We Active Challenge 2019


Tuesday 9th July 2019 by @NaomiMcVey

We Active Challenge 2019

Are you ready…?

The sun is making an appearance, holidays are on the way, and we’re dusting off our trainers and warming up .... it can only mean one thing ..... the largest social media campaign and competition for healthcare professionals is back.

WeActiveChallenge is running again for the FIFTH year, and with WeAHPs winning gold for the last four the competition is really heating up.  

So here are the details:

When?            1st – 31st August 2019 (winners announced on the 31st August)

What?             A social media campaign & competition for healthcare professionals, families and friends

Who?              YOU!

Where?           On twitter!

Thirty days to form new habits

Throughout August we’re asking our communities, your colleagues, families and friends and anyone else who wants to tag along to dust off their trainers, walking boots, or swimming gear, active wear, and then GET ACTIVE .... tweeting pictures to share what you've been doing.

We’re asking you to try to do a bit, or start a new activity, to help establish some new physical activity habits during the 30 days of the challenge.

Healthy competition

As well as competition between the communities you'll be working towards getting a virtual bronze, silver or gold medal:

We will also be looking out for best photos across all the communities in the following areas:

  1. Best overall photo
  2. Best team photo
  3. Best family photo

 

How to get involved: 

  1. Set yourself a goal or challenge for August – like taking the stairs, going for a lunch time walk each day, climbing your local peak, or trying out Park Run.
  2. Get friends, family and your work colleagues involved as well.
  3. Take some pictures (or even a vine or video) of your activity.
  4. Share your pictures on twitter with your community hashtag (see below) – choose your allegiance carefully, this is a competition!  

You can also share on Instagram – but this won’t count towards the medals or inter-community competition.

Choose your hashtag

These are the official campaign hashtags we'll using for the competition - choose one, or more if you have MDT loyalty, and use it in all your tweets for the challenge:

  • #NursesActive
  • #PharmacyActive
  • #AHPsActive
  • #MidwivesActive
  • #DoctorsActive
  • #ReserchersActive (Guests for 2019)

If you don't "belong" to any of the professional groups about then please pick whatever one, or ones, you fancy ... the important thing is to get active this summer. 

Some ideas on what to tweet:

Your photos don’t have to be in Lycra, poised or perfect, this challenge is about having visible fun, being inspired and inspiring others. 

Some of the feedback we received in previous years was around people not knowing what pictures to tweet - we understand that you may not want to take pictures of your sweaty self and upload them to Twitter so here are some suggestions:

    

   

How's the challenge going?

Get to know the #WeActiveChallenge leader board

Check out the live, from August 1st, leaderboard & enter your Twitter name to get your #WeActiveChallenge virtual badge too!

Badges
You can add your Twitter name into the badge section to see how many badges you have earned. Roll over the badges to see how many active pics you need to share to earn them.
If you’ve earned a badge you can click on it to launch a tweet that looks like a link, simply tweet that link to send a “Twitter Card” with your badge in it!

If you want to use multiple community hashtags they will all add up to your badge total.

Charts
These track the activity and form the “challenge” aspect of #WeActiveChallenge. Click on the blue chart circles to see:

  • Total number of tweets by volume in “All Tweets.
  • The “Weighted Tweets”, taking the size of the community into consideration to deliver a fare and comparable view of community involvement.
  • “All Users” shows the number of people by hashtag participating.
  • “Trend Graph” looks at the sharing by day, you can switch communities on and off by selecting them on the bottom too.

Selecting the bars in the bar charts will filter the pictures being shown in the montage wall to the community you've selected.

Picture Montage 
If you click on a picture it will open the original tweet where you can engage with the sender.

If you have selected a community via the bar chart you can reset the view to show all via the refresh arrows at the top of the montage wall.

Other Information
There aren’t any rules but do try and play fare by tweeting pics of you or your activity, we don’t want to have to remove your tweets for over excited community support now do we!

The promotional tweets throughout the We Active Challenge from the WeAccounts do not count in the leaderboard.







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@PamKHphysio
11 July 2019 15:07
I was dreading August because I have to move into a much smaller flat (necessitating) much more cutting down & throwing ou on the first BUT now #ExcitementandAnticpation are the #NameoftheGame'

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