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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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
Ego, tradition, indifference and bad judgment can allow inappropriate behaviors to become normalized
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’
Red Cross report shows Americans have high expectations of first responders
Tweet read: ‘I’ve had a serious injury and NEED Help! Can someone please call Winding Trails in Farmington, CT tell them I’m stuck bike crash in woods’
David Forster has been disciplined after he attacked ‘lazy’ EMS workers on social media site
How to make sure your online activities do not interfere with your job as a paramedic or EMT at your agency
Hasty online reader comments prove two points: Everyone is an expert about somone else’s call and EMTs eat their own kind
Man took a picture of the computer screen in his ambulance that displays patient names and medical complaints and uploaded it to the social networking site
Alana Adams lost her job as a paramedic with the Wellington Free Ambulance Service after an altercation with a co-worker, part of which took place on Facebook
Newspaper probe unveils the serious — and sometimes fatal — mistakes made by ambulance crews in the region
Water temperature at around 49 degrees contributed to the number of emergencies, including 16 medical calls
A strong social network presence improves community perception, communication with personnel and emergency response
How to screencast with nine tips for EMS educators and training officers