What are CanTags?

• CanTags make it easy to find and share news online by topic and geographic location, using a standard set of codes. For example,  to tweet some news about last night's Leafs game in Toronto, you'd add #TORSPO to your tweet.

How can I use CanTags?

• When tweeting or sharing your news online, use the standard CanTags to make it easy for others to find it. Here are the standard topic and city codes.

How can I suggest or add more CanTags to the list?

• There are three easy ways for you to contribute.
  • Join the CanTags wiki (link to signup)
  • Send your suggestions to @CanTags on Twitter
  • Email cantags@gmail.com

Who is behind CanTags?

• Toronto mediamaker Geo Perdis (@geoperdis), who was looking for a better way to search for Toronto news on Twitter and tweeted his initial ideas.
• Through contributions by new media journalism pioneer Wayne MacPhail (@wmacphail) and author/blogger/journalist Craig Silverman (@craigsilverman) standard city and topic codes were defined.
• Subsequently more mediamakers, marketers and technologists have joined in to further shape and define CanTags nationwide.

What is next for CanTags?

• Having started with topic and city codes, CanTags is now adding neighborhood-level tags using the first three characters of postal codes (known as FSAs).