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.
Internal Medicine on Twitter
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.
American Medical News: The news and information source for physicians. Covering business, policy, public health and legal issues that impact medical practices.
British Medical Journal aims to lead the debate on health, and to engage doctors, researchers and health professionals to improve outcomes for patients.
Symposier.com, the technological platform that will allow you (and your colleagues) to share medical information, and much more with medicine professionals.
Public Relations department of the American College of Physicians (ACP), the largest medical specialty organization and second-largest physician group in the U.S.
Annals is the flagship journal of the American College of Physicians. Annals is one of the five most widely cited peer-reviewed medical journals in the world.
The American Medical Association helps doctors help patients by uniting physicians to work on the most important professional and public health issues.
Internal medicine specialist, medical director and allergy fellow. I embrace social media's abilty to empower patients, families, clinicans and researchers.
Past Program Administrators Chair and on the Twitter Task Force at Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine committed to medical education.
Twellow.com is currently grabbing publicly available messages from the Twitter.com micro-blogging service. They analyze and categorize each of the users respons
Relevant, selected and quality social media resources from blogs and podcasts to community sites and Twitter users focusing on internal medicine.
