Google Wave debuted in a whirlwind of buzz and expectation, and yet few of us have managed to make it part of our workflow. What is Google Wave good for anyway? Those use cases are still emerging, it seems.

Here’s an interesting one: Charlie Osmond at the FreshWorks blog points out that Twitter hashtags – adding the conference name as a hashtag on a tweet – aren’t an ideal solution to tracking a conference. In fact, Google Wave can do a better job, as proven by the recent Ecomm conference, at which delegates were all given Wave accounts and collaborated on Waves relating to each presentation.

Rather than a stream of disconnected Tweets, the result was a wiki-like page of annotations which evolved over the course of a presentation. Conference organizers also created a Wave directory to aggregate all the Waves relating to each presentation, plus a Wave where delegates could submit their feedback to make the conference better next year.

The screenshots below make a pretty good case for using Wave at conferences. What other interesting use cases have you seen?

Google Wave from Audience Watching Presentation

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