Introduction to Ask SAMHSA!
19 January 2011
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Have a question about behavioral health; well here is your opportunity to Ask SAMHSA! The concept behind “Ask SAMHSA” is very similar to the White House’s First Question project. Every month we will be taking questions from you on a specific topic through Facebook and Twitter. From the questions we receive, we will select a few to respond to on the SAMHSA Blog over video. The purpose behind this project is to give you an opportunity to hear from some of the nation’s experts in behavioral health on questions that you have asked.
This is how it will work:
- Around the middle of every month we will select a topic and solicit questions through Facebook and Twitter.
- We will then review all of the questions and select a few to respond to.
- We will post a video response to the selected questions on our SAMHSA blog http://blog.samhsa.gov/
Be sure to keep a look out for us on Facebook and Twitter and submit your questions. When submitting questions on Twitter, please use the hashtag #BHQ.
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The purpose behind this project is to give you an opportunity to hear from some of the nation’s experts in behavioral health on questions that you have asked.
“Expert” is wildly thrown around, what, to you, qualifies someone as an “expert?”
Harold A. Maio
khmaio@earthlink.net
Ask SAMHSA has lots of promise for vital digital engagement with the lay public as well professionals.
Since it appears to be off to a slow start though(only 3 “questions” submitted and no responses in four months) perhaps some adjustments need to be made?
1) As a digital immigrant I am not on Twitter and don’t use Facebook much. Allow people like me to submit questions directly to the blog.
2) To spur questions, structure things a bit in the beginning . Offer a potential list of topics for questions-also making it clear that questions do not need to fit into one of the categories.