Be Thankful . . .

We live in a country where we have opportunity in the palm of our hand. We don’t have to be afraid to express our beliefs, or our passion for something we believe in. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. I am thankful for my family, my friends, health and life. Please enjoy this wonderful perspective on being thankful and gratitude.

Using Twitter hashtags to find online conversations

Twitter is becoming more and more useful as a tool for research and education. One of the newest ways to do this is to join a weekly chat on Twitter. Using a free piece of software and a Hashtag,  you can set a time to meet and discuss one or more topics. You can listen and learn or comment on posts that people send in.  Some call this a “Micro Meet.”

Just to clarify a Hashtag as defined on Twitter is:

Definition: The # symbol, called a hashtag, is used to mark keywords or topics in a Tweet. It was created organically by Twitter users as a way to categorize messages.

Hashtags: helping you find interesting Tweets

• People use the hashtag symbol # before relevant keywords in their Tweet to categorize those Tweets to show more easily in Twitter Search.
• Clicking on a hashtagged word in any message shows you all other Tweets in that category.
• Hashtags can occur anywhere in the Tweet.
• Hashtagged words that become very popular are often Trending Topics.

To access more help on Twitter visit their support area ata; https://support.twitter.com/

So a tweet with a hashtag looks like this:

Use a product to manage the ongoing conversation. And easy to use product is Tweetchat.  Join Tweetchat, search for a hashtag and watch the conversation real time. Also available is TweetGrid.  This is  a powerful Twitter search dashboard that allows you to search for up to 9 different topics, events, conversations, hashtags, phrases, people, groups, etc in real-time.

Either way try out a great conversation that happens every Monday evening at 9 p.m. EST/ 6 p.m. PDT called #retechchat. For more information visit this link. Click here for more info on #retechchat.