Posts Tagged ‘social media’
Is 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 MoreBirthGenius Chat #21: Making The Complicated Go Social
Join Birth and Breastfeeding Professionals You’re invited to the monthly BirthGenius Twitter chat! Tuesday, April 17th, at 1:30pm ET If Twitter = 140 characters and Facebook = 420 (ok, now it is actually 63206, but shorter posts tend to have more reach) then how do we use these and other pivotal platforms to communicate the…
Read MoreGuest Post: Amber McCann on Timeline for Facebook Pages
Editor’s Note: I (Jeanette) just had the pleasure and honor of meeting Amber McCann face-to-face at the LCinPP conference. She’s one of our top go-to-girls for social media in the breastfeeding world. We asked her to share her insights on the coming Facebook changes – here’s her take on making the most of this important…
Read MoreGet Karen to Haiti: A Grassroots Fundraiser for Safer Births
Ensuring Safe Births During Unsafe Times When disasters strike – like the earthquake in Haiti, Sri Lanka’s tsunami, or hurricane Katrina – emergency tents are set up and medical aid rushes in. What we at BirthSwell recently learned, though, is that the need for reproductive health care – including basic care for women in the…
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