Calling all Tweeters - International Mother Language Day #IMLD14

[eddie avila]

Hi all,

In celebration of International Mother Language Day #imld14, Rising Voices, together with our friends at the Living Tongues Institute, Endangered Languages Project, and Indigenous Tweets are encouraging, promoting, and highlighting those that tweet in their mother language. We hope that you'll join us tomorrow (Feb. 21)

Here is how you can participate:

1.) On Friday, February 21, tweet in your mother language about why it's important to use your native tongue in citizen media.

2.) You may also want to follow that tweet with a translation so that more people following along can read your message.

3.) Important: add the following hashtags to your tweet:

#imld14 (International Mother Language Day 2014)
#(the name of the language you are writing in), for example #cherokee #bambara #xhosa
4.) Follow along the hashtag #imld14 to see messages from around the world and retweet to help amplify their messages. You may also wish to follow along the hashtag of your language to connect with others that you may not already know.

5.) Help someone else get started on Twitter by assisting them by to sign up here so that they can begin tweeting.

Thanks!

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Eddie Avila
Director | Rising Voices
Global Voices Online
http://rising.globalvoicesonline.org
Twitter: @risingvoices, @barrioflores






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