HRSA Social Media Webcast: Connecting With Your Target Audience

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What is Social Media? What are the steps to strategically use to understand social media? What are examples of successful public health case studies? Get the answers to all of the questions above and more during the HRSA Social Media Webcast!

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HRSA Social Media Webcast

 Connecting with your Target Audience Using Social Media

 

Presented By:Tomeeka Farrington, Founder, the Social Media U program and Principal, Spotlight Communications

John Richards, MA, AITP, Research Instructor, Health Information Group and MCH Library, Georgetown University

Welcome and Intro

Agenda

I. Welcome and Social Media Overview

II. Social Media and E-Learning Case Studies

III. Questions

What is Social Media?

Social Media Content created and

shared by individuals on the web using freely available websites that allow users to create and post their own images, video and text information and then share that with either the entire internet or just a select group of friends.

New Media vs. Social Media

new media - tools and technologies whose applications are considered new (as in very recent and emerging) for the professional communication and transfer of information and ideas.

social media - a sub-set of 'new media' characterized by online interactions and engagement. Social media does not refer to a specific platform or tool, but rather how the tool is used.

What is Web 2.0?

There are many other terms (web 2.0, gov 2.0, web 3.0, etc.) that are sometimes used interchangeably or that may vary slightly in meaning. We recommend you begin your exploration here: Web 2.0

Social Media Emerging Trends

MobileOnline VideoBranded CommunitiesGeolocation Technology

Social Media Overview Top Social Media Platforms

YouTube Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Google+ Pinterest Instagram

YouTube

YouTube is the world's most popular online video community, allowing millions of people to discover, watch and share originally-created videos. 

YouTube

4 billion YouTube views daily!24 hours of video is uploaded every minute.500 years of YouTube video are watched

every day on Facebook and over 700 YouTube videos are shared on Twitter each minute.

Facebook

A social networking website — a gathering spot, to connect with your friends and your friends’ friends.  Facebook allows you to make new connections who share a common interest, expanding your personal network.

More than 845 million active usersUsers spend over 700 billion minutes per month

Twitter

A microblogging service that allows people to type in messages or “tweets” that can be read by people following them.  All tweets are 140 characters or less. 

Twitter has more than 200 million registered users!

340 million tweets are written each day.

LinkedIn

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network. LinkedIn connects you to your most trusted contacts and helps you exchange knowledge, ideas, and opportunities. 

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network with over 100 million members and growing.

Social networking platform that allows users to hang out within different social groups or “circles.” Users can engage in “hangouts” with up to 10 other friends in a video chat conversation. 

• Google+ already has 170 million users!

Instagram

Instagram is a fun & quirky way to share your life with friends through a series of pictures. Snap a photo with your iPhone, then choose a filter to transform the look and feel of the shot into a memory to keep around forever. 

Instagram

• More than 40 million users, 10 million within the last month.

Pinterest

Pinterest lets you organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web. People use pinboards to plan their weddings, decorate their homes, and organize their favorite recipes.

Pinterest

• More than 10.4 million users • 97.9% of users are female• At the start of 2012, there were 810,000 daily visitors. Today,

there are approximately 2,000,000 visitors per day.

Getting Started

• What are the steps to strategically use to understand social media?

Social networking isn’t just for young people. The fastest-growing segment of Facebook users in the last half of 2008 was between the ages of 35 and 54. 

Step 1: Understand social media tools

How do they work? Keep fast-moving events

in real time

What do they offer? Internal collaboration Information-Sharing with

external partners Exchange information

with the public

Step 2: Focus on your mission

Focus on your agency’s goals. Have the potential to improve your

communications efforts. Serve a well-defined, mission-

oriented purpose

Make sure you can support multiple communications tools. Social-media sites that sit unintended can lose their value. 

Step 3: Choose the right tools

Choose the right tools for the job E-mail Personal web pages Podcast Blogs

Step 4: Allocate Resources

Implement tools you’ve chosen Invest in your resources

Step 5: Identify Metrics

Define what success looks like How will you measure it?

