[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Hashtag

[Michele Montague]

Another vote for #egils.  It's shortest and easier to say (for those of 
us who remember hashtags by their sound).

On 3/16/2011 3:13 PM, Lori Bowen Ayre 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
>
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Amy Terlaga <terlaga at biblio.org 
> <mailto:terlaga at biblio.org>> wrote:
>
>     On this:
>
>     >I'm assuming for this year's conference we'll use #evg11,
>
>     Nope, no can do.  Tried evg11 and so many variations on it, it
>     made me dizzy.
>
>     Finally found success with egconf11.  Not the best, but trust me –
>     so many other combinations ended in failure.
>
>     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.
>
>     We’ve posted here and there and there’s a feed on the front page
>     of the conference website so sign up:
>
>     egconf11
>
>     We’ll post more frequently as we inch ever closer to the April
>     conference.
>
>     Amy
>
>     From: "Kate Sheehan" <ksheehan at biblio.org
>     <mailto:ksheehan at biblio.org>>
>
>     Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Hashtag
>
>     To: "'Evergreen Discussion Group'"
>
>     <open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org
>     <mailto:open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org>>
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>     Thanks for bringing this to the list, Lori!
>
>     On twitter, I've found that #evergreen by itself isn't distinct
>     enough, and #evgils has worked well (and is patterned off of
>     #kohails).
>
>     I'd be open to #evergreenoss or #evergreenils, but they are very
>     long in the
>
>     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.
>
>     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!
>
>     I'd vote for #evgils or #openils (or if you have room, both).
>
>     +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
>
>     Amy Terlaga
>
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