Micro-blogging is the practice of sending brief text updates, photos, audio/video clips or links and make these public on a website and/or distributed to a private group of subscribers. These messages can be submitted by text messaging, instant messaging or e-mail.
Many micro-blogs provide short commentary about medical news, medical specialties or a company's products and services.
Webicina features two microblogging platforms including
Twitter and
Friendfeed.
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users' updates, which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.
In countries all around the world, people follow the sources most relevant to them and access information via Twitter as it happens—from breaking world news to updates from friends.
AIDS.gov
Your link to U.S. HIV and new media info.
HIV Law Project
Until there is a cure, we are committed to fighting for justice and dignity for people living with HIV/AIDS.
UN AIDS
Joint UN programme on HIV/AIDS.
MTV Staying Alive
Staying Alive is MTV's global HIV/AIDS awareness campaign and charity.
NMAC Community
NMAC builds leadership within communities of color to address the challenges of HIV/AIDS.
AIDS Council
Mission: reduce risk, fear and incidence of HIV infection, encourage the independence of people living with HIV/AIDS and promote understanding of their needs.
AIDS/LifeCycle
The seven-day, 545 mile cycling event that benefits the HIV/AIDS-related services of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and the L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center.
AIDS Actions
Gets alerts of AIDS-related actions from 65 social action platforms.
POZ Magazine
The premier HIV/AIDS advocacy, lifestyle, treatment and information resource by and for the community.
AIDSmeds
Dedicated to providing people living with HIV the necessary information they need to make empowered treatment decisions.
Healthline AIDS/HIV
Healthline updates on the latest AIDS/HIV news and research.
Anthony Chisom AIDS Foundation
The Anthony Chisom AIDS Foundation is comitted to bringing support to those living with HIV/AIDS around the world.
The Body
The complete HIV/AIDS resource.
HIV Alliance
Supporting individuals living with HIV/AIDS and preventing new HIV infections.
AIDS Action Committee
New England's largest and oldest AIDS service organization, tweeting about HIV, sexual health.
CDC National Prevention Information Network (NPIN)
Connecting HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, STD, and TB prevention partners.
Medscape HIV and AIDS
Latest medical news, articles, and features from Medscape Infectious Diseases and HIV.
Teach AIDS
We are a nonprofit organization that develops a new type of free, resarch-based, culturally-appropriate, HIV/AIDS education, used around the world.
HIV Insight
HIV/AIDS Information.
AIDSinfo
Offering information on HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention, and research.
Bob Bowers
26-year survivor of HIV/AIDS, AIDS activist, youth HIV/AIDS education, prevention, awareness.
Calvin Fleming
PR strategist, social media addict. Sharing info on HIV/AIDS and LGBT issues.
Julie Veroff
Executive director of FACE AIDS, a global youth movement to fight HIV/AIDS.
Liz Highleyman
Freelance writer focusing on HIV and hepatitis, history, sexual politics, activism, civil liberties.
Theo Smart
Editor of HIV and AIDS in Practice, a newsletter on the practical aspects of delivering treatment for HIV and coinfections like TB.
Jeromy Dunn
To eliminate the stigma of HIV/AIDS through education, community involvement, the collaboration with local businesses and personal testimony.
There are aggregators that help you find people tweeting about AIDS/HIV.
Twellow.com is currently grabbing publicly available messages from the Twitter.com micro-blogging service. They analyze and categorize each of the users responsible for those messages into the various categories found at Twellow.com.
It lets you track all the tweets and Twitter users focusing on AIDS/HIV
Friendfeed is an aggregator that collects the updates from social networking websites, social bookmarking websites, blogs and micro-blogging updates, as well as any other type of RSS feed. Users can use this stream of information to create customized feeds to share (and comment) with friends. It offers a unique way to discover and discuss information among a community.
AIDS/HIV affects millions of people worldwide and the number of related social media resources is also growing, though the quality is often questionable. This selection helps you find the best ones.
