Hashtags

As I was starting my blog posts, I was trying to find something in any of my Governing Council materials that gave the hashtag to use. Maybe too many of my other conferences are highly social media savvy, so I'm used to having a hashtag shared well in advance of the event. But I couldn't find one.

So I created one - and I didn't just create it randomly. I went on the Twitter and searched the first logical hashtag of #GC2014. Unfortunately, some Global Conference is happening right now and that hashtag is pretty busy. I tried #GC14, but that gets me tweets for something called a "Global Conflict" which looks to be a women's all-star wrestling match. Don't think I want my tweets to be combined with those tweets. 

I selected #GCSeattle -since that's our location. I even sent a tweet to @USFigureSkating to let them know and explain why. I sent out my first tweet using it, and people have started using it. Unfortunately, I just saw a tweet from US Figure Skating telling the world to use #GC14, but I think I'm going to stick to my original plan. 

I'm kinda a rebel like that.