Welcome to the SCAI Social Media Help Center!

You're invited to use this area to access SCAI’s Social Media Channels as well as updates on how healthcare providers are using social media to engage with one another, media, patients, and other partners in healthcare. Here you’ll find:

• Words of Wisdom for Using Social Media, from a Twitter Guru
• Interventional Cardiology & Social Media Video Series
• Stay in Touch with SCAI
• Links You’ll Love
  
• Acknowledgments
  

Words of Wisdom for Using Social Media, from a Twitter Guru

Watch as long-time Twitter user Christian Assad-Kottner, MD, defines the most important rule for using social media. This is need-to-know info for healthcare professionals getting active in any social medium.

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Interventional Cardiology & Social Media Video Series

A great place to get started is with SCAI’s ongoing Interventional Cardiology & Social Media video series. Click below to watch each segment on your own schedule.

• Part 1:  Why Social Media?
• Part 2:  Why Tweet?
• Part 3:  Twitter Best Practices: Guidelines for Healthcare Providers
• Part 4:  How to Set Up a Twitter Account
• Part 5:  Basic Twitter Activity:  Whom to Follow; How to Tweet, Retweet and Modify Tweets; How to Reply and Direct Message
• Part 6:  How to Develop a Following on Twitter
• Part 7:  How Twitter Will Enhance Your SCAI Experience?

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Stay in Touch with SCAI

• On Twitter, follow @SCAI for updates on SCAI programs and curated headlines from the media.
• Also on Twitter, share @SecondsCountorg with patients. Here we highlight newsworthy information about cardiovascular health, ranging from prevention through treatment, and everything in between.
• On LinkedIn, network with your colleagues and join in on discussions about topics affecting the future of interventional cardiovascular medicine.
• Don’t miss SCAI TV for video “shorts” on topics that affect your practice and your patients.
• For YouTube fans, SecondsCount’s playlist is rapidly expanding with new videos on topics of interest to healthcare consumers of all ages.
• On Facebook, follow SecondsCount.org to stay current with new posts on SCAI’s public education website.

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Links You’ll Love

• Eye on Intervention blog – hosted by Healio/Cardiology Today with blog posts by SCAI members
• Alliance of Specialty Medicine –SCAI is an active member of this advocacy coalition

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Acknowledgments

SCAI developed the Social Media Help Center with its own resources as well as support from Abbott Vascular, Boston Scientific Corporation and Medtronic CardioVascular. The Society gratefully acknowledges this support while taking sole responsibility for all content developed and disseminated through this effort.

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