"Memphis, Y U Not Use Hashtags" by: Aaron Prather
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Memphis, Y U Not Use Hashtags?
What is a Hashtag?
• Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. They're like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. You create a hashtag simply by prefixing a word with a hash symbol: #hashtag.
What is a Hashtag?
• Hashtags were developed as a means to create “groupings” on Twitter, without having to change the basic service.
How they are used?
• They’re not the most beautiful things ever, but they’re pretty easy to use.
Good Old #FollowFriday #FF
Can be used for any event
#IranElection of 2009
#Egypt in 2011
The Power of Hashtag
• Allows “events” to be tracked from a single source.
• Speeds up information flow.
• Allows more people to add to the story.
The Boston “Snowpocalypse” Experiment
• Andrew Phillips at WBUR in Boston used the hashtag #ViewFromMyWindow to get listeners’ tweets about the storm.
• He received simple photos to serious issues and problems that needed to be address.
• Other media outlets and government agencies started to monitor the hashtag to get info and address those problems.
• Phillips is up for a Pulitzer.
The Memphis ProblemSend your photos and
problems to the Commercial Appeal!
No to us!
We want that!
So then….
WHAT PROBLEM?!?!
Information Is Golden
• If all of the information is scattered among numerous sources, we do not have a complete picture.
Have all outlets tap into and ADD to a single Source!
• Commercial Appeal, WREG, WMC, FOX13, etc. can use and ADD to the Hashtag Stream.
• Citizens and Government can use and add to the Hashtag Stream.
• A Mississippi River of Information!
Memphis and Snow
• Would have been nice to know where the problem roads were?
• Why is this road/bridge “salted”, but three blocks down it isn’t?
• Anyone open?
What could we fix with Hashtags?
• #memtraffic
• #mempothole
• #memsnow
• #princemongo
What it will take
• COMMUNITY!!!
• This has to come from the ground up and the others will follow.
• ReTweets and Follow Ups
This will make Memphis better!
So Let’s Make It Happen
Thanks for Your Time