[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Hashtag

[Jason Boyer]

I don't use it much, but I wanted mention that I support #egils too.
Whenever I write notes about Evergreen on my calendar or email I always use
eg, and to me personally evg looks a little odd in addition to being longer
than necessary.

Jason

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On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Lori Bowen Ayre <lori.ayre at galecia.com>wrote:

> I like egils better than evgils.  evgils looks too much like
> evil....whereas egils makes me think more about equality and other lofty
> things.  And egils is short.  And it will go nicely with the egconf11
> hashtag.
>
> Can I get some feedback on #egils?
>
> Lori
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> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Amy Terlaga <terlaga at biblio.org> wrote:
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>> On this:
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>> >I'm assuming for this year's conference we'll use #evg11,
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>> Nope, no can do.  Tried evg11 and so many variations on it, it made me
>> dizzy.
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>> Finally found success with egconf11.  Not the best, but trust me – so many
>> other combinations ended in failure.
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>> And by the way, the Grand Rapids conference crew transferred the Twitter
>> account over to us, including all those users who had signed up to follow
>> the 2010 conference.
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>> We’ve posted here and there and there’s a feed on the front page of the
>> conference website so sign up:
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>> egconf11
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>> We’ll post more frequently as we inch ever closer to the April conference.
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>> Amy
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>> From: "Kate Sheehan" <ksheehan at biblio.org>
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>> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Hashtag
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>> To: "'Evergreen Discussion Group'"
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>> Thanks for bringing this to the list, Lori!
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>> On twitter, I've found that #evergreen by itself isn't distinct enough,
>> and #evgils has worked well (and is patterned off of #kohails).
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>> I'd be open to #evergreenoss or #evergreenils, but they are very long in
>> the
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>> 140 character world. #openils works, but is it too broad (without the
>> context of the history of Evergreen's name, this could easily apply to any
>> open source ILS, which is fine, but is that what we're going for in our
>> common-law marriage hashtag)? I'm assuming for this year's conference we'll
>> use #evg11, which brings up another argument for extreme brevity.
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>> Conferences are often when folks want to add more than one hashtag to an
>> update. I'm thinking of sessions at ALA like Top Tech Trends, which usually
>> has its own hashtag, along with the conference hashtag and sometimes, just
>> for fun, a LITA hashtag. It can leave very little room to actually say
>> anything about the session!
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>> I'd vote for #evgils or #openils (or if you have room, both).
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>> +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
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>> Amy Terlaga
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