July 30, 2016, a new page has been created in ALD History Blog:
ALD glossary: abbreviations and Twitter. While I have been thinking of setting up this page for a long time, the rapidly increasing use of Twitter in the ALD community and the recognition of the "
best tweet" at
ALD 2016 made the need immediate. The glossary lists (
link) are not final but just a start; comments and suggestions for improvements are welcome.
For the Twitter hashtag list, I tried to trace back and describe there the first use of the hashtags. Sometimes, this was easy as the hashtag is uniquely used for ALD (
#ALDep,
#BalticALD,
#FinALD40, ...); sometimes, this is more difficult as the hashtag is in multiple use in Twitter (e.g.,
#ALD2015,
#ALD16,
#ALD2016,
#VPHA). In Twitter, no-one "owns" a hashtag and anyone can start using whatever they like, also one that is already in use. Twitter is by its nature chaotic; good hashtags are keywords which help to navigate through the chaos.
