Health care tweet chats 101: Everything you need to know

Posted on February 9th, 2012 by Admin

The Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media and Ragan Communications will bring you the second webinar of their 2012 series on Tuesday, Feb. 14, when Lisa Fields presents "Health care tweet chats 101: Everything you need to know."

Lisa, founder of Lisa Fields and Associates, is a presenter, designer, and creative thinker who connects energy, innovation, and practical wisdom. She's active in the #hcsm community and participates in chats internationally on health care, such as #hcsmeu and #hcsmanz.

In this webinar, which runs from 2-3:15 p.m. CST on Feb. 14, Lisa will discuss why busy health care professionals need to carve out an hour a week to join a health care Twitter chat. During this webinar, you’ll get dozens of great tips about how to make valuable, re-tweetable contributions to an influential health care Twitter chat.

You'll also:

Explore the structure of a Twitter chat and how to participate
Research health care tweet chat sites to find one that fits your needs
Learn tweet chat etiquette and find out the best ways to connect with others
Discover the most valuable people to follow on Twitter
Use tools to find health care tweet chat schedules, transcripts and analytics
Become familiar with the abbreviations RT, MT and others
Learn how to start your own hashtag

Twitter chats let you develop professional relationships with leaders and trusted authorities in health care all over the globe. This webinar is for health care and hospital communicators who want to contribute to a tweet chat and find out which one works best in their schedule.

The webinar registration is free for members of Mayo Clinic’s Social Media Health Network. For information on how your organization can join the network, click here.

Non-members may register for the webinar here on the Ragan site.

You can also follow the discussion Feb. 14th on Twitter using #healthwebs.

And if you don't know how to do that, it's all the more reason why you need to join us for the webinar!

Tags: #healthwebs, #mayoragan, Lisa Fields, Ragan Communications, tweet chat, twitter chat, Webinar