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.

People who post about pregnancy:

• Pregnant Jane: "What!? I'm pregnant!? How!? When!? Uh Oh. We're blogging about our ENTIRE pregnancy adventure SECRETLY. Not even family or friends know. But now you do.."
  
  
• Fertile Foods: "Nutrition adviser Kathryn Flynn on using the healing benefits of whole foods, exercise and relaxation for balanced living before, during and after pregnancy."
  
  
• Jessica: "Mom; Owner of MomFuse.com and BarteringMomsClub.com"
  
  
• Shannon Anderson: "Official Babies Online Twitter Site - Pregnancy, baby, and parenting services and information since 1997. Single mom and resident nerd."
  
  
• Michelle Taylor: "I am a 38 year old mom to an 11 year old girl i live in Birmingham UK i run a social network for moms.We offer Moms, Grandmoms, Blogging Information, Pregnancy "
  
  
• Deirdre Morris: ”Inspiring Success in Fertility, Pregnancy, Birth, Breastfeeding & Beyond With the Law of Attraction"
  
  
• Maribeth Doerr: "Owner/Editor-in-Chief of StorkNet.com ~ your online pregnancy/parenting resource for the last 13 years!"
  
  
• Eleanor Copp: "Midwife and Hypnotherapist, I support you to have your own best birth , whatever that entails, where you are relaxed and confident and have NO FEAR ! ."
  
  
• Candy Kirby: "Publisher/columnist for the parenting and family humor site, The Laughing Stork, and expectant first-time mother suffering from margarita withdrawals."
  
  
• Catherine: "Mom of 3 sons, searching for freebies to help cut costs, it became a blog! Owner of borntolove.com, blogger of pregnancy stories, miscarriage, frugal baby tips."
  
  
• Ask Doctor: "pregnancy, missed period, delivery, mensus, health, doctor, medical questions, online doctor"
  
  

Pregnancy news / organisations:

• March of Dimes: "Daily pregnancy tips from Beverly Robertson, National Director, Pregnancy & Newborn Health Education Center at the March of Dimes"
  
  
• Louis Crawford: "Pregnant Times offers practical online pregnancy information for women that are pregnant, looking to get pregnant, new mothers and mush, mush more..."
  
  
• SureBaby: "A favorite online mom and expectant mom site."
  
  
• fitpregnancy: Fit Pregnancy is the most-trusted source of information for pregnant women and new mothers.
  
  
• PregnancyAndBaby.com: "Pregnancy; Baby: A web mag; community for hopeful, expectant, new; experienced parents!"
  
  
• What To Expect: "Your online resource for pre-conception, pregnancy, and parenting questions, where you’ll meet other moms and moms-to-be like you."
  
  
• Pregnancy Info
  
  
• Pregnancy Calendar: The Internet BFF's Weekly Pregnancy Calendar @ Alphamom. Forbes Top Ten Mommy' Hood Guru.
  
  
• Baby Parenting UK: Twitter account of the Baby Parenting UK website.
  
  

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

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 Twitter users focusing on pregnancy.

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.

Parent Resources

"Share parent resources & experiences. ParentClick.com is an online guide that centralizes parent and family resources from pregnancy through the teen years."

Pregnant: For Soon-To-Be Moms and Dads

"Do you have a baby on the way? This is a place for soon-to-be moms and dads to share information about being pregnant and pregnancy. Share all great pregnancy blogs you find and any information that would be helpful on our journey to parenthood!"

Unplanned Pregnancy

How to deal with an unplanned pregnancy

Click here to check all pregnancy-related Friendfeed rooms