(ISF) Serious geekiness: Twitter hashtags

Dear ISF Colleagues,

I'm just waking up to the existence of the Twitter hashtag phenomenon.
Big props to Ruby for cluing me in to the homepage
<http://hashtags.org/>! I've located the #nptech homepage
<http://hashtags.org/tag/nptech/>.

My next question is about whether anyone has written a good lucid
cheatsheet about Twitter hashtags for distraught technophobic
nonprofit professionals.

Many thanks and best regards from Deborah

Deborah Elizabeth Finn
Cyber-Yenta
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
deborah_elizabeth_finn%40post.harvard.edu">deborah_elizabeth_finnpost.harvard.edu
www.cyber-yenta.org

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like a Mixture of some Frailties. It is by them
that we are best told, that we must not strike
too hard upon others....They pull our Rage by
the sleeve and whisper Gentleness to us in our
censures."
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>&gt;My next question is about whether anyone has written a good lucid cheatsheet about Twitter hashtags for distraught technophobic nonprofit professionals.>&gt;

IMHO, a distraught technophobic nonprofit professional shouldn't go near Twitter in the first place, let alone use hashtags.

There isn't much to them, really.

1) Make sure hashtags is following you, by following them : http://twitter.com/hashtags

2) whenever you send out a tweet that is significant and connected to a particular thing, then use the '#' symbol (a hash) and the tag. Like if you were tweeting about NTC use #08NTC. Use #nptech for some things. The tags are the same as general tags you'd use for blogging and bookmarking, except make sure there is a '#' sign in front of it.

3) Tag a pretty small minority of tweets - it's not like blog entries - be judicious - stuff you really want people to see.

4) Follow hashtags in your feedreader of choice by grabbing the feed URL from http://hashtags.org (you can do this without using Twitter at all!)

Peace,
Michelle
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Michelle Murrain
http://www.zenofnptech.org

Skype: pearlbear
AIM: pearlbear0

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Twemes tracks topics across Twitter

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/02/08/twemes-tracks-topics-across-twit ter/

Twitter hashtags for emergency coordination and disaster relief

http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/10/22/twitter-hashtags-for-emergency-coo rdination-and-disaster-relief/

Hashtags For My Followees

http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/12/18/hashtags-for-my-followees /

TechFold

Bold tech & web commentary

http://techfold.com/2007/12/

Another Tag Silo - Twitter Hashtags

A few days ago, I riffed on how the failure of user-powered tagging was what was driving the need for a semantic web - that jumbled, discontiguous tagging implementations had created a plethora of tag city-states who's inability to talk on a "national" level had reduced the tagging movement to a curiosity.

Today, another entrant in the form of Hashtags - tags for twitter post. Again, useful within the silo of the twitter-verse, but clunky to extend outwards. You can read more on hashtags via stoweboyd, or stephanie booth, or check out full coverage.

The stated purpose of hashtags is to all one to follow a topical twitter-stream, as was useful for those techies fleeing the SoCal fires this past year. But how much cooler would it be if you could stitch together Twitter content, Flickr coverage, posted videos, blog posts, and news, into a single realtime view of a given situation? That would look a lot like the output of a semantic application.

To do so now would require onerous hard-coding of proprietary hooks into each services API (twitter, flicker, youtube, etc.), with more custom coding to parse out time and geo-relevance data. As I mentioned in my previous article, a two-tiered tagging system composed of machine and human tags, shared in a consistent format, and conforming to common baseline standards would enable this.

What does # mean in a twitter post? All about octothorpetags.

http://vielmetti.typepad.com/vacuum/2007/11/what-does-mean-.html

Making the most of hashtags

http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/12/23/making-the-most-of-hashtags/

Tracking vs. #Hashtags

http://colbypalmer.com/index.php?/colbyworld/blogEntry/twitter_tracking_ vs_tagchannels/

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>>I'm just waking up to the existence of the Twitter hashtag phenomenon. Big props to Ruby for cluing me in to the homepage
<http://hashtags.org/ <http://hashtags.org/> >! I've located the #nptechhomepage
<;http://hashtags.org/tag/nptech/ <http://hashtags.org/tag/nptech/> >.
My next question is about whether anyone has written a good lucid
cheatsheet about Twitter hashtags for distraught technophobic
nonprofit professionals.>&gt;

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