atw: Re: Sydney technical communicators group - free lunch and presentation, Wed 4 May
- From: Sarah Maddox <smaddox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:39:37 +1000
Hallo Christine and Lana
Thanks for that great explanation, Lana!
Christine, it's a great idea to send people some material about Twitter
itself. I wrote a blog post a while ago, that starts off with an
introduction to Twitter:
http://ffeathers.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/twitter-as-a-medium-for-release-notes/
I hope that's useful!
Cheers
Sarah
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Technical writer at Atlassian -- www.atlassian.com
sarah@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 28 April 2011 12:15, Lana Brindley <lanabrindley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Christine,
>
> If I may step in, a hashtag is simply a word (or several words,
> without spaces or punctuation) preceded by a hash symbol that is
> included in your tweet. The idea is to make it easy to search for
> public tweets about a particular topic. For example, I might use the
> hashtag "#techcomm" in a tweet about technical communication. Then, if
> you wanted to see all the public tweets about technical communication,
> you could search on Twitter for "#techcomm" to see them all
> (http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23techcomm<http://twitter.com/#%21/search/%23techcomm>
> ).
>
> The blog post that Sarah linked to is asking you to include the
> hashtag "#SydneyTechComm" in your tweets about technical
> communication, or about the meeting, which will allow the organisers
> to collate your tweets, and present them at the meeting.
>
> Hope that helps explain it.
>
> Lana
>
> On 28 April 2011 11:44, Christine Kent <cmkentau@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I wish I was in Sydney for this. I can get value out of LinkedIn, and
> get
> > value out of Facebook, but I cannot get any value at all from Twitter. I
> > know others do but it is beyond my grasp currently… not that I have
> studied
> > it to work out how to use it effectively.
> >
> >
> >
> > I checked out your blog, and didn’t understand it. I am on Twitter, and
> am
> > more than happy to tweet you, but I have no idea what a hash tag is and
> how
> > to use it.
> >
> >
> >
> > So what about doing some nice summary of tricks to make Twitter useful?
> Or
> > even doing some kind of on-line “class” to teach us how to use it?
> >
> >
> >
> > Christine
> >
> >
> >
> > From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sarah Maddox
> > Sent: Thursday, 28 April 2011 11:35 AM
> > To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: atw: Sydney technical communicators group - free lunch and
> > presentation, Wed 4 May
> >
> >
> >
> > Hallo all
> >
> > I think Bede has already posted about this session, but a good thing is
> > worth repeating. :)
> >
> > The next meeting of the Sydney CBD technical communicators group is on
> > Wednesday 4 May. This month it will happen at the Atlassian offices, and
> > I’ll be presenting a session on Twitter in and around your documentation.
> > Can you come? Lunch is on the house!
> >
> > Details here:
> >
> http://ffeathers.wordpress.com/2011/04/28/tweet-at-us-now-sydney-technical-communicators-meeting-at-atlassian-on-4-may/
> >
> > Cheers
> > Sarah
> > ____
> >
> > Technical writer at Atlassian -- www.atlassian.com
> > sarah@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> --
> Lana Brindley
> writer:speaker:blogger
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