Yesterday I got a call from our local health department. They needed to beef up their social media presence in a hurry to proactively deal with all the questions surrounding swine influenza.
Twitter was the tool of choice for this sort of situation because of the ability to give real time updates about the disease to a large group of interested people. Now that they’re set up, people in northern Utah are proactively getting the most up to date information on swine flu. If you want in, follow @BearRiverHealth.