It's good when an interest group can agree on a twitter hashtag to focus on their area of interest. For instance, after discussion and brainstorming, practicioners/advocates agreed on #ieway for web and digital evangelism, and #mobmin for mobile phone/device ministry. (If you want to follow these, you can search at Twitter, or use a service such as www.twubs.com/a>;http://www.twubs.com> followed by the hashtag (minus the #), ie www.twubs.com/ieway/a>;http://www.twubs.com/ieway>
We'd now like to have a hashtag that relates to an evangelistic video short. The sort of clip that www.yesheis.com/a>;http://www.yesheis.com> and www.globalshortfilmnetwork.com/a>;http://www.globalshortfilmnetwork.com> promote, and including animated shorts too. These would be any clip which is a conversation-starter, parable, or visual story as well as direct presentations of the gospel. It would include acted stories, sequential stills/time lapse and sketches, animations, puppets, interviews, testimonies or monologues.
A hashtag like this needs:
- to be relatively short, so as to not use up too much space in a tweet
- be memorable
- be obvious in its meaning, for those who need to know
- apply only to the specific genre of video shorts, not all films
Of course, a hashtag can be clarified by other tags. For instance a video short which was also an anime, and in Japanese, can be posted as #videoshort #anime #japanese. An apologetic short could be likewise focused. So what seems to be needed is a hashtag that has general application for any video clip up to about 10 minutes (rather than full length drama films, lectures, sermons etc.)
Here's a few that have come up in discussions so far:
#faithmovie, #Godmovie, #Chrmovie, #Chrfilm, #Chrflix, #faithflix, #Jvid, #evanfilm, #evanshort, #minfilm, #Deofilm, #Jfilms, #Jflix, #Filmmin, #4reels, #Realreels, #Realreel
Which ONE of the above do would you choose for a hashtag?
Tags: EvangelismShortFilms, Feedback, Hashtag, Twitter
Permalink Reply by Clyde Taber on October 25, 2011 at 7:52pm I'd go with #evanfilm, #evanshort. They seem the most pertinent.
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