Cancer and Web 2.0
It is an honor for me that Journeying Beyond Breast Cancer is now featured by Webicina.com in its section on Cancer and Web 2.0.
Webicina.com is the world’s first and only free service that provides curated medical social media resources in over 80 medical topics in over 17 languages. Its mission is to let empowered patients and medical professionals access the most relevant social media content in their own languages on a customizable, easy-to-use platform for free.
It was co-founded by Dr. Bertalan Mesko, (@berci) the author of the award-winning medical blog, Scienceroll.com. Dr Mesko is also an internationally renowned speaker, health 2.0 consultant and innovator who helps physicians enter the social media era and empowered patients find medically reliable content online.
Why is curation in social media important?
People already know quality on medical websites is crucial, they are also now looking for curated medical resources in social media. Journeying Beyond Breast Cancer has evolved over the past three years from its original intent to describe my own experience of moving beyond breast cancer, towards this model of content curation with my weekly updates, guest posts and other resources.
What is Web 2.0?
A Web 2.0 site allows users to interact and collaborate with each other in a social media dialogue as creators of user-generated content in a virtual community, in contrast to websites where users are limited to the passive viewing of content that was created for them.
This description by crowdsourcing.org sums it up nicely for me:
The promise of Web 2.0 was simple, yet tall. The explosion of social media and the Web led us to believe in a world where people could converse, tell their stories, grow into communities and, in some sense, use this inter-connectedness to achieve greater democratisation of the Web.
I passionately believe that Web 2.o will (indeed it already is) play an even greater role in the future of medicine – how it is practiced and delivered and would love to hear your views on this too.
Wikis, blogs, social networking sites and other sharing tools have given patients access to basic information to let them manage their own health and yes I agree that it is important they know the right places of quality to seek out this infomation. Curation is vital!
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Social networking sites are changing nearly all industries including a significant impact on health care- and one of its biggest impact is how we seek and receive information.
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Well done – and well deserved on having Journeying Beyond Breast Cancer featured on this prestigious site
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It’s been wonderful to witness your progression from the early beginings of Journeying Beyond Breast Cancer to the very definition of ” e-patient” – equipped, enabled, empowered and engaged. I have learned so much from you along the way and look forward to seeing where this journey takes you Marie
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We are witnessing a paradigm shift in healthcare due to the impact of social media – power has been transferred from companies and organizations to “the people”. In traditional one-way communication channels, the sender has all the power. Now, with Web 2.0 this has changed the rules of engagement.
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Congratulations Marie you deserve even more recognition for the outstanding work and effort you put in. Marian
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Congratulations Marie, you are such a gift to us.
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Congrats, Marie!
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Patients are excellent at using the social media to learn, share, and connect — but how seeing more doctors and healthcare professionals online? that’s what i should like to see.
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Congratulations, Marie! Your blog continues to inspire, encourage, support and lead (just to name a few things!) Here is yet one more venue for you to continue to reach out to even more people. Well done!
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Congrats! I love your blog, and it so deserves to be curated on Webicina! And I agree that Web 2.0 is the way to go.
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Congratulations! You deserve this badge of honour. I personally like the idea of a forum for interactive dialog among users who are seeking support in their quest for restored health. You do all your readers a service by meeting that very need. Kudos! Brava! XX
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Marie, you rock! 😉
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Congratulations Marie! You really deserve the honour
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