In today’s Web Informant article by my friend David Strom, he talks about the back channel at presentations – the growing numb er of attendees who are heads-down commenting on your presentation through social media channels like twitter, facebook and the like.

These folks aren’t trying to be rude – they’re for the most part quite engaged in the presentation they’re attending – they’re sharing the essence of what they are hearing with their network and the world beyond, if the hashtags are hot.

How does this affect your style of presentation, or what content you are sharing in the first place? I suppose not much, just the evolution of attentive listening skills to include simultaneous input and output?

Rude or Rad?  I’d love to hear your thought on this so comment and let me know what you think.