On Tags and Hashtags
I’m at BarCamp Grand Rapids this weekend, where they’ve setup tags for us to use: barcampgrandrapids3 on most site, and #bcgr3 on twitter.
I have problems here.
- Standardize. Its nice that we’re thinking about a shorter tag for twitter, but we should use one tag across all services.
- Readability. Similar to the first point, #bcgr3 means nothing to the average person. At least #barcampgr would make sense to people who’ve heard of barcamps (and is also the name of the website).
- The ‘3’ is irrelevant. Every site that uses tags, also timestamps. Find me one that doesn’t, I dare you. Tagging each year’s camp the same makes it more searchable and then you can then filter based on dates if you want.
- Combine. Though this one probably won’t get adopted, using a combination of tags would be even more useful. If you tagged #barcamp and #grandrapids you would be searchable as the combination, and separately.
That’s all. Just wanted to rant. I hereby nominate #barcampgr as the One Tag to Rule Them All.
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I would use the tag you are suggesting. Thanks for efforts !
Dan
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Good thoughts, Daniel, they make sense. Especially, since we use barcampgr.org for our domain and @barcampgr for our twitter account. I think we should plan on using ‘barcampgr’ as our tag for future events.
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Agreed with Dave. +1 for next year’s One Tag to Rule Them All.
