The National Healthy Housing Center (NCHH) is hosting a
National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week-themed Twitter chat (
#NLPPWchat) exchange ideas, spread awareness, and take action on lead poisoning prevention and response policies.
The
#NLPPWchat aims to:
- Discuss lead poisoning prevention and response.
- Raise awareness about the sources of lead exposure.
- Share helpful initiatives, policies, and resources.
NLPPW partners, please:
- Participate in the live chat on October 26 from 3-4 p.m. ET (12-1 p.m. PT).
- Help promote #NLPPWchat widely to your followers, members, and partners to ensure broad participation.
To participate, follow along using the
#NLPPWchat hashtag and share your thoughts and ideas on policies and practices to address housing health issues and response. Follow along using the
#NLPPWchat hashtag and share your thoughts and ideas on policies and practices to address housing health issues and response.
Be sure to include #NLPPWchat in your tweets so that the chat participants can easily follow you and others during this event.Promote the chat widely for maximum participation! Follow
@NCHH and retweet our Twitter chat promotions during the days leading up to the chat. The more that people see the chat, the more people tune in to read what you have to say, and the more this community can accomplish toward making safe, healthy homes a reality for all Americans.
As a public health advocate, you have an excellent opportunity to highlight some of your exciting initiatives and projects! Use the
#NLPPWchat questions to formulate your answers to the questions we’ll be posting here soon.
(
Update: The questions are now available at
https://bit.ly/NLPPWchatQuestions. Note that the questions may download immediately and that you may have to approve the download on your computer. If you're not able to access the questions, please send a blank email to Christopher Bloom,
cbloom@nchh.org, with "Chat Questions" in the subject line, and we'll email them to you right away.)
Have a Conflict? If you’re scheduled to be elsewhere but would still like to participate, you have options. It’s okay to join the chat late. As long as you’ve identified which answers correspond to what questions, the audience will figure everything out. Another option is to pre-schedule your tweets using TweetDeck, Hootsuite, or other tweet/post management service.
Format Your Tweets When writing your tweets, be sure to remember these tips:
- Include the hashtag #NLPPWchat in all your tweets.
- Start your answers with A1, A2, A3, et cetera, to correspond to the question number.
- You have only 280 characters per tweet, including spaces and links (note that links on Twitter always use 23 characters, regardless of their actual length), but you’re not limited to one tweet per answer to a question. You may also use A1a, A1b, A1c, and so on, to indicate a multipart answer or multiple responses to a given question.
- Use links to your website, programs, initiatives, and partners in your tweets! Promote the good work that you, your community, or your organization does! (Note that links on Twitter use 23 characters, regardless of their actual length.)
- Where space permits, we also recommend including one or more
