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The Iowa Health & Social Media Conference 

The Iowa Health & Social Media Conference is held every year in June and offers healthcare professionals tools and resources to help boost their social media presence online in order to better serve the people that they work with.

Below are resources from the 2015 Iowa Health & Social Media Conference. Find a recap of the day's discussion on social media here. 

Keep the Discussion Going


Participate in an upcoming Iowa Health & Social Media Roundtable for beginner and intermediate/advanced social media users. These tele/web conferences are designed to continue the discussions started at the conference and give public health and other health professionals a place to ask questions, get answers, and share ideas and resources. More information can be found here. 

And continue use #IAHSM15 to interact online!

Conference Presentations

Screenshot of Cody Shafer's presentation on "Rethinking the Role of Social Media in Health Outreach." Click here to access the slides.

Rethinking the Role of Social Media in Health Outreach
Cody J. Shafer, Johnson County Public Health
 

Screenshot of title page of Kristin Webb's presentation "The Bed is Dead: Social Media Campaign to Reduce Teen Indoor Tanning." Click here to access the slides.

Screenshot of title page of Kristin Neemann and Kristin Webb's presentation "Can Anyone Hear Me? How to Enhance Audience Engagement." Click here to access the slides.

Can Anyone Hear Me? How to Enhance Audience Engagement
Kristin Neemann & Kristin Webb, Emspace Group


Guide to Launching a Social Media Campaign
This document includes tips, links, and resources referenced by conference presenter Callen Borbon-Úbeda of Project of Primary Health Care and Project HIM.

 

Additional Resources

 
Image of Emspace Group's Top Ten Social Media Takeaways. Click here to access the document.   Top 10 Social Media Takeaways
Emspace Group
 


Image of #TheBedIsDead campaign ad. Click here to access their website.


The Bed is Dead campaign designed by Emspace Group for the Nebraska Cancer Coalition includes a social media toolkit that can be used by others to duplicate the project. Find the toolkit here.
 
 
Image of clipart book.  
Recommended reading from Cody Shafer, Johnson County Public Health:

 



Screenshot of title page of Kelly Sittig's presentation "Twitter 101." Click here to access the recording.

Twitter 101 webinar recording
Kelly Sittig, Iowa Cancer Consortium
Originally recorded on December 11, 2013
 


Screenshot of the Iowa Cancer Consortium's May 2015 Social Media Messages about Skin Cancer Awareness Month. Click here to access the document.

Social Media Toolkits
These pre-written social media message sets from the Iowa Cancer Consortium are in a downloadable Word document, so sharing the messages is a simple as copying and pasting. The messages are appropriate for individuals, businesses, and organizations, and cover tobacco, radon, physical activity, nutrition, and other cancer prevention and control topics. 

 
www.pewinternet.org
From the Pew Research Center, www.pewinternet.org provides nonpartisan data and reports about social media, internet, and technology use in the United States. 
 

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