Social Media for EMS
The Social Media for EMS topic includes news about how social media is impacting EMS, as well as analysis into how to use social media safely to demonstrate value to your community, while avoiding the mistakes that could land you – and your agency – in hot water.
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Communications from public safety agencies can be a source of reassurance during this perilous time
Here are some ways to switch up the content on your EMS agency’s social media pages to keep your audience engaged
Six tips for using social media for disaster communications
Followed by television and local radio, the internet is the third most popular way for people to gather emergency information
Social media tools allow you to connect with your fellow attendees and maximize your conference experience
Experts: social media could help emergencies to be handled in a “quicker, more co-ordinated, effective way”
How you respond to social media mistakes matters, especially when you are in the public’s eye as a trusted source of information
The Champions, Texas, resident is launching EMSpal, an online service for coordinating ambulance transports
We can recognize our responders and celebrate their victories every day using the tools of social media
Session outlines a number of potential risks and opportunities inherent in the use of social media by EMS and fire departments
Volunteer EMS departments can learn from the best practices of towns and businesses
Recent events in Egypt showed two very different attitudes toward social media — one that embraced the technology, and one that ignored it
It’s the public’s right to record events if they occur in plain sight, no matter how irritating that can be.
You have to communicate daily to your followers, with interesting and timely messages, or you’ll lose them quickly
Bill would make it a felony for an on-duty responder to take a picture, video of a crime scene for private use
Mark Musarella is barred from ever working as a medic
A paramedic is under investigation for allegedly posting a patient’s incident report on Facebook because it contained the word ‘retard’
Departments should proactively and aggressively review their employment policies in light of a recent NLRB complaint against EMS provider
Veteran firefighter’s postings deemed a violation of department conduct
Responders need to be aware there are some additional circumstances that could result in accidentally disclosing confidential information
AMR agreed to change its Internet policy that barred workers from disparaging the company or supervisors
The NLRB in October took the unprecedented move of filing a formal complaint against AMR for allgedly firing a woman because of her Facebook posts
Judge ruled the veteran EMS lieutenant should lose his job over a post which displayed a patient’s personal medical information
One photo showed a line of the South East Coast Ambulance Trust staff in chairs doing a ‘conga’
A poorly drafted social media policy can create unexpected sources of liability
Prosecutors say Mark Musarella snapped a picture of a woman who had been strangled
Woman fired for her Facebook posts has prompted a first-of-its-kind legal case
A paramedic criticized her boss on Facebook when he asked her to respond to a customer complaint
Remember as an EMT or paramedic that there are always consequences to what you post on social media sites
One Twitter user posted: ‘Our ambulance is number six in line waiting outside A&E. There are another five en route. I’ll be here four hours yet’
