12. Sample Guidelines…
• Be respectful, treat social media like real life
• Do NOT talk about your patients online ever
• Do NOT take photos/videos of or near patients or anything
with patient identifiers on it
• Don’t friend patients!
• Don’t endorse people or products (especially in Medical
field)
24. Lists
• Organize friends for filtering stories you see or
who sees your updates
• Newsfeed > Friends > Create List
• Examples: Family, Work, Spanish
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27. Starting with Twitter terms…
Tweet: 140-character message
Follow: Subscribing to a user’s tweets
@: Symbol for usernames (handles) and links to
Twitter profile
# (Hashtag): Symbol for keywords/topics in a
tweet, used to connect and organize
31. Uses
• Quick answers
• Keep up with the news
• Keep up with favorite team
• Connect with others with similar interests
• Find out what people really think about latest movie
35. Best Practices
Do not auto-link Twitter with other platforms
No automated responses or DMs
Keep posts to 120 characters (room for RTs)
Casual language, abbreviations OK but spelling
and grammar still matter
Don’t forget it’s public
46. Best Practices
• Be careful of specific location check-ins.
• Know your privacy settings!
• Ensure any accounts have professional public profiles.
• Your present posts create your future background check.
• Use a headshot for your avatar
• Carefully craft your bio
• Choose links strategically (e.g., to LinkedIn account,
website)
• Get and stay organized with lists
• Balance broadcast with engagement
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What others say about us is naturally going to outweigh what we don’t say about ourselves.
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