[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Hashtag

[Brian Feifarek]

egils ++  I tend to abbreviate eg= EverGreen, and prefer gills to evil.

> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 16:04:38 -0400
> From: csharp at georgialibraries.org
> To: open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org
> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Hashtag
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> I'm afraid I'm reading #egils as "e-gills".  eeevil or not ;-), I vote for #evgils, because it reads EVerGreen ILS to me.
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> Just my two cents!
> 
> Chris
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> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Grace Dunbar" <gdunbar at esilibrary.com>
> > To: open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 3:50:05 PM
> > Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Hashtag
> > Lori, I agree that egils just sounds/looks better than evgils.
> > egils++
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> > Grace
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> > On 3/16/11 3:13 PM, Lori Bowen Ayre wrote:
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> > 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.
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> > Can I get some feedback on #egils?
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> > 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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> > Amy Terlaga
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