I don't use it much, but I wanted mention that I support #egils too. Whenever I write notes about Evergreen on my calendar or email I always use eg, and to me personally evg looks a little odd in addition to being longer than necessary.
Jason -- Jason Boyer, IT Specialist Jackson County Public Library 303 W Second St Seymour, IN 47274 [email protected] On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Lori Bowen Ayre <[email protected]>wrote: > I like egils better than evgils. evgils looks too much like > evil....whereas egils makes me think more about equality and other lofty > things. And egils is short. And it will go nicely with the egconf11 > hashtag. > > Can I get some feedback on #egils? > > Lori > > > On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Amy Terlaga <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On this: >> >> >> >> >I'm assuming for this year's conference we'll use #evg11, >> >> >> >> Nope, no can do. Tried evg11 and so many variations on it, it made me >> dizzy. >> >> >> >> Finally found success with egconf11. Not the best, but trust me – so many >> other combinations ended in failure. >> >> >> >> And by the way, the Grand Rapids conference crew transferred the Twitter >> account over to us, including all those users who had signed up to follow >> the 2010 conference. >> >> >> >> We’ve posted here and there and there’s a feed on the front page of the >> conference website so sign up: >> >> >> >> egconf11 >> >> >> >> We’ll post more frequently as we inch ever closer to the April conference. >> >> >> >> Amy >> >> >> >> From: "Kate Sheehan" <[email protected]> >> >> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Hashtag >> >> To: "'Evergreen Discussion Group'" >> >> <[email protected]> >> >> Message-ID: <[email protected]> >> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >> >> >> >> Thanks for bringing this to the list, Lori! >> >> >> >> On twitter, I've found that #evergreen by itself isn't distinct enough, >> and #evgils has worked well (and is patterned off of #kohails). >> >> >> >> >> >> I'd be open to #evergreenoss or #evergreenils, but they are very long in >> the >> >> 140 character world. #openils works, but is it too broad (without the >> context of the history of Evergreen's name, this could easily apply to any >> open source ILS, which is fine, but is that what we're going for in our >> common-law marriage hashtag)? I'm assuming for this year's conference we'll >> use #evg11, which brings up another argument for extreme brevity. >> >> Conferences are often when folks want to add more than one hashtag to an >> update. I'm thinking of sessions at ALA like Top Tech Trends, which usually >> has its own hashtag, along with the conference hashtag and sometimes, just >> for fun, a LITA hashtag. It can leave very little room to actually say >> anything about the session! >> >> >> >> >> >> I'd vote for #evgils or #openils (or if you have room, both). >> >> >> >> >> >> +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ >> >> Amy Terlaga >> >> Assistant Director, User Services >> >> Bibliomation, Inc. >> >> 32 Crest Road >> >> Middlebury, CT 06762 >> >> www.biblio.org >> >> >> > > > > -- > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Lori Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant > The Galecia Group // www.galecia.com > (707) 763-6869 // [email protected] > > <[email protected]>Specializing in open source ILS solutions, RFID, > filtering, > workflow optimization, and materials handling > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > >
