TwitterFor those who prefer to scan headlines

Twitter is both a source and distribution channel for Post-Polio News. As a follower of @postpolionews you will have a direct line to the Editor via the Reply facility or Direct Messages if I have decided to follow you in return.

TIP: If you are likely to want to view more than one Twitter channel, creating a Twitter account will make reading tweets that much easier. However, if you only want to read Post-Polio News for the moment you don't need a Twitter account. Just go to the Post-Polio news Twitter page now by selecting this link. When new news items are posted, the page may update itself with a notification but if in doubt just reload the page.

Newspapers a convenient way for you to select from the last 24 hours worth of articles

Post-Polio News Newspapers are published as two editions at around 8:00 a.m and 2:00 p.m GMT/UTC every day. Each edition covers the previous 24 hours.

RSS (Google Reader/Feedburner)for those who prefer summaries

RSS (most commonly expanded as Really Simple Syndication) is also both a source and distribution channel for Post-Polio News. The advantage of RSS over Twitter is that the 'notice' is not limited to 140 characters.

TIP: While there are numerous applications available that are dedicated to reading RSS feeds, you don't need one just to read Post-Polio News. Nor do you need to subscribe to the feed in Google Reader, a web-based RSS reader, although if you intend to read more than just Post-Polio News doing so will make reading that much easier. To browse Post-Polio News (currently still called Polio and Post-Polio News), just select this link. You can go back through earlier news items by selecting the link at the foot of each page. However, to check for new news you will need to reload the first page.

Facebook.

Although this Editor has been involved in Information Technology since the 1970's as a then Applications and System Programmer on IBM mainframes, Facebook appears to me to require an arcane skillset. Perhaps my brain is wired differently but having created a Post-Polio News page on Facebook, it's not clear to me how to make effective use of it. So any suggestions, polite of course, will be most welcome.

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Email Daily Digestfor those who prefer email

A daily digest is available via email consisting of a selection of POST-POLIO NEWS output including, depending on the source, the partial or full text of each item.

Look out for new improved email daily digest service coming soon!

Please note that this digest is currently generated from the FeedBurner RSS feed and appears to be limited to 20 items a day. On most days this means some news items are not included. If for whatever reason you do not want to take the preferred Twitter option, one or more of the newspaper editions provide easy access to a larger number of news items.

Video Channels

Some news items include links to videos. Direct access to most of those videos is available through the postpolionews channel and associated playlists.

The YouTube icon above the video opens up the postpolionews channel in a new tab. The video displayed above is the last one that was added to the playlist of 'Latest' videos. The postpolionews channel includes a number of catagorised 'archival' playlists into which videos are periodically transferred from the 'Latest' playlist.

Post-Polio Health International

Although this UK site shares the 'Post-Polio' part of the domain name with Post-Polio Health International (www.post-polio.org), Post-Polio News (www.post-polio.org.uk) is an independent domain and site owned and managed by myself, Chris Salter.

Post-Polio Health International (PHI), or GINI as they were called in the mid 1990's when I first ventured into post-polio support on the internet, provide a unique service to the international polio and post-polio community.