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#hcsmSA – Analysing a Tweet chat during World Antibiotic Awareness Week
19
Nov

Overview A Twitter chat took place on the 15th of November 2018 at 20:30 SAST | 13:30 EST | 18:30 BST | 20:30 CAT to discuss achieving the Antimicrobial Resistance Strategic Goals for Africa. The chat session was moderated on behalf of the South African Antibiotic Stewardship Programme (SAASP) by the Twitter handle @hcsmSA and participants […]

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Composing effective tweets for healthcare social media and good digital citizenship
11
Oct

Why does your tweet matter to healthcare? Everything on the web accumulates data even on social media platforms like Twitter. Twitter is categorised as an online microblogging system within the web 2.0 ecosystem that enables users to send and read short 280-character posts called “tweets” as demonstrated in the Conversation Prism which is a visual map […]

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How to hashtag healthcare geographically on social media
22
Jul

How to hashtag healthcare geographically on social media As far as social media in the South African healthcare industry goes, more users are emerging by the day. The issue we still face locally is the effective use of hashtags. hcsmSA is an acronym for Health Care Communications and Social Media South Africa and is one […]

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