social media basics and benefits for public health

Social Media \s -sh l m -d - \ō ə ē ē ə

forms of electronic communication through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content

Webster’s Definition

How many in the audience today use:

How many of your departments use these tools?

Large network of users in every community

Can share information with partners

Valuable venue to communicate with constituents who care

Tweet- an update posted to a user’s twitter profile

Re-tweet- a tweet repeated by another user

Hashtag- a key word used to enable users to search for tweets about a specific subject (#pumpershow)

Mention- when one user refers to another user by username to give that user additional exposure

@OHdeptofhealth

@nehaorg

@HamCoHealth

@NSF_intl @OhioEPA

@ohioeha@WHO @MiamiCountyPH

@LCHealthDist

Existing large network of users (smaller than facebook)

Easy to share links to large volumes of information

Valuable venue to communicate with colleagues and others

How do I manage all of this?!?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/33778545@N07/4053418477/sizes/m/in/photostream/

TweetDeck

Seesmic

HootSuite

HootSuite

Share information with your community

Drive traffic to your website

Employer permission/social media policy

Communicate in a professional manner

Jason Menchhofer, R.S.Van Wert County Health Department

419-238-0808, ext. 108jmenchhofer@vanwertcountyhealth.org

@jmenchhoferwww.facebook.com/vanwertcountyhealthdepartment

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