May 15th, 2008
About Lively Women
Living healthy is hard. Lively Women makes it easier.
You’re busy — you don’t have time to read everything out there about women’s health. At Lively Women, host Kristen King gathers current research, important headlines, and practical advice all in one place to give you the women’s health information you actually care about.
Regular features include:
- Women’s Health Newsflash — A quick list of links on a topic — like breast cancer, ovarian cancer, or osteoporosis — that’s gotten lots of attention recently.
- History of Abortion — Few