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The use of social media to promote exercise advice and information to communities that are at risk of inactivityAnn GatesFounder of Exercise Works!

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Why social media for exercise?

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Facebook.com

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Twitter.com

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YouTube.com

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Why social media for exercise message? #trend

Increase the timely spread and potential impact of health and safety information

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Leverage audience networks to facilitate information sharing

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Expands reach to include broader, more diverse audiences

http://www.cdc.gov/socialmedia/tools/guidelines/pdf/socialmediatoolkit_bm.pdf

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Personalize and reinforce health messages that can be more easily tailored or

targeted to particular audiences

Royal College of Physicians. Action on obesity: comprehensive care for all. Report of a working party. London: RCP, 2013.

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The data show that in places where @Facebook users have more activity-related interests, there is a lower prevalence of obesity and overweight. They reveal how social media data can augment public health surveillance by giving public health researchers access to population-level information that they can't otherwise get.

Facebook may be a useful indicator for tracking obesity

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/259750.php

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Facilitate interactive communication, connection and public engagement

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Facilitate interactive communication, connection and public engagement

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Fancy a game of tennis?

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Facilitate interactive communication, connection and public engagement

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Suns out, fancy a walk?

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Empower people to make safer and healthier decisions

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Evidence for exercise as a medicine is indisputable!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUaInS6HIGo

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23 1/2 Hours Arabic translationYouTube Viral spread timeline

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Arabic translation!

Arabic translation reached YouTubeGlobal weekly Top 10

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Age range of male/femaleviewing figures

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English version

Saudi Arabia viewing figures for English versionAdd on effects to other health messages

Arabic version

Reproduced by permission of Dr Mike Evans

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Arabic version predominantly via Facebook Interesting as launch was predominantly via @Twitter Faster than English version spread initially!

English version significantly spread via Facebook despite extensive use of @Twitter via @Exerciseworks?!

Sharing characteristics via social media

Interesting to know social media preferenceswhen sending out health messages!

Source: Youtube analytics

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Viral social media spread of important

health messages works!Specific targeted viral media campaigns need to

ask ‘Tick this box if this video will change your behaviour to exercise’

If we use the same methods as we have always done, then inactivity will still be a global problem!

will revolutionise the way we deliver and implement key health messages around physical activity!

Take home messages

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This would be so much easier via YouTube

@Twitter or Facebook!

This would be so much easier via YouTube

@Twitter or Facebook! Guess I better

exercise then!

Guess I better

exercise then!

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Ann GatesFounder of Exercise Works!

Exercise-Works Ltd

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