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

Fri Feb 8 17:48:49 GMT 2013

Thanks for your input Ash, David, and Amy.

I suppose using both makes sense at this point, and though it'll be an
extra step to aggregate all the tweets/posts, I understand the branding and
less cryptic side of human-readable hashtags.  I've attached #ODHD13 to the
tweets I've made so far, but will use #opendataday too.

@Amy: I thought about a tweet wall last night, and am going to ping our
Affiliate Network Manager (Jess Coates) about the tool she used during our
CC10 birthday party.  We had a tweet-stream projected on a wall during that
event that got people interacting, posting pictures, and sending
well-wishes that I think would be neat to have during #ODHD13.  Or was it
#opendataday?  I kid, I kid :)

Does anyone know of a good (free/open) tool to do a tweet stream with?  The
one used during the Open Knowledge
Festival<http://okfestival.org/hashtag/#visualisation>was awesome.

Also, I spoke with Ross Mounce (OKF) about doing a live check-in call
between a bunch of the hackathons.  The conclusion of the Open Data Day
events in Europe will coincide with the start of the event here in Mountain
View, and we're thinking that this will increase the sense of community and
bring a cohesive "we are all in this together" feel to the events, though
they are separated by thousands of miles.

Thoughts? (I know it's poor form to not have just started a new mailing
list topic, apologies)

Billy

On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Amy G <rhiaro at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> For introductions sake, I'm a PhD student helping to organise Edinburgh's
> Open Data Day event, more details of which will follow soon.
>
> I just thought I'd chip in to say I prefer #opendataday, mostly because
> our event isn't a hack day, so the extra H might confuse some folk. Well,
> perhaps ours is 'social hacking', but there might be people in the audience
> who aren't associating what we're doing with hacking at this stage.
>
> It would be simple enough to have some central page (maybe we could make a
> custom tweet wall for everyone to use) that aggregates all relevant
> hashtags and mentions for easy reference.
>
> Amy
> On 8 Feb 2013 16:40, "Billy Meinke" <billy.meinke at creativecommons.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Beatrice,
>>
>> 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
>> 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.
>>
>> 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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>>>
>>
>>
>> --
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