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Successful Social Media Disengagement for Teachers

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Here are seven tips on successful social media disengagement to help you stay happy both at work and home: 1. If using Facebook, know your school or district’s policy on social media engagement. For example, here is the NYC DOE social media policy. Image courtesy Starr Sackstein, used with permission.

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Social Media: The Key to Transforming Doctor-Patient Communication

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Mom hat, jump online and feverishly Google their symptoms, you check social media to see if any of your friend’s children are sick. But what if you could connect with your doctor using social media ; asking for advice via a quick Twitter or Facebook message? If social media and blogs in the U.S

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On Social Media Bullies

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Have you come across a social media bully lately? And I’ve thought a lot about this before deciding that, in essence, people who behave like this are social media bullies. An active community is a powerful thing. Those are just a few of my personal examples, and I bet you have your own.

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Using Social Media For Sustainability: WiserEarth Does It, And Well

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So I’m using this post to showcase such a community that has been actively working around sustainability. As the name goes, WE is actively helping a global movement of people and organizations working toward social justice, indigenous rights, and environmental stewardship to connect, collaborate, share knowledge, and build alliances.

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Social Media: The Key to Transforming Doctor-Patient Communication [Redux]

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and will be particularly interesting to you if you work at the intersection of health care and social media. You put on your Dr. Mom hat, jump online and feverishly Google their symptoms, you check social media to see if any of your friend’s children are sick. If social media and blogs in the U.S

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Employee Evangelists: Your Secret Social PR Weapon in a Crisis

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Social media has redefined crisis response in three important ways: outlet options, messaging speed and employee engagement. The proliferation of new media outlets has changed everything about how companies communicate. Here’s an example touting Colorado Gives Day. Guest Post by Laurel Kennedy. A Reason to Speak.

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State of Crisis Communications and Social Media from a Professor’s Perspective

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Social media and crisis communications has become one of the fastest growing areas of both practice and research for today’s communication landscape. Additionally, “over half of respondents (52%) feel that the benefits of using social media as a crisis communications tool outweigh the risks” (page 4).