[okfn-help] Watching #opendata on Twitter?

Tue Jul 5 20:43:41 UTC 2011

I've added #opendata to my watchlist.

I think the choice RTing from the @okfn account has been really excellent for building the community. Great work folks :-)

Jason

On 5 Jul 2011, at 21:35, Kaitlyn (Kat) Braybrooke wrote:

> Great idea -- I'm doing it already regarding connecting with new folks on Twitter for OKFN London stuff -- and I agree, Jonathan, that the more of us who watch that hashtag for different possibilities, the better! Lots of interesting talk going on! 
> 
> On a side note, I've been RTing a lot of discussion related to #opendata and @okfn through the OKFN Twitter account and on my own account, and it's gotten a quite a fair bit of pick-up, which is great. Cool to see communities diverging and collaborating through different streams like that. 
> 
> Let me know if you want me to find anything specifically!
> 
> :) Kat
> 
> 
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> | Community Coordinator
> | Open Knowledge Foundation, London UK
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> 
> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Just a quick note to say that I think that following and posting stuff
> to #opendata on Twitter is something that we should all do more of,
> and more systematically. I try to do this - but it often falls through
> the cracks when things get busy.
> 
> I'm hoping that in the future we might have someone who watches
> #opendata for new developments and follows these up. But in the
> meantime, perhaps we can share this task between us?
> 
> Things to look out for:
> 
>  * New developments we should follow up on - perhaps forwarding URLs
> to relevant mailing lists or inviting relevant people to blog on
> blog.okfn.org
>  * New people/groups we should invite to participate in OKF
> groups/activities - particularly to Open Government Data Camp in
> Warsaw, and to open-government group
>  * New data catalogues we should add to datacatalogs.org
> 
> Anyone up for doing this with me? ;-)
> 
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