Greetings!

Happy New Year and welcome to our first newsletter of 2019!  To kick this year off, we are offering a brand new training!  If you ever feel daunted by the task of communicating your coalition or organization's message through a snapshot, or 280 characters, this social media webinar was made for you.  Come train with us and learn how to effectively utilize various social media platforms to convey your message to a wider audience.

Thanks to generous funding from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, our trainings are always free. 

UPCOMING TRAININGS
Content Planning for Social Media: Tips, Tools, and Overcoming Barriers  
Trainers: Tamaki West and Natalie Cashin, Health Resources in Action
February 26th, 2019
11:00 am -12:30 pm
Online Training

Topics: Content development across social media platforms; challenges in social media

Description:   Social media can be daunting, especially for small community groups, coalitions, and non-profits. This training will build off our past online trainings, "Communication Tips and Tools to Strengthen Your Impact" and "Leveraging Social Media in Your Work" that covered communication planning and social media engagement and will dive deeper into the ways you can communicate the work you do across various social media platforms. What kind of content works for Twitter? How can you adapt that for Facebook or a blog post? Participants will leave this training with a better idea of how to translate their message across social media platforms through best practices and case studies, and they will also get the opportunity to ask questions and present their own challenges in creating content for social media. Our trainers will provide tips, tools, and tricks for overcoming common social media challenges and empowering coalitions to create strategic online content.

Learning Objectives: Participants will be able to:
  1. Identify strategies for creating content across different platforms
  2. Define best practices for content planning
  3. Understand common social media challenges and ways to overcome them

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS!
SUBMIT YOUR NOMINATIONS FOR THIS YEAR'S OUNCE OF PREVENTION CONFERENCE! THE AWARDS ARE:

And save the date: Ounce of Prevention will be held on April 2nd, 2019, at the DCU Center in Worcester, MA.
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Sincerely, 

Daisy Ortega, Gina Rodriguez, and Kelly Danckert
Community Health Training Institute

P.S. If you are a member of an MA coalition, remember to update your coalition profile today!