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RE: Facebook

Beth_H — Wed, 21 Oct 2015 15:05:31 GMT

If you are posting about diseases in areas, please would you consider sharing our website/Facebook page (SAVSNET). SAVSNET is a joint partnership between BSAVA and University of Liverpool, and we collect data from veterinary practices who are signed up. On the realtime page, http://www.savsnet.co.uk/realtimedata/, there is interactive data available where you can look at disease incidence in different areas.

Thanks ever so much,

Beth

RE: Facebook

Chippet — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 17:51:46 GMT

I do ours too - quite proud of it actually, we've just short of 1500 likes.

Cute pics, interesting cases, 'guess what this is', offers, give clients pets the chance to be your profile pic (very popular in our experience), we do a 'Pet of the Month' in practice, so this goes on too.

We get verbal Consent from our clients, but going to add a tick box onto the Consent form. Never had anyone say they don't want us to use their pets photos - they love it!

RE: Facebook

lskm 23 — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 18:02:50 GMT

We used to pay someone to do our Facebook page but have stopped it as found clients prefer what we post directly. How do you go about using funny pictures from the internet without breaching copyright? The company that did it for us appeared just to include the web page they had taken it from. Is it ok to do this?

Thanks

Re: Facebook

Clare Ball — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 16:23:12 GMT

We are currently running a photo competition for our clients on our facebook page with most likes winning £35 credit on their account. It has upped our likes quite a bit and had quite a bit of interest. I also share pictures of our patients (with owner permission) and good stories but tend to steer clear of memes and stuff as I don't feel they are relevant to our practice. I will share local stories though.

Re: Facebook

jojofruits — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 16:07:46 GMT

On your consent form include a tick box if they do not want social m edia

should aim for 2-3 posts per day.. 2 funnies and a story about the practice .. should be fun, upbeat and shareable .. nothing rude, nothing close to the line .. remember the public do not have the same sense of humour as we do!

Storiss about the practice should be .. here is " jo" holding the gorgeous " Fluffy" who has been poorly .. not too much detail .. plenty of cute factor.

keep away from gruesome pics, but pics of interesting non gruesome things like xrays of balls in stomachs etc are always good...

lastly chuck in a promotion - but only rarely.. people dont gto on facebook to be sold things.. but they do like feelgood stuff that will keep your practice at the forefront of their mind x .., hope that helps xxx

Re: Facebook

fairy — Sun, 05 Oct 2014 11:18:41 GMT

We have separate consent forms asking permission for photographs to be used for media and promotion purposes. We don't ever write the name of the animal either.

Re: Facebook

Steph Smith BSc(hons) RVN — Sun, 05 Oct 2014 11:03:44 GMT

Wondering how other practices are obtaining owner consent for taking/posting photos of their pets on Facebook and sharing details on the animal's condition etc? I was thinking of adding something onto the consent form but not sure how to word it.

Re: Facebook

Chippet — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 10:24:49 GMT

Thanks everyone. I'm determined to up our likes :)

Re: Facebook

Ben Ogden — Tue, 16 Sep 2014 16:38:49 GMT

Have a look at the page I do for my practice, https://www.facebook.com/aireworthvets. From experience, practice interest stories generate a lot of views, but the most viral activity in the local area I get is for lost or found pets, people love a re uniting.

Re: Facebook

Nicola Smith — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 21:01:34 GMT

We put on interesting cases and things the staff are doing but the cute baby animal pics always go down best!!

Re: Facebook

Elerrina — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 19:44:28 GMT

With our facebook page at work we do stories of interesting cases we've had in, cute pictures of animals that come in for consults. Warnings about illnesses in the area, post lost and found animals on there. People love that kind of thing shows more community spirit and that you're willing to help. Also animal related memes and all that kind of thing.