The number of social media sites and applications dedicated to public health is huge and there are plenty of opportunities for public health to use this power, but finding only relevant resources takes time and effort. As usual, Webicina is here to help.
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.
Public Health 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.
The American Medical Association helps doctors help patients by uniting physicians to work on the most important professional and public health issues.
American Medical News: The news and information source for physicians. Covering business, policy, public health and legal issues that impact medical practices.
APHA's Get Ready campaign is helping Americans prepare for all health hazards, including pan flu, infectious diseases, disasters and other health emergencies.
Official Twitter of the Colorado School of Public Health. Promoting health, wellness and prevention, through public health graduate education and research.
For those who want to make a difference in the health of communities and populations, the School of Public Health at Drexel offers exciting opportunities .
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.
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The number of social media sites and applications dedicated to public health is huge and there are plenty of opportunities for public health to use this power, but finding only relevant resources takes time and effort. As usual, Webicina is here to help.
The number of social media sites and applications dedicated to public health is huge and there are plenty of opportunities for public health to use this power, but finding only relevant resources takes time and effort. As usual, Webicina is here to help.
