Posts Tagged ‘birth’
Twitter Chat #26: Managing Conflict and Dissent NEW DATE
As you may know, we rescheduled this chat out of respect for the tragedy in Boston. We have set the new date and time for this Friday. Please join us! You’re invited to the monthly BirthGenius Twitter chat! Friday April 26th, at 1:30 pm ET (NEW date and time) This month’s topic: Conflict and dissent are…
Read MoreSupporting Birth & Breastfeeding Research
Here’s three opportunities to use your social media networks to pay it forward! Help these amazing researchers get the data they need to tell us all more about birth and breastfeeding. Please share each of these with your birth and breastfeeding communities. How does evidence-based information about pregnancy and birth get shared online? We are…
Read MoreTwitter Chat #25: Birth and Breastfeeding Blogging
You’re invited to the monthly BirthGenius Twitter chat! This Friday, at 1 pm ET (NEW day and time) This month’s topic: All things birth and breastfeeding blogging! Because how we talk about birth and breastfeeding matters. Guest facilitator! We’ll be joined by Robin Kaplan, a breastfeeding blogger for the San Diego Breastfeeding Center, the host/producer for the Boob Group, and…
Read MoreIs Social Media Like Birth? How Birth & Breastfeeding Pros Need to Lean In
You may have seen this video before. It’s just over four minutes long. I’ll wait while you watch. Two things strike me when I watch this video through a maternal health lens. 1) It’s jarring and even a little scary. 2) What the heck does this have to do with healthy women and infants? Let’s…
Read MoreWhy we love Preggie Pals & The Boob Group
Ok, so we admit it: we are biased. First, we love Robin Kaplan, IBCLC, the host of the Boob Group podcast and owner of the San Diego Breastfeeding Center. She’s *so* committed to meetings moms where they are at. Second, we’re now contributors to the Preggie Pals online…
Read MoreTips For Making The Most Of Social Media At Birth And Breastfeeding Conferences
Getting ready to attend a conference and want to spread information and build your presence in the birth and breastfeeding community? Go visual. Get out that iPhone and start taking pictures. Or consider a quick video. Including a picture or video with your written nugget of conference genius will significantly increase the likelihood it will…
Read MoreNine Birth and Breastfeeding Photos That Tell A Story
In our post on improving the impact of photography on your website, blog, and social media campaigns, we talk about the importance of using images that tell a story. Here’s nine examples from the birth and breastfeeding world – mostly by amateurs or using bartered pro photographers – to ignite your creativity about your images:…
Read MoreNine Tips for High-Impact Photography
I started my morning by laughing out loud at this post on unfortunate stock photography from HubSpot. I’ve been hearing lots of photo chatter lately. Some positive – like our friend Amber McCann’s shoutout to Patrice Jones’s new website. The photography is what makes Patrice’s site *sing*. I can immediately tell…
Read MoreHelp Develop New Tools For Informed Consent
Researchers from the Maternal Quality Indicators Work Group are looking for mothers who are currently pregnant and planning a cesarean birth to complete a quick survey. The goal of this phase of the study is to better understand what matters most to women about their care during pregnancy and birth, who they trust when seeking information and…
Read MoreWelcome to Twitter, Birth Pro!
Hello Birth Professional! We are *so* glad to see you here. Maybe you’ve been on Twitter for awhile and are just setting up your professional account. Or maybe you are touching your toes into this social media platform for the very first time. Either way, we really need you and your genius in the twittersphere. More…
Read MoreFive Ways Social Media Mavens Are Bringing Evidence-Based Excellence To The Masses, And You Can Too.
There’s a tipping point coming in birth. I can feel it – and I’ve been reading others who are sensing it, too. One of the omens? The growing body of accessible, readable, appealing, *and* evidence based information for women. I’ve read a lot about birth. And breastfeeding. A whole lot, because it is my job…
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