Okay. I got up early to head off on a big adventure today, only to get hit by a few snags, so I’m running behind schedule. So, this will be a quick Follow Friday post, pretty much just hashtags.

#ff is, of course, Follow Friday. Every Friday I try to write a blog post about things to follow on Twitter. Usually, it is people, or maybe organizations. Today, I’m following some hashtags. A hashtag is a convenient way of marking a tweet so that people can find the messages. It starts with a hashmark (#). Since I use TwitterFeed, the headline of my post and a link to it will show up in Twitter a little later.

My big adventure today is for Give Kids A Smile Day. This is National Children’s Dental Health Month. During this month is Give Kids A Smile day, when many dentists and health centers provide free dental work to children without insurance.

Community Health Center, Inc. (@CHCConnecticut) here in Connecticut is participating. I am their social media manager and I’ll spend a bit of the day traveling to different locations to help and to gather stories. Note: what I am writing here in my Follow Friday post is my personal thoughts and not anything official from CHC.

CHC is as #chc and a #fqhc. That is, a community health center and a Federally qualified health center. These are two other hashtags worth following.

Finally, I’ll mention #hcsm, Health Care Social Media. Yup. That’s essentially a hashtag that sums up my job. It covers a wide array of topics. Much of #hcsm seems to be on a more corporate, hospital, medical device, etc. bent. I’m enjoy writing about an important, and too often over looked aspect of health care. This leads me to my final hashtag, #hcr, or Health Care Reform. There are a lot of people still fighting over health care reform. Some are defending the Affordable Care Act. Others are attacking it. We need to move past all of this and focus on meaningful health care reform. #CHCs are an important part of this and I’m glad to be part of working for real improvements in our country’s health care.