"Memphis, Y U Not Use Hashtags" by: Aaron Prather

Memphis, Y U Not Use Hashtags?

What is a Hashtag?
Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. They're like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. You create a hashtag simply by prefixing a word with a hash symbol: #hashtag .

What is a Hashtag?
Hashtags were developed as a means to create “groupings” on Twitter, without having to change the basic service.

How they are used?
They’re not the most beautiful things ever, but they’re pretty easy to use.

Good Old #FollowFriday #FF

Can be used for any event

#IranElection of 2009

#Egypt in 2011

The Power of Hashtag
Allows “events” to be tracked from a single source.
Speeds up information flow.
Allows more people to add to the story.

The Boston “Snowpocalypse” Experiment
Andrew Phillips at WBUR in Boston used the hashtag #ViewFromMyWindow to get listeners’ tweets about the storm.
He received simple photos to serious issues and problems that needed to be address.
Other media outlets and government agencies started to monitor the hashtag to get info and address those problems.
Phillips is up for a Pulitzer.

The Memphis Problem Send your photos and problems to the Commercial Appeal! No to us! We want that!

So then…. WHAT PROBLEM?!?!

Information Is Golden
If all of the information is scattered among numerous sources, we do not have a complete picture.

Have all outlets tap into and ADD to a single Source!
Commercial Appeal, WREG, WMC, FOX13, etc. can use and ADD to the Hashtag Stream.
Citizens and Government can use and add to the Hashtag Stream.
A Mississippi River of Information!

Memphis and Snow
Would have been nice to know where the problem roads were?
Why is this road/bridge “salted”, but three blocks down it isn’t?
Anyone open?

What could we fix with Hashtags?
#memtraffic
#mempothole
#memsnow
#princemongo

What it will take
COMMUNITY!!!
This has to come from the ground up and the others will follow.
ReTweets and Follow Ups

This will make Memphis better!

So Let’s Make It Happen

Thanks for Your Time

"Memphis, Y U Not Use Hashtags" by: Aaron Prather

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