a great way to find out about the buzz at the upcoming Fall 2010 Channel Partners Conference & Expo, Sept. 20-22, in Washington, D.C.? Hear it from your peers on Twitter. Just search for #CPexpo on Twitter. All tweets about the event will appear in one stream.

If you are tweeting about the show, don’t forget to add the hashtag #CPexpo to your post, so everyone else can see what you’ve said.

Before the show: Look for posts about education, special events, speakers, promotions, etc.

At the show: Find out about breaking news, live comments on sessions, speaker presentations, the 411 on vendor parties and more.

This is a great way to maximize your time at the event by participating in the activities and meeting the people that most interest you.

If you are not already on Twitter, this is one of the truly useful applications for this technology. It’s a way to find all posts about a topic you are interested in. For events, it extends the dialogue that you normally have with groups of four or five people at a time to all 2,000+ attendees. Let them be your eyes and ears. You just might learn something useful.