It came and went and no body knew it. February 3rd was the 2nd birthday of #kidmin. We should be ashamed!
Happy Belated Birthday Kidmin!
People always seem to give me the credit for coming up with the hashtag. I was a part of it, but it was a team effort. In case you don’t remember (or weren’t even on twitter yet, here’s where it all started.
After the superbowl in 2009, John Mullis (@johnincolorado) tweeted me asking me if there was a hash tag for children’s ministry. There were a lot of us children’s ministry leaders on twitter that night goofing off on twitter in conjunction with the superbowl. I was intrigued, so the next morning I wrote this post on the blog.
You’ll see that I still didn’t really understand the point of the hashtag, but I was pushing for our own space on twitter. I recommended #kidsmin or #CM. You’ll see in the comments that there was a big push to use #CM, but also that John Mullis shortened my kidsmin suggestion to just Kidmin. Although I had a few comments on my blog, these guys as well as others like my pals Jonathan Cliff, Matt McKee, Sam Luce, Gina McClain and others had already started using #kidmin that day. If you could go back and see the tweets, you’d see tweets using both #CM, #kidsmin and #kidmin.
Then, later that day, I wrote this post. Everyone had just started attaching #kidmin to their posts. It was official. #Kidmin was born. February 3, 2009. Mark your calendar, we’re going to throw a party next year.
#happybirthday to #kidmin
This is so cool! It was kind of fun to relive the birth of the kidmin.
i remember all that. i remember asking @pudgehuckaby about coming up with a hashtag, too, and getting the word out and about. it’s a good community we have on twitter.
i think it’s very important to remember that student ministry copied us and adopted their hashtag AFTER we did. just more evidence that kidmin rocks!
2 years on the internet what’s that in human years? John actually I think we helped them come up with theirs.
So proud to be a part of the birth of #kidmin. You guys continue to rock my face off.
#happybirthday #kidmin #weareproud #ofyou
Funny! Sam, I think you’re right. I don’t think that student ministry actually came up with their own… I think that all in that same day, we just doled out #kidmin, #stumin and #fammin. So, you’re welcome #stumin!