by Kristy | Jul 6, 2016 | Online culture
By Shelley Ratcliffe Is Fitspiration all bad? Culture and community vs public health messaging A little bit about me… Hi everyone, my name is Shelley Ratcliffe and I’m a third year health science student, majoring in health promotion at Flinders...
by Kristy | Apr 21, 2016 | Social media
Are Anzac Day social media fails ‘Fresh in your Memories’? If you are reading our humble little blog, there’s a good chance you are not part of an Australian supermarket duopoly. Rather you are most likely a health or community-based service, small...
by Kristy | Feb 9, 2016 | Social media, Uncategorized
Huge thanks to Sarah Horwood, Online Manager, COPMI for sharing her insights with our blog readers. Background The Children of Parents with a Mental Illness (COPMI) national initiative promotes better outcomes for children who have a parent with a mental illness. We...
by Kristy | Nov 19, 2014 | Social media
By Rebecca Zosel, Health Promotion Advisor, Victorian Assisted Reproductive Treatment Authority (VARTA). I recently had the privilege of managing a national fertility awareness campaign, which gave me the opportunity to engage with social media more intimately than...
by Kristy | Nov 13, 2014 | Social media
Every day I read one or more recent articles, blog posts or stats about social media. Most of the time, these are written for businesses in mind who have different objectives than public health organisations. My job is to then translate social media tools and trends...
by Kristy | Sep 25, 2014 | Social media
We recently moved house. With two little kids. I can sense your sympathetic looks as you read this. Amid the chaos, I realised that not only do social media and health promotion have a lot in common, but so do social media and moving house. Here’s why: Both...
