by Kristy | Mar 29, 2014 | Twitter
Are you planning an event or conference? Here’s all you need to know about how to have participants and presenters disseminating and networking using Twitter. PS. This applies to any virtual events and webinars too, not just live events. Why? Tweeting at conferences...
by Kristy | Dec 11, 2013 | Health promotion
Health promotion has oft reflected that it needs to get better at talking outwardly, promoting its relevance to society and the bottom line of the government. However, it dawned on me recently that we also need to think about how health promoters, AKA health promotion...
by Kristy | Nov 27, 2013 | Marketing and advertising
I like to think of myself as reasonably media literate with a pretty good bullsh!t detector for marketing ploys. I mean, I have a Master of Public Health and I watch the Gruen Transfer every week, that pretty much makes me an expert right? This year I was...
by Kristy | Aug 1, 2013 | Social media
At one of my first speaking engagements on social media and health promotion I was asked this question: So, how can we make something go viral? Even the concept of making something go viral makes me chuckle when thinking about social media and health promotion as...
by Kristy | Jun 30, 2013 | Open data
The Zockmelon team are big fans of The Apprentice UK, the version with the gruff-but-with-a-heart-of-gold Lord Alan Sugar. On the reality show, contestants work in teams bickering and sorting out their pecking orders in order to achieve something that would normally...