A Basic Understanding Of Hashtags

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** Course updated October 2, 2015 **

Hashtags are everywhere!

We see them during television shows; on movie trailers; for sporting events and on entertainment programs. They are event printed on shirts and hats!

Although we might see a hashtag, we might not really know what it means and why there is a hashtag in the first place.

In this introductory course, we'll explain the following:

• What is a hashtag?
• What does a hashtag look like?
• What does a hashtag mean?
• How did hashtags get started?
• Who uses hashtags?
• How hashtags can be valuable during a disaster.
• How hashtag activism and cause marketing works.
• How hashtags are being used in a negative way...and much more!

This 11-lecture course also includes a simple course review worksheet and a 10-question quiz.