Social Media for Arthritis Advocates/Volunteers
The Arthritis Foundation is committed to raising awareness and reducing the unacceptable impact of arthritis, which strikes one in every five adults and 300,000 children, and is the nation’s leading cause of disability. To conquer this painful debilitating disease, we support education, research, advocacy and other vital programs and services.
Using Social Media

Our aim is to encourage our employees,volunteers and advocates to engage in communities(wherever they gather), as champions to talk about the Arthritis Foundation, programs and services, and our work. To help build relationships, increase learning, and support our efforts.

Some Rules of the Game for Online Engagement:

•Whether in the actual or virtual world your interactions and discourse should be respectful.

•Be respectful to the Arthritis Foundation, employees, members, clients, corporate sponsors and competitors. When you post something related to the Arthritis Foundation don’t use obscenities, personal insults, ethnic slurs or other disparaging language to express yourself.

•Try your best to avoid personal attacks, online fights and hostile personalities. If someone posts a statement you disagree with, you can voice your opinion but don’t escalate the conversation to a heated, personal argument.

•Be transparent. If blogging about work at the Arthritis Foundation use your real name, identify you work for us and be clear about your role.

•Write in the first person, however, whenever your connection to the Arthritis Foundation is apparent, make it clear you are speaking for yourself and not on behalf of us. We recommend you include the following statement perhaps in the “About Me” section of your blog or website:

  • The postings on this site are my own and do not represent The Arthritis Foundation positions, strategies or opinions.

•Always try to add value and insight, attempt to educate, or help solve a problem if you want to respond to a status update or news story about the Foundation.

•Don’t share anything you are not comfortable with. Once it is published online it is in the public domain so think twice about the comments you post and the story you want to share.

•If you’re about to publish something that makes you even the slightest bit uncomfortable don’t do it.

•Link to others and always build relationships. That's what our work is all about.

•Also strive to protect your privacy.

•Don’t spam. Ever!

Where you can help

If you are promoting Arthritis Foundation events, raising awareness, sharing stories and the story of others via social media connect with us. Our combined efforts can have an impact in achieving our goals of reducing the unacceptable impact of arthritis.
LIKE us on Facebook -
Follow us on Twitter – or @arthritis_org
Subscribe to our YouTube videos –

If you have an important story or video to share post it to our Wall so we can share it. If you blog about your particular form of arthritis share your personal blog stories as well. You are encouraged to share our events, videos, tips, and news updates with your network of supporters on your preferred social media channel. As well as share your Arthritis event pictures, blog post on your journey with arthritis on our Facebook Page wall or via Twitter updates.

Remember Social media is about the conversation.