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TECHNOLOGY: SNAPCHAT INFLUENCERS, EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW

Compared to other social networks, Snapchat is, well, different. It doesn’t have the numbers that Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram do. The  2017 State of the Creator Economy Study  found that people who use Snapchat visit it about 55 times a month, compared to 101 times for Facebook. Still,  Snapchat Influencers  are some of the most powerful social media users online. This begs the question: How can your brand leverage them?

ROI Finds a Place on Snapchat

Snap has acquired Placed, a startup that tracks whether digital advertising campaigns successfully bring users into stores. The acquisition could help convince brands to return to Snapchat by providing more information about ROI, a metric that the platform has been missing.

Zika, Ebola Updates Provided at AIHce 2017

SEATTLE – Good news about two diseases that recently have caused concern in the United States and beyond came in a June 5 educational session here at the AIHce EXP conference. Those in attendance heard from three federal employees who updated them about Zika precautions for employers and employees and training modules on pathogens such as Ebola that have been created to help at-risk employee groups.

HEALTH: Tanzania: Songwe Scans Passengers for Ebola

Songwe International Airport (SIA) in the new Songwe Region has started to test passengers who enter the country through the airport for Ebola under the unit of emergency diseases. The Songwe Regional Health Officer, Mr Peter Alfred, has said that several health officers from the Regional Unit of Emergency Diseases have camped at the airport to test and unveil the passengers with Ebola symptoms.

WHO Responds to Ebola in Democratic Republic of the Congo

Coordination meetings for the deployed team take place first thing every morning and at the end of the working day. As dusk falls, all those involved in the response gather for a group debrief on the information that has been gathered by surveillance and treatment teams and results obtained

Public Funding of Approved Lung Cancer Treatments Needed Now

OTTAWA ,  June 7, 2017  /CNW/ - On behalf of patients living with lung cancer and their loved ones, the Canadian Cancer Survivor Network (CCSN) and Lung Cancer Canada (LCC) are calling on government and industry to help accelerate negotiations for public funding of Health Canada approved medications to ensure access for Canadian patients who urgently need them.