SHARE acronym announced July 3, 2009

On 17th June we held our first project team meeting and, amongst other things, we made the decision that we will be using the acronym “SHARE” for our JISC and Desire2Learn supported Repository Enhancement project. The acronym aims to capture the spirit of the project and stands for:

Supporting
Harnessing and
Advancing
Repository
Enhancement

It will be used to identify the project both internally and externally and can also be extended to become the project’s unique social media ‘tag’: NTUSHARE.

Social Media Aggregation of services using the NTUSHARE acronym

Why the need for a unique tag? Well, it allows us to easily find and pull together all comments, postings, resources, videos etc connected with the project which is excellent for the purposes of collation and sharing. The NTUSHARE tag works regardless of the online service the resource originally came from. Every time you find something project-related which you want to share or if you want to make a comment on / about the project, just tag it with “NTUSHARE” and we can pull all of the project-related communications into one place for everyone to access. On Twitter, just use NTUSHARE as a ‘hashtag‘ in the form of #NTUSHARE and again, we can bring that together with everything else project-related using services such as Friendfeed, Cover It Live or NetVibes.

For more about tagging, you might like to read this article about hashtags on the Twitter fan wiki or this article on Tags & Folksonomies: What are they and Why Should you Care?