Posts Tagged ‘hashtags’
my artifacts from libr559m
August 19th, 2011 • 1 comment library, tech
Tags: courses, dean giustini, hashtags, libr559m, libresistance, mashup, social media, storify, wiki
I made stuff in my social media course with Dean Giustini these past six weeks. If I actually tallied up the word count I bet it would be more than I’ve written for school than I’ve done for a long time.
Here are those words:
- A definition of hashtags (with @abedejesus)
- Making a Mashup Friendly Library (with @abedejesus @fongolia @jenn_pappas & @ktubc)
- The Library Resistance, a library advocacy aggregation portal (with @abedejesus @fongolia @jenn_pappas & @ktubc)
- A pile of blog posts
I suppose I posted in the private discussion forums for the class a bit too. And my Storify account has a bunch of archived Twitterstreams and blogposts from my classmates which I collected.
Yeah. That was kind of a busy six weeks. I’m pretty much done now though. I’ll add the rest of the blog posts to the appropriate Storify pages as they get published and that’ll be that.
social media glossary: #hashtags
July 13th, 2011 • 2 comments tech
Tags: ala, backchannel, charlie sheen, chris messina, conference, glossary, hashtags, irc, l33tsp33k, libchat, libr559m, module 1, social media, tags, twitter
Hashtags (#hashtags) are a way to label, collocate and provide meta-commentary for online communication.
Closely related to the idea of tagging in general they were originally conceived of in 2007 by Chris Messina. Hashtags have primarily spread through Twitter where with the 140 character limit, space for organization is at a premium. Using the # symbol smashed into the tags without spaces makes hashtags uniquely searchable.
Since Twitter integrated their function to make them clickable they’ve become an excellent way to bring together tweets from many different users about a subject. By 2011 many conferences (including ALA’s events) have quasi-official backchannels set up through hashtags, like #ala11. Through the use of this ungrammatical tagging (with its roots in irc channels) a person doesn’t have to follow everyone at a conference to get an idea of what’s going on. A saved search for a hashtag covers much more ground, and can be easily abandoned when the event is over.
Hashtags are also good for more ad-hoc tweetable events like #libchat, as well as a means to participate in memetic trends (such as Charlie Sheen’s #winning earlier in 2011). Being a relative of leetspeak the use of hashtags can also be an important internet in-group signifier.
