Wednesday, April 14, 2010

#Hashtags-R-Us

I’d been hearing about hashtags for quite a while and never quite “got it” until now, thanks to #DavidSpark, our keynote speaker at the upcoming #pincshow who straightened me out.

It’s so simple! Just send your Tweets as you normally would but add the “#” symbol in front of the word you expect will be followed. Then, if you search that word in Twitter or other Tweet-friendly applications (#Hashtags and TweetChat for example) – whalah! All the Tweets that include the hashtag and key-word are yours for the viewing.

We will be using this for our upcoming #PINCShow so tell your friends. All we need to do is spread the word that #PINCSHOW should be part of your message and then we’ll set up some monitors logged into Tweetchat.com. Tweetchat is our choice because it will automatically refresh every 5 seconds as Tweets come in so there’s no need to keep someone at the computer.

Feel free to get started now and let’s see how the conversation progresses!

By the way, PINC is now #VisualMediaAlliance. Actually, it’s Visual Media Alliance.

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