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Use of Social Media in Public Health and the Onsite Sewage Industry

Merriam Webster’s DefinitionSocial Media \s -sh l m -d - \ō ə ē ē ə

forms of electronic communication (as web sites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (as videos)

Social MediaSocial Media

What’s in it for you??What’s in it for you??

Getting to know you…

How many of you use:

• E-mail?

• facebook?

• twitter?

• Linkedin?

• Over 800 million active users

• Over 300 million access through mobile devices

• Huge network of useful (and not so useful) information available 24/7

Sign Up or Log In

Personal Account

Organization Page

Groups- OEHA

Groups- NOWRA

Onsite Pages

Ohio Onsite Wastewater Association

Onsite Installer Magazine

Minnesota Onsite Wastewater Association

Wastewater Education

Students of Agronomy, Soils and Environmental Sciences

Soil Science Society of America

Bio Microbics

Infiltrator Systems

Environmental/Public Health Pages

National Environmental Health Association

Ohio Department of Health

Williams County Health Department

Columbus Public Health

Wyandot County Health Department

Union County Health Department

Sandusky County Health Department

Hamilton County Health Department

Fulton County Health Department

Columbus Public Health- News Feed

Columbus Public Health- Photos

Wyandot County Health Department- Interactive

Wrap-up

Existing large network of users

Some information available will benefit you professionally

Valuable venue to communicate with constituents

• Over 465 million accounts (107 M in US)

• Adding 1 million accounts daily

• 175 million “tweets” every day

• 140 character limit means updates must be concise

Tweet- an update posted to your twitter profile

Re-tweet- someone else’s 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

Speaking the Language

Sign Up or Log In

Home Page (Timeline)

Composing a Tweet

Using Hastags (#)

Hashtag Search

Re-tweeting

@ mention

Ohio Onsite Wastewater Association @ohioonsite

Pumper Magazine @pumpermag

Netafim USA @NetafimUSA

SJE Rhombus @SJERhombus

American Liquid Waste Magazine @ALWMag

Anua @Anua_US

Infiltrator Systems, Inc. @infiltrator

Onsite Installer Magazine @onsiteinstaller

Onsite Accounts

Ohio Environmental Health Association @ohioeha

National Environmental Health Association @nehaorg

World Health Organization @WHO

Ohio Department of Health @OHdeptofhealth

Ohio EPA @OhioEPA

Hamilton County Public Health @HamCoHealth

Lake County Health District @LCHealthDist

Miami County Public Health @MiamiCountyPH

Environmental/Public Health Accounts

Existing large network of users (smaller than facebook)

Easy to share links to large volumes of information

Valuable venue to communicate with colleagues

Benefits

• World’s largest professional network (over 150 million members worldwide)

• New members joining at a rate of over 2 per second

• Members share information in more than 1 million groups

• Allows “twitter style” information sharing, along with an online resume

Network of PROFESSIONAL users

Share information with professionals in your field

Showcase your skills and qualifications for potential employers

Benefits

How do I manage all of this?!?

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

Social Media “Dashboards”TweetDeck

Social Media “Dashboards”Seesmic

Social Media “Dashboards”

HootSuite

Share information with millions of users

Drive traffic to your website

Employer permission/social media policy

Guard personal information closely

Communicate in a professional manner

A few things to remember…

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

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

@jmenchhofer

Find this presentation online at:http://www.slideshare.net/jmenchhofer

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