kelly's post to co-cure of Dec 31 09
Using social bookmarking to reach a wider audience
Although posting to listservs and groups spreads knowledge among specific groups and types of people, there are other ways to bring the issues to the public arena thus better informing doctors, scientists and the general public. Social book marking sites are easy to sign-up for making many of the magazine and newspaper articles and even research papers on CFS and related
issues are only a click away from a wider audience. By all means join Facebook, Twitter, My Space or Yahoo Buzz, but also consider joining some or all of the listings below. Most require some level of basic information, but your profile can be as bare bones or complete as you wish to make public:
http://www.stumbleupon.com/
http://digg.com/
http://www.mixx.com/
http://www.reddit.com/
http://www.wikio.com/
http://www.newsvine.com/
http://www.sphere.com/
http://www.propeller.com/
http://delicious.com/
Science and research oriented:
http://www.citeulike.org/
http://technorati.com/
http://www.mendeley.com/
http://www.connotea.org/
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(ifI thought this post was fantastic. I'm completely new to social media - and brain-limited in trying to explore it - just this forum overwhelms me and knockshuge chunks out of my life. Thank you kelly for the primer. It reminded me of another post on the power of google thread where Tom was saying that to be effective in advocacy, the goal should be to get the average person aware - therefore to include ME/CFS info somehow in all formats you use for your other interests.
Using social bookmarking to reach a wider audience
Although posting to listservs and groups spreads knowledge among specific groups and types of people, there are other ways to bring the issues to the public arena thus better informing doctors, scientists and the general public. Social book marking sites are easy to sign-up for making many of the magazine and newspaper articles and even research papers on CFS and related
issues are only a click away from a wider audience. By all means join Facebook, Twitter, My Space or Yahoo Buzz, but also consider joining some or all of the listings below. Most require some level of basic information, but your profile can be as bare bones or complete as you wish to make public:
http://www.stumbleupon.com/
http://digg.com/
http://www.mixx.com/
http://www.reddit.com/
http://www.wikio.com/
http://www.newsvine.com/
http://www.sphere.com/
http://www.propeller.com/
http://delicious.com/
Science and research oriented:
http://www.citeulike.org/
http://technorati.com/
http://www.mendeley.com/
http://www.connotea.org/
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