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

[Eric Mill]

I'd love to use #opendataday and have it up on the screen in the morning at
our DC event. It's clear and pleasant.


On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Billy Meinke <
billy.meinke at creativecommons.org> wrote:

> 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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