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Social Media for Healthcare: What’s The Potential?

Melissa Agnes

The other day I had a conversation with someone who made a statement about the healthcare industry not needing to be on social media because no one cares about the nurses’ birthdays and little useless memes (I’m SOOO paraphrasing here!). What’s the point of social media for healthcare?

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Social Media Usage Skyrockets in Last Decade

The Proactive Report

Back in 2005 when Pew started tracking social media usage just 7% of adults where active on social networking sites. Over the years Pew has monitored how the rise of social media has affected our work, relationships and communication patterns and how these changes have affected business and politics.

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Reputation on social media – Comms must own it or lose it

NewsWhip

There’s rather a lot at stake: The new media ecosystem I referenced above means reputation can come under attack from almost anywhere – from angles and channels that didn’t exist even three years ago. So, how are communications professionals stepping up to the challenges of this new, wider media ecosystem?

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Instagram’s 10th birthday – does it really share love?

Stuart Bruce

Instagram launched on 6 October 2010. Lots of social media platforms … © Stuart Bruce - Instagram’s 10th birthday – does it really share love? was first published on Stuart Bruce's PR Futurist by Stuart Bruce - Modernising public relations and communications for the digital age.

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Conference Recap: Microsoft’s Frank X. Shaw on Thriving in the Next Communications Age

PRSay

Shaw, corporate vice president of communications at Microsoft, during the lunchtime keynote session Monday at the 2019 PRSA International Conference in San Diego. Digital and social media have created an experience that’s like “pumping static into a room. What can the media do to preserve trust and authority? Shaw asked.

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Pros and cons of being an adjunct professor in social media

Communications Conversations

The long answer: I started guest lecturing at Betsy Andersen’s class at UST way back in 2010 (or so, I can’t remember the exact year). Then, just a few months later, he informed me he was retiring and that UST was looking for someone to fill the social media class he was teaching. I instantly loved it.

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Quick Summaries to 5 Surveys of PR and Corporate Communications

Sword and the Script

CEOs and business leaders are increasingly recognizing the value of corporate communications; investors say comms can increase company valuations. This week I paused to catch up on reading several other PR and corporate communications surveys that I haven’t had a chance to read yet and summarize them here for you.

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