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    {"title" :"NIH Twitter Chats: Collaborations Multiply Successes","summary" : "Twitter Chat discussing anxiety, stress, and complementary health practices December 18, 2012","date" : "2013-05-10T09:06:27-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"lnelson" : "Lisa Nelson"},"topics" : {
        
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      "editpathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/edit/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2013/05/2013-05-10-nih-twitter-chats-collaborations-multiply-successes.md","slug" : "nih-twitter-chats-collaborations-multiply-successes","url" : "/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2013/05/10/nih-twitter-chats-collaborations-multiply-successes/","content" :"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2014/01/NLM-twitter-chat.jpg\"\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"image\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg\n    src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2014/01/NLM-twitter-chat-250x140.jpg\"\n    alt=\"People meeting around a conference table.\"/\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\u003c/a\u003eIn helping support the social media team at the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH),  we have been hosting monthly \u003ca href=\"http://nccam.nih.gov/news/events/twitterchat?nav=gsa\"\u003eTwitter Chats\u003c/a\u003e since March 2012. The topics of these chats have covered a wide variety of complementary health approaches including:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYoga\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMeditation\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcupuncture\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDietary supplements\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n  Over the past six months, our Twitter Chat program has evolved to include partnerships with other NIH Institutes and Centers on topics that overlap with their research portfolios.\n\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n  Regardless of whether your organization has hosted or participated in one chat or twenty, thinking about potential partnerships as you plan your social media event is an important way to strengthen ties within your virtual—and concrete—communities.\n\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n  In December 2012, we co-hosted a chat on  stress and anxiety with  the National Institute of Mental Health. By the numbers, the partnership led to one of our most successful chats to date with 10,626,725 impressions and reaching 1,039,465 people. Its success could also be gauged by the chat’s overall activity, as participants retweeted information, asked questions, and shared resources.\n\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n  In February 2013 for heart health month, we collaborated with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute on a chat about \u003ca href=\"http://storify.com/NCCAM/nccam-high-cholesterol-twitter-chat\"\u003ehigh cholesterol, \u003c/a\u003e and in April, we hosted a chat on \u003ca href=\"http://storify.com/NCCAM/nccam-seasonal-allergies-twitter-chat\"\u003eseasonal allergies\u003c/a\u003e with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.\n\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n  These collaborations have really been helpful for building ties within the NIH community as well as for  disseminating messages across audiences. In addition, these chats share evidence-based information about complementary therapies, and about the disease or condition.  Content experts from both organizations, generally researchers and health professionals, participated in crafting scripts prior to the chat and responding to questions during the event.  Each organization could take the lead within their sphere of expertise.  In addition, the messages were amplified by the participation of Twitter followers from both organizations.\n\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n  For more information:\n\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n  \u003ca title=\"Twitter Chat Guidance for Federal Agencies\" href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2013/10/16/twitter-chats-for-federal-agencies/\"\u003eTwitter Chat Guidance for Federal Agencies\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy guest blogger \u003cstrong\u003eYasmine Kloth\u003c/strong\u003e, Digital and Social Media Strategist, working with the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.\u003c/p\u003e\n"}
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