[open-data-day] Open Data Day Twitter hashtag: #opendataday (or #ODHD13?)

[Rufus Pollock]

On 8 February 2013 16:15, Billy Meinke <billy.meinke at creativecommons.org> wrote:
> Hi Beatrice,

Aside / Context: I had a quick chat with Beatrice about this which led
to her email ...

> Great to get your input on effective an effective hash tag for Open Data
> Day.  I'm a little concerned that many folks have already adopted #ODHD13 as
> the preferred hash tag, and that a change may be best implemented with
> consensus between all the hackathon organizers.  I'm all for

This is a good point and David has indicated this is the default
hashtag. I'm sorry to not to have chimed

I think the challenge is that even I (someone in the know) get a bit
confused ;-) (by default i'd think it was #odd but that's just odd ;-)
but we've got #odhd - which makes me think of adhd and i'm not sure
what "h" stands for - hackathon / hackday / hack i'm guessing, but
which creates a bit of a disjunction between the event "open data day"
and "open data hack day")

> easy-to-remember has tags and marking, so maybe using both when tagging
> tweets and posts is a way to keep things simple and understandable at this
> point.

That's definitely a possible solution.

I guess we should have a mild preference for one and approximately one
hashtag to keep things simple for people ...

Rufus

> Thoughts from others on the list are welcome.
>
> Billy
>
> On Friday, February 8, 2013, Beatrice Martini wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> My name is Beatrice, and I'm the Events Coordinator at the Open Knowledge
>> Foundation, which is – among other things – coordinating Open Data Day.
>> We noticed that there are different opinions about the right Twitter
>> hashtag to be used re Open Data Day and think that would be great if could
>> all agree on the same one (and tweet massively!)
>>
>> Instead of using acronyms which might be a bit too tricky to remember, how
>> about going for #opendataday? Easy to remember and everybody (even people
>> who don't know about the event) would understand what we're talking about
>> (and learn about it from your tweet!).
>>
>> Best,
>> Beatrice
>>
>> --
>> Beatrice Martini
>> Events Coordinator
>> Open Knowledge Foundation
>> Skype: beatricemartini
>> Twitter: @beatricemartini
>>
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> Billy Meinke
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