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It is in the Buzz
Since last Monday, if you have the slightest interest in nature and green living, you can not have missed the #ecomonday hashtag on Twitter.
What is it? It originates from a tweet made by @MaxGladwell. The first tweet looks like this.
We suggested starting #ecomonday last week as the #followfriday for green. @sheagunther gives it a boost: http://bit.ly/17EqZ5
In the quoted link to Shea Gunther's blogpost "The great green Twitter follow parade", Shea points out that just 10 green people on the last #followfriday on Twitter was just not enough. There was a call for all Green tweople to list their Twitter accounts in the comment section. This was a week ago. Soon it was re-tweeted all over Twitter and today it could hardly be missed. It is incredible how viral Twitter can become. Since last Monday a couple of thousand tweets have been sent containing the "#ecomonday" tag. Shea also gives credit to Jeremya Owyang @jowyang, who is a Twitter guru. Credit where credit is due.
Ecomonday has evolved not only to recommend people to follow, but also recommending specific web-pages and blogs, as well as recommending eco-businesses.
I suggest you check Max Gladwell's site to check for the Tweets containing the #ecomonday hashtag. If you use Tweetdeck or a similar application, you may want to open a search column for the hashtag.
Finally quoting Shea:
If we can get this out wide enough to all the eco-minded Tweople, we can firm up our connections to one another and come out a stronger, more followed mass of greenies. Knowledge and connections are power and the more networked we are the better able to blast out the message that the environment needs to be a consideration in our headlong rush towards the future.
If you haven't got a clue what Twitter is yet, check out these posts.
They are mostly directed towards birders, but anyone can grasp the essence in these posts. (You are on a birdwatching site in case you did not notice - but the owner is very interested in Social Media and Green.)
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Gunnar - Something wrong w/ links to your twitter posts mentioned above.
Hi Charles.
Thanks for pointing this out. Should work now.
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