Description:
Those in the public, private, and government sector increasingly rely on information and news from social media outlets and websites. AZGS stakeholders are no exception. About 60% of US adults rely on the internet as their primary source of information for science-based inquiries (Brossard, D. and Scheufele, D.A., 2013). A Pew Research Center report shows that Youtube and Facebook are accessed by 73% and 69%, respectively, of all adult US internet users (Perrin and Anderson, 2019). Instagram (37%), LinkedIn (27%) and Twitter (22%) follow in their wake. This report documents AZGS efforts to use social media and web outlets in 2019 to disseminate geologic reports, maps and news to a broad audience.