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.
Ahepa Marrow
Mission is to add persons of Mediterranean descent into our database of prospective donors for leukemia patients.
ALL (Leukemia)
ACOR Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (Adult) PubMed updates.
Be The Match
Be The Match helps save lives. Thousands of people with life-threatening diseases like leukemia depend on Be The Match Registry to find a bone marrow donor.
CLL (Leukemia) News
ACOR Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia PubMed updates.
Gift of Life
We have been helping victims of leukemia find bone marrow donors since 1991. Help us continue doing so.
LLS
The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society - fighting blood cancers.
StopLeukemia.org
StopLeukemia.org's mission is to provide personalized support to individuals, families, and friends that have been impacted by leukemia.
Glenn Gleason
Father, leukemia survivor and insanely curious about everything.
Harolynn Head
Leukemia Survivor. I thank God, my bone marrow donor, and family for helping get through a very difficult time in my life!
Justine Kicks Cancer
Teenage soccer star and warrior against all things leukemia.
Renee Strutman
Support my campaign for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's Woman of the Year.
There are aggregators that help you find people tweeting about leukemia.
Twellow
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.
Search.twitter.com
It lets you track all the tweets and Twitter users focusing on leukemia.
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.
Leukemia, a cancer of the blood or bone marrow, can seriously affect not only the patients but also their families. Quality online resources can help them deal with this condition by providing medically reliable information.
