ADHD and More
adhdandmore.blogspot.com

ADHD and More is a really informative blog which contains “Essays, articles, news releases, my story as a parent of an ADHD child and more ….”

ADHD Bipolar and Beyond
blog.adhd-bipolar-and-beyond.com

In her blog, Kari, talks about the daily struggles and joys of raising a son with ADHD.

ADHD Guide
adhdguide.blogspot.com
shaneshares.blogspot.com

ADHD Guide offers links to all kinds of really useful resources and interesting articles that relate to ADHD. Shane also has her own personal blog at shaneshares.blogspot.com where she has personal information on herself, her family and her oldest son who has ADHD and learning disabilities.

ADHD Momma
adhdmomma.blogspot.com

Penny’s blog chronicles her and her family’s daily life with ADHD.

Adderworld
adderworld.com

Bryan, a published author, shares media based information on ADHD as well as personl stories that are usually presented in a very humorous light.

Angel’s Mind
http://www.angelsmind.co.za

Angel has a late teenage aged son with ADHD.

Can Mom Be Calm?
canmombecalm.blogspot.com

Jen has 2 special needs kids. Her blog posts are written in a compelling manner which shares a tremendous amount of information and wisdom.

Holly’s Corner
http://www.hollyscorner.com

Holly shares information, personal stories, recipes and experiences with a tweed aged daughter with ADHD.

LD Parents
ldparents.blogspot.com

This blog is from a single mom with 2 great kids each with their own unique learning styles.

Karen’s Blog
www.lipstickwisdom.com

Karen shares information and wisdom she has gained from her family’s personal experiences with their adorable son!

My ADD Blog
www.myaddblog.com

Tara McGillicuddy is a woman with ADHD who is a professional ADHD Coach.

strong>The Peal Family
http://thepealfamily.blogspot.com

Becky shares her experiences with her two boys.

Power Moms Unite
www.powermomsunite.com

This blog is written by a mom with ADHD children who is also a professional Occupational Therapist.

Slurping Life
slurpinglife.typepad.com

A mom by birth and adoption shares — through photography, writing ahd humor — parenting boys who live with autism, ADHD, cerebral palsy, fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and more. Reminding everyone that children with special needs are kids.

Totally ADD
www.totallyadd.com

This is the website associated with the film “ADD & Loving It?” The movie is a documentary about adult Attention Deficity Disorder. The one hour film is hosted by actor/comedian Patrick McKeena and written, produced and directed by fellow comedian Rick Green who has ADD.

Tracy Nicolaus
www.tracynicolaus.blogspot.com

Tracy has ADHD and has 3 sons each of whom has ADD or ADHD.

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/

Breaking news and analysis from the world of science policy

http://demfromct.dailykos.com/

ABOUT DAILY KOS

Markos Moulitsas — a.k.a. “kos” — created Daily Kos on May 26, 2002, in those dark days when an oppressive and war-crazed administration suppressed all dissent as unpatriotic and treasonous. As a veteran, Moulitsas was offended that the freedoms he pledged his life for were so carelessly being tossed aside by the reckless and destructive Republican administration.

Daily Kos has grown in those five years to the premier political community in the United States, with daily traffic between 2-4 million visits. (Click on the rainbow box at the bottom of the page for up-to-date stats.) Among luminaries posting diaries on the site are President Jimmy Carter, Sen. Barack Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and dozens of other senators, congressmen, and governors. But, even more exciting than that, tens of thousands of regular Americans have used Daily Kos to lend their voice to a political world once the domain of the rich, connected, and powerful.

Daily Kos has eight paid staffers and continues to ramp up its features, from top-tier independent polling (about 100 polls in 2008) to its groundbreaking Electoral Scoreboard.

http://scienceblogs.com/aetiology/2009/04/swine_flu_a_quick_overview–an.php

Tara C. Smith is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology. Her research involves a number of pathogens at the animal-human nexus. Additionally, she is the founder of Iowa Citizens for Science and also writes for The Panda’s Thumb and previously for WIRED SCIENCE’s Correlations. Please note the views expressed on this site are Dr. Smith’s alone and may not be representative of the groups mentioned above.

http://www.virology.ws/

The purpose of this weblog is to teach you about viruses and viral disease. This topic is not one that everyone understands, yet nearly everyone would like to. I was most disturbed when the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Tommy G. Thompson, referred to the anthrax bacillus as a virus. That incident crystallized in my mind the need to better educate the public about viruses.

I am your host at Virology blog – Vincent Racaniello Ph.D., Professor of Microbiology at Columbia University Medical Center. Why am I qualified to teach you virology? I have been studying viruses for over 30 years, starting in 1975, when I entered the Ph.D. program in Biomedical Sciences at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine of the City University of New York. My thesis research, in the laboratory of Dr. Peter Palese, was focussed on influenza viruses. In 1979 I joined the laboratory of Dr. David Baltimore at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where I did postdoctoral work on poliovirus. In 1982 I joined the faculty in the Department of Microbiology at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons in New York City. There I established a laboratory to study viruses, and to train other scientists to become virologists. Over the years we have studied a variety of viruses including poliovirus, echovirus, enterovirus 70, rhinovirus, and hepatitis C virus. As principal investigator of my laboratory, I oversee the research that is carried out by Ph.D. students and postdoctoral fellows. I also teach virology to graduate students, as well as medical, dental, and nursing students.

