Everyone is on Twitter and every event that I attend in the bay area benefits when a hastag is used. Here is the definition of a hashtag (from Twitter wiki):
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.
Hashtags were developed as a means to create “groupings” on Twitter, without having to change the basic service. The hash symbol is a convention borrowed primarily from IRC channels, and later from Jaiku’s channels.
Now that we’re all on the same page, it has helped tremendously when going to a meetup, conference or party and searching Twitter for the hashtag and I can see if the event is packed, if the venue may have changed and see people’s thoughts on the event. I always search Twitter for that particular event to see who’s there, on their way and what they are talking about. It’s genius and conferences like Blog World expo or TechCrunch50 really benefited from the hastag concept.
This is an open message to all event organizers. If you’re posting an event online, please give the event a hashtag before the event begins. On every posting whether it’s Facebook, Upcoming or Eventbrite, there needs to be a hastag specified. It’s extremely easy. If I’m doing a Twitter meetup for Yoono, I’ll just say on the listing that the hastag is #yoonotweetup and that’s it. People involved in the event will begin using it and now we’re all in our own chat room. A good example of this is the #BWE08 hastag for Blog World. People that attended the conference are still using it to communicate 2 weeks after the conference ended.
Let’s start making this part of the planning process and not an afterthought. It benefits everyone.
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