The Myeloma Beacon is pleased to announce an important new service offering. Starting today, visitors to the website can use the Beacon’s new “blog posting aggregator ^[1]” to track postings at a wide range of multiple myeloma-related blogs. The aggregator provides excerpts from, and links to, blog postings by multiple myeloma patients, caregivers, and family members around the world.

“The Beacon’s blog posting aggregator is a convenient way for our readers to keep tabs on all the popular myeloma-related blogs,” explains Maike Haehle, associate publisher of The Myeloma Beacon. “By checking the aggregator once or twice a day, Beacon readers can stay up-to-date with everything going on in the myeloma blogosphere.”

Hundreds of times every day, the blog posting aggregator checks actively maintained blogs in the Beacon’s comprehensive directory of multiple myeloma blogs ^[2].

When the aggregator finds a new posting at a blog that it is monitoring, the title, publication date, and excerpt of the posting are added to the aggregator database. This information can then be viewed by Beacon readers on the aggregator’s pages, which are easily accessible via the "Blogs" link in the Beacon's top menu.

Postings on the aggregator pages are displayed based on publication date and time, with the most recently published postings shown first.

The blog posting aggregator is yet another service The Beacon is introducing to ensure that The Beacon continues to be one of the Internet’s leading resources for staying abreast of myeloma-related news and events ^[3]. Together with the Beacon’s myeloma discussion forum ^[4], regularly updated news ^[5], patient and caregiver columns ^[6], and physician columns ^[7], the aggregator service rounds out a unique set of content and services that has made The Beacon into a regular destination for thousands of members of the myeloma community.

If you are a myeloma patient, caregiver, or family member and you would like your blog to be among those monitored by the Beacon’s blog posting aggregator, feel free to use the blog submission link at the bottom of each blog aggregator page or at the Beacon’s directory of multiple myeloma blogs.