Ben’s Friends to launch a monthly Twitter Chat
Ben’s Friends is proud to announce the launch of it’s new live Twitter chat. Each Twitter chat topic will run several times in a given month in order to ensure that each and every person in our global membership has at least one chance to participate. The goal of these chats is to encourage as much involvement as possible across all of Ben’s Friends 30+ rare disease communuties and amongst it’s over 18,000 members. In addition, it is open to anybody who wishes to participate and Ben’s Friends is keen to get as many folks involved as possible. Going forward, the plan is to run a monthly chat with a new topic and focus each month.
Ben Munoz, co-founder of Ben’s Friends, “We are very excited about the launch of our new monthly Twitter chat sessions. It will bring our rapidly growing organization closer and give each of our members a chance to share their thoughts, views and experiences to a broader audience and learn something at the same time. Also, it will help to get the word out about what we are doing and how we are helping improve the lives of so many people with rare diseases globally.”
The focus of this month’s Twitter chat will be:
How the rare disease online support communities of Ben’s Friends have helped me. The chat will be moderated by John Stamler from Ben’s Friends who has survived one rare disease and is living with another one.
Time and date of the live chats
Sunday, July 8, 2012 at 1pm Pacific Time, 4pm Eastern Time & 9pm UK Time
Sunday, July 8, 2012 at 1pm Pacific Time, 4pm Eastern Time & 9pm UK Time
Saturday, July 14, 2012 at 9am Pacific Time, Noon Eastern Time and 5pm UK Time
Monday, Aug 13, 2012 at 4pm Est/1pm Pacific time/9pm in the UK.
Sunday, Aug 26, 2012 at 11am Pacific time/2pmEastern/7pm UK time
Sunday, Aug 26, 2012 at 11am Pacific time/2pmEastern/7pm UK time
Sunday Sept 16 11am Pacific time/2pmEastern/7pm UK time
Wednesday Sept 26 4pm Est/1pm Pacific time/9pm UK time
Sunday Oct 14 4pm Est/1pm Pacific time/9pm UK time
Tuesday Oct 30 at 2pm Est/11am Pacific time/7pm UK time
Thursday December 13, 2012 2PM EST/11AM PST/ 7PM UK
Sunday December 30, 2012 1PM EST/10AM PST/ 6PM UK
How to Participate:
In order to be able to join in and follow along, Ben’s Friends recommends using www.tweetchat.com as an easy way to participate. You can sign in using your Twitter name/password, and enter the hashtag you’d like to follow (in this case #bensfriends). However, if you have your own method for Twitter chatting, you are welcome to use that as well. Please be sure to include the hashtag #bensfriends in each of your tweets so they will show up for everyone following the chat.
Twitter Help
For those of you who want to participate and do not have a twitter account, please follow the following links on how to create an account and get involved.
How to Sign Up http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJSoEbNxYKE&feature=relmfu
How to Tweet, Reply and Follow : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkdXJOpqXOw&feature=related
For those of you who want to participate and do not have a twitter account, please follow the following links on how to create an account and get involved.
How to Sign Up http://www.youtube.com/
How to Tweet, Reply and Follow : http://www.youtube.com/
Please e-mail us if you have any questions, comments and or concerns. info@bensfriends.org.
BensFriends.org is a mission-driven company dedicated to providing safe and supportive online communities for people affected by rare diseases. Founded by Ben Munoz in 2006 after suffering a stroke at age 29, BensFriends.org has a network of patient-to-patient communities and helps thousands of people around the world. For more information, visit BensFriends.org.
