Monday, February 20, 2017
Social Media to Enhance the 2017 Annual Assembly
by Christian Sinclair
The Annual Assembly of AAHPM and HPNA is right around the corner and if you are going to Phoenix, or staying home to keep things running smoothly, social media can help make your conference experience be transformative. Since 2009, the Assembly has been making use of Twitter to provide additional insight, commentary and sources for the multiple sessions each day. Now things are expanding to dedicated conference apps, Facebook and Instagram. And for the first year ever we have Twitter contests.
The official hashtag of the conference: #hpm17 (works on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram), use it in every tweet this week! To make it easy to include the hashtag in every Tweet, you can sign in to Tweetchat.com or tchat.io on your tablet or desktop. (Are you wondering why the hashtag for our interprofessional field/assembly is #hpm and not #hpc? Read more here.)
Pallimed Network Accounts
- Twitter (@pallimed) - run by Allie Shukraft, Kristi Newport and Christian Sinclair during the conference
- Twitter (@hpmchat) - run by Lori Ruder and Ashley Deringer during the conference
- Facebook - run by Megan Mooney-Sipe
- Facebook event page (unofficial) - Team effort
- Facebook event page (#HPMparty) - Team effort with GeriPal
- Instagram (@pallimedblog) - run by Christian Sinclair, with behind-the-scenes looks using Instagram Stories
- Website
American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine:
Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association:
Social Work Hospice and Palliative Care Network (Not part of the Assembly, but having a conference right before)
