What Twitter streams would help you most?

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Permalink Reply by Pamela L. Reilly on September 22, 2009 at 3:16pm

This is a great idea. Thanks so much! Feeds I'd love to see include:

#SIHealth or Wellness or Fitness for tweets related to health

and

#SINatHealth or Natural (or something similar) for tweets related to natural health modalities

#SITraining or Classes for tweets related to classes and training being offered in Indy

Thanks again for starting this!

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Permalink Reply by Jeb Banner on September 22, 2009 at 3:34pm

glad to see you get this rolling so quickly! You are a man of action Mr Coyle!
I'm excited to see what people think of the categories pages we are working on that these tags will help power.

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Permalink Reply by Pat Coyle on September 22, 2009 at 3:54pm

I just hope people add valuable info to the threads...and not purely promotion for their companies...http://twitter.com/marathonevents

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Permalink Reply by Noah Coffey on September 22, 2009 at 4:10pm

I like hashtags when used for certain purposes (especially for events). But, I wonder if asking people to use these very specific tags will end up having the opposite effect (making it harder to find people and ideas). Will people continue to plug "SI" in front of their relevant hashtags next week? next month?

My thought would be to, instead, provide feeds that search for more generic hashtags such as #marketing (with or without the hashmark) and make the search limited geographically to Indiana (or a few major Indiana cities).

Example: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23marketing+near%3Aindianapolis

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Permalink Reply by john blue on September 23, 2009 at 2:23pm

Agreed , I use standard words (#
marketing #farm #beef etc) when posting tweets; creating specialized hash tags does make it harder for a broader audience to discover info.

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Permalink Reply by Jeb Banner on September 22, 2009 at 4:23pm

good point, it could become a cluttered mess of self marketing!
Hopefully that will settle down over time and it will be the resource you envision.

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Permalink Reply by Rollie Cole on September 22, 2009 at 4:56pm

Pat:

We may want one of these for Gov 2.0, once we figure out what to do with it. I leave 9/24 for a while, but will be back 10/12 -- so later that week, I will try to reach you about moving forward.

Rollie

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Permalink Reply by Jack Shepler on September 22, 2009 at 7:01pm

I would suggest as short as possible, such as #SIedu and #SIbiz

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Permalink Reply by Pat Coyle on September 22, 2009 at 9:05pm

I agree, but I'm concerned that some abbreviations might get confusing (mktg for marketing)..is it worth saving just a few characters?

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Permalink Reply by Jack Shepler on September 28, 2009 at 3:06pm

I agree with you on names like that.. but I think most people get that edu = education and biz = business. I guess it's really just those two :)

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Permalink Reply by john blue on September 22, 2009 at 10:37pm

How about an #SIchat, similar in nature to #journchat (http://journchat.info/) or #agchat (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=67010541510 ), where specific SI issues can be given a deeper discussion opportunity?

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Permalink Reply by Pat Coyle on September 23, 2009 at 9:12am

Great idea

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