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.
MNT Parkinson's News
The latest parkinson's disease news published daily. Articles from research centers, universities and prestigious journals.
National Parkinson Foundation
The mission of the National Parkinson Foundation is to improve the quality of care for people with Parkinson’s disease through research, education and outreach.
News-Medical.Net
Stay up to date with the latest Parkinson's Disease news and research via News-Medical.Net.
Parkinson's Action Network
The unified voice advocating for better treatments and a cure.
Parkinson's Disease
Health Wisdom on Parkinson's Disease from OrganizedWisdom. Sharing quality resources, trends, and research to help people.
Parkinson's UK
We're the UK's Parkinson's support and research charity. Help us find a cure and improve life for everyone affected by Parkinson's.
Parkinsons Education
World Parkinson's Education Program promotes awareness about Parkinson's disease.
PD Online Research
Collaboration for a cure for Parkinson's disease. Be part of the largest network of Parkinson's researchers, clincians and funders on the web!
Team Fox
Team Fox is The Michael J. Fox Foundation's grassroots fundraising program.
The Michael J. Fox Foundation
The Michael J. Fox Foundation funds research that will lead to a cure for Parkinson's disease.
Touch APD
Parkinson's disease news and information.
UMMC Parkinson's
News and updates from The Maryland Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Center.
Bill Schmalfeldt
A 55-year old federal writer who has had Parkinson's disease for 10 years. Working from home, writing and doing my best to raise awareness.
Davis Phinney
Parkinson's Disease spokesperson, LAF supporter, Tour de France stage winner, Olympic medalist. Currently living STRONG with PD.
Gary Coons
I was a firefighter for 15 years before being medically pensioned with a line of duty injury. In 2005, I developed Parkinson's disease.
Marshall Davidson MD
Doctor, researcher, person with Parkinson's. Quality knowledge = quality care decisions. You don't have to be a brain surgeon to understand the brain.
There are aggregators that help you find people tweeting about Parkinson's disease.
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 Parkinson's disease.
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.
Blogs, podcasts, community sites, search engines and mobile applications, among others, focusing on the management of Parkinson's disease.
