Healthcare Hashtags … the ones that don’t get published

Healthcare conversations on Twitter are often formed around hashtags. These hashtags enable connections between individuals, foster the effective sharing of ideas, and help entire online communities to form and flourish. Ultimately, we hope that these hashtags are submitted here at Symplur to The Healthcare Hashtag Project where they can become archived, discoverable, and analyzed. During that submission process you’ll be prompted to provide several bits of information about your hashtag depending on what type it is (regular, tweet chat, conference, or disease). Once done, you’ll press the “Submit” button … but what happens then? Where’s my healthcare hashtag?! [pullquote2 align="right"]The fact is, we don’t publish about 75% of the hashtags submitted to us.[/pullquote2]Many people expect that a submitted hashtag will automatically be published on our site immediately. Many others anticipate that it may take several minutes, hours, or possibly even a day or so before it becomes publicly visible. And when any of these expectations aren’t met, we see a variety of responses … Near immediate resubmission of the hashtag (often two, three, or four times in succession). Querries submitted asking what went wrong, and when they can expect to see their hashtag listed. Frantic communications because of an imminent event (first tweet chat, conference start date, etc.). The fact is, we don’t publish about 75% of the hashtags su...
Source: Fox ePractice - Category: Health Managers Authors: Tags: Connecting the dots in healthcare social media Newsletter Hashtags The Healthcare Hashtag Project Source Type: blogs