Microblogging: Twitter and Friendfeed

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. I listed 10 reasons how doctors can use Twitter.

Neurology news / organisations:

• Angela Babb: I am the Manager of Media and Public Relations for the American Academy of Neurology. Our team currently serves members of the media from around the world.
  
  
• Orly Avitzur: Editor-in-Chief, American Academy of Neurology Website, AAN.com
  
  
• Neurology Now: News from the #1 neurology magazine
  
  
• Migraineweb: This educational initiative provides tools, information and resources for clinicians that support improved therapeutic outcomes for patients with migraine.
  
  
• Groninger Neurologen: Neurology Department Refaja Hospital. What's new in neuroscience? Topics: Parkinson, dementia, migraine.
  
  

People who post about neurology:

• Jonathan Reed: Child neuropsychologist - director neurogames.co.uk -book editor: child neuropsychology - blog writer drjonathanreed.co.uk
  
  
• Mostafa Hussein: I do psychiatry, neurology, blogging and windsurfing
  
  
• Bill Yates: Physician interested in clinical neuroscience, the brain, data, fitness, golf and humor. Aim to educate and amuse. Not selling anything.
  
  
• KristaTibbs: Author of The Neurology of Angels: A novel about the hearts inside the business and politics of drug development.
  
  
• Zack Lynch: Futurist and author of http://www.theneurorevolution.com/
  
  
• Delmar I. Aubin: Nurse practitioner/stroke/neurology/clinical trials/mom/wife/nature lover
  
  
• Kathryn Welch: I am a PA in peds. neurology. I have been married to the love of my life for 10 years and we have a beautiful 3 year old girl. Love to scrapbook and read.
  
  
• Ecarone: Eternal New Yorker who is passionate about science, public health and science writing/communications.
  
  
• Jeff Kraakevik: Academic neurologist from Oregon focused on movement disorders and medical student education.
  
  
• Braindoc: LDS child neurology resident finishing up my fellowship this year.
  
  
• Fay Ellis, Editor: NT is the official newspaper of the American Academy of Neurology, published by Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
  
  
• Walter Jessen: Cancer biologist and bioinformatician, studying peripheral nerve tumors; biomedical and science writer, husband and father, easily distracted and interested in everything.
  
  
• Brian Moore: Neuropathologist
  
  

There are aggregators that help you find people tweeting about neurology.

Just Tweet It

Choose a category and find other Twitter users or list your name to let people find you!

Omnee

Omnee uses an innovative 3D hybrid ratings system to bring you the top users for each tag. We combine manual ratings (the size of the username) and computed ratings (the order based on Twinfluence ratings across four influence factors and colour based on Retweetrank).

Search.twitter.com

It lets you track all the tweets and tweople focusing on neurology.

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.

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.

Neuro-linguistic programming

Public room and live stream on neuro-linguistic programming (NLP or Neuro-linguistics for short)

Click here to see all neurology-related Friendfeed content