Tag: social media
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A record breaking post – thoughts on its success
A couple of months ago I had a record breaking Facebook post. It was ridiculously successful, certainly the biggest post for Time to Change, but I was at a conference a little while ago and Oxfam were talking about their biggest ever post reaching 5 million people. Ours was 8.2 million, suggesting we might have beaten them too… I’m…
digitalbecca
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Why we shouldn’t use trigger warnings
I had to do something I really disagree with today and it’s something I truly believe puts people in danger. I posted an article containing triggering images about anxiety, with a warning for people not to look if they were likely to be triggered by them. Shortly after I posted it, we had a comment…
digitalbecca
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Samaritans Radar: it’s about more than privacy
Today the Samaritans launched a Twitter app designed, essentially, to help stop people in mental health crisis from slipping through the digital net. As the charity relies almost entirely on volunteers, and as suicide remains one of the UK’s biggest killers, I can certainly see why they might commission a project which monitors people’s tweets…
digitalbecca
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What’s wrong with irresponsible reporting around suicide
Yesterday the world received the sad news that Robin Williams had taken his own life after struggling with addiction and depression for many years. Despite its prevalence, depression is still a much misunderstood illness and mental health organisations, along with their supporters, fight hard to ensure it has parity of esteem with physical health conditions.…
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Three problems with the no makeup selfies for cancer
A month on and there’s no denying the success, in fundraising terms, of the no makeup selfies for cancer. They raised millions for Cancer Research UK, the first to spot their potential and channel participants to a text giving account. The campaign ticked all the boxes for creating sharable content – it was image based,…
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