Why is it that the picture that YouTube grabs from the video is ALWAYS the worst looking thing imaginable???

Hi! So I am really excited – a couple of days ago, we actually got our first sharing of a personal story from our community. Now it was an anonymous comment to my introductory blog of “Advice for the Mother of the Bride/Groom” but it was a real honest-to-goodness mother-in-law-zilla story. In the comment, the anonymous contributor shares how her mother-in-law tried to hijack the wedding planning process so that the arrangements would be according to her own wishes and not those of the bride and groom! It is a reminder to those who are about to become a mother-in-law that the relationship with the bride and groom long term is much more important than the actual arrangements of the wedding.

So this is a milestone – a small one to be sure but a milestone nonetheless.

So much of my time right now is spent on grass roots marketing efforts for Lipstick Wisdom. The focus of the grass roots marketing is to build a community of people interested in engaging with Lipstick Wisdom through either the consumption of information or the contribution of information. The grass roots marketing efforts are all about making connections and building relationships!

So the primary leg of my grass roots marketing strategy for now is twitter. If you are not familiar with twitter, it is a micro-blogging service that enables individuals (and individuals representing companies) to send and read updates known as tweets which are up to 140 characters in length. You follow others to read their updates and others follow you to read your updates. The core nature of twitter is the sharing of information and value. Those not familiar with twitter often criticize it and think that the information updates focus on the trivial such as what people have eaten for lunch. That is far from the truth. With twitter you are able to follow thought leaders, politicians, executives, celebrities, suburban moms and any other type of person that you are interested in engaging with. The sharing of incredible information on Twitter is powerful. In addition, Twitter enables the sharing of information in real-time. For instance, there was a small earthquake in California last week. I learned of it immediately because people were tweeting about it immediately!

According to ComScore, Twitter had 9.8 million unique visitors in February and the growth is continuing exponentially. Through twitter, I have been able to get feedback on Lipstick Wisdom; I have learned valuable information resources; I have gotten women to register on Lipstick Wisdom; and I have been able to connect with bloggers who may be future contributors to Lipstick Wisdom.

The best way to build a twitter following is to share useful information and to interact with the community. Answer questions, ask questions and share useful links to interesting articles you have read and reports you have found. There are many many Twitter tools out there to help you as well. The ones I use include Tweetdeck which is an interface to twitter and helps you manage the interaction with twitter. Twitter search helps you locate Twitter conversations focused on topics you are interested in. Twellow is a directory that groups Twitter users into categories based on their profiles and what they tweet. Twubble is an algorithm that makes suggestions for who you should follow based on who you are already following.

I am also actively virtually networking with other bloggers. Bloggers, whether they are commercial or not, write their content not only for their own satisfaction but also because they want their writings consumed. By reading other blogs and commenting on their blog entries, I am able to build relationships by delivering value where I can and find also potentially valuable content for Lipstick Wisdom.

I am also working on building a Facebook fan page and am interacting with other micro social sites such as Cafemom, Twittermoms, Connected Women and others.

Grass roots marketing is a process which takes time but is thoroughly rewarding due to the real time feedback and engagement that takes place. So right now I am building the Lipstick Wisdom community one person at a time with the hope that I can create a community that delivers tremendous value to women and with the hope that these early community innovators will share Lipstick Wisdom with their family and friends so that one day the growth of Lipstick Wisdom will be exponential.

www.dementiacaregiving101.com

Dementia Caregiving 101 is the joint project of Paula Farris and Lanette Stultz. Paula and Lanette are sisters who shared in the responsibilities of cargiving for their Mother, Delorice, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease in March 2008. She passed away in September 2008 after a battle with blood clots.

Paula does the writing for Dementia Caregiving 101 and Lanette helps with the technical end of things as well as providing ideas and insight into the various topics on the site. They both look forward to serving you and making your Dementia Caregiving journey easier and more fulfilling.

http://www.dsolie.com/blog/
Aging Parents Insights: Insights to Understanding Our Aging Parents and Ourselves

Observations and commentary on caregiving, aging, and the complex journey through the second half of life.

David Solie is the author of How To Say It to Seniors: Closing the Communication Gap with Our Elders, published by Prentice Hall Press. Written for baby boomers and their parents, professionals who work with the elderly, and everyone who has regular contact with seniors, this book offers an original perspective on why these conversations can be an exercise in frustration. Whether the communication difficulties involve parents, patients or clients, Mr. Solie’s book provides a fresh and inspiring look at new strategies and skills for overcoming these challenges.

http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/

Thanks to the marvels of medical science, our parents are living longer than ever before. Adults over age 80 are the fastest growing segment of the population, and most will spend years dependent on others for the most basic needs. That burden falls to their baby boomer children, 77 million strong, who are flummoxed by the technicalities of eldercare, turned upside down by the changed architecture of their families, struggling to balance work and caregiving, and depleting their own retirement savings in the process.

In The New Old Age, we explore this unprecedented intergenerational challenge. While founding blogger Jane Gross is on leave, at work on a book, we’ll be posting contributions from a variety of writers. You can reach the editors at newoldage@nytimes.com.

www.sandwichINK.com

Information and Encouragement for The Sandwich Generation and Other Multi-Generational Caregivers.