How to participate in a hashtagged event
For those of you learning the ways of the twittersphere, here is another tip. In a previous post, I broke down the basic terms used by tweeters. Today, I am going to show how to join a conversation marked by a #hashtag. A hashtag is a term that is tagged to all conversations related to one topic. The tag enables the retrieval of those posts. An easy way to join a conversation is by going to TweetChat. You can participate in the conversation after you type in the hashtag.
I wanted to share this information with you because tonight educators, professionals, students and other online communicators can participate in a chat about the state of journalism education on the page or via Twitter. The hashtag is #collegejourn. The conversation focuses on how to best prepare students and addresses the quality of faculty and other educators. The chat begins at 8 p.m. EST.
New: collegejourn will be not a hashtag event, it is a live chat. Just go directly to the site.
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Hi Serena: I have been able to participate in hash tag discussions, but I was wondering if you could tell me how to create a discussion of my own on Twitter?
Hi Tom,
Just create your own hashtag and inform your friends of the hashtag. For example, my friend Dawn taught a social media workshop yesterday and she created this hashtag for the workshop #ASUNMA.