Sage Summit 2012 is scheduled for Nashville TN August 12-17, 2012. As with prior years a big part of the value that youll take away from the conference will be interacting with other participants.

However if you arent all that familiar with Social Media you may struggle to understand the various ways the to connect.

Theres a Sage Summit Facebook Group for private discussion, a Twitter account for official tweets and YouTube for videos.

Where is the best place to visit if you dont have time to create multiple social media accounts?

We suggest that if you can only pick one tool – use Twitter.

This online short messaging service is perhaps the most popular communications tool during conferences. The secret to finding highly relevant content is to search for the official hash tag for Sage Summit – #Sagesummit.

Hashtags are special abbreviations which users place into their messages to categorize the content. Searching for the hashtag #sagesummit will filter out your Twitter feed and show only the active messages being broadcast during the conference.

Below is an image of what your filtered search for #Sagesummit will look like via the http://www.twitter.com site.

All mobile Twitter clients allow you to perform similar searches.