Subscriptions Page and Blog views Click-throughs

Increase audience engagement

Special Terms of Service agreements have already been negotiated with vendors like YouTube, Facebook, and Flickr, to make it easier for agencies to use these tools.

Step 6: Implement your Plan

Implement your plan Start small and see which initiatives work It’s OK to fail as you try new things

Social Media Case Studies

What does this have to do with public health? 81% of families, 97% of pediatricians, and 96% of state health department staff use the Internet to routinely locate health information (AAP, 2003; Fox et al., 2009; Turner et al., 2009).

Web 2.0 technologies that emphasize active information sharing have exploded into the public health landscape because they “reinforce and personalize health messages, reach new audiences, and build a communication infrastructure based on open information exchange” (AHRQ, 2010).

Social Media Case Studies

What is this stuff?

Social Media Case Studies

Who is using social media (Gov 2.0)?

Social Media Case Studies

How can we use social media?

Social Media Case Studies

What are the barriers to using social media?

Social Media Case Studies

YouTube It Gets Betterwww.itgetsbetter.org

www.youtube.org/user/itgetsbetterproject

SUID/SIDS ResourceCenter www.sidscenter.org

Social Media Case Studies

Facebook Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH)http://www.facebook.com/alabamapublichealth

“Lots of health topics, lots of information sources, and lots of updates make for a solid Facebook page” (8 Great Public Health Campaigns Using Social Media).

Social Media Case Studies

Twitter New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygienehttps://twitter.com/#!/nycHealthy

Social Media Case Studies

Twitter CDCRules!

Social Media Case Studies

Twitter Official HHS Twitter Accounts andTwitter guidelineshttp://www.newmedia.hhs.govtools/twitter.html

Social Media Case Studies

LinkedIn Healthy People 2010

Social Media Case Studies

Podcasts NIH Health Mattershttp://www.nih.gov/news/radio/healthmatters

Social Media Case Studies

Photo Sharing:Flickr AIDS.govhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/aidsgov

Social Media Case Studies

Blog SAMHSA Bloghttp://blog.samhsa.gov

Social Media Case Studies

Text MessagingText 4 Babyhttp://www.text4baby.org

Evaluation of Text Messaging: Flu VaccineJAMA, 9 May 2012

Social Media Case Studies

InstagramAround the Tablewww.healthinfogroup.org

Social Media Case Studies

WikisSIDS on Wikipedia

Social Media and E-Learning

Why?Continuing education needs for public health personnel are largely unmet State and local agencies have limited capacity to meet those training needsReasons include: lack of funding, time away from work, travel restrictionsThere is an “appreciable interest, capacity, and preference” for DL at state and local levels, especially interactive3/4 of agencies have capacity to access Web-based programs2/3 of agencies give approval to use Web for CE during work hours

Social Media and E-Learning

MCH Distance Learning Grantees: 716 DL short term trainees1,500 TA activities TA activities at all geographic regions,most commonly at the national level,transcending geographic barriers3,639 students received CE, resulting in 977.5 hours of course work.57 products were developed by DL grantees, including 35 online modules and 9 peer reviewed publications.

http://www.mchb.hrsa.gov/training/projects.asp?program=7

Appropriate Use of Social MediaUse When: E-mail,

ListservesTeleconference, Web Conference

Web Site

Blogs, Twitter

Facebook, MySpace

Group is large or dispersed

Info distribution is the primary need

Asynchronous interaction required

“Small bites” of info, interaction

Feedback requires careful thought

Social Media Resources

Health Information Group:New Media PrimerDistance Learning Toolkithttp://healthinfogroup.org

Social Media Resources

HHS Center for New Media

“The Mother Load”

http://newmedia.hhs.gov

Social Media Resources

Thank you!

Contact us

Spotlight Communications, Inc.www.spotlightcommunications.netP. (617) 423-0040E. tomeeka@spotlightcommunications.net

MCH Library and Health Information Groupwww.mchlibrary.org and

www.healthinfogroup.orgP. (877) MCH-1935E. MCHgroup@georgetown.edu

Questions?

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we can continue to improve

An archive of this presentation will be available in approximately two (2)

weeks at:

www.learning.mchb.hrsa.gov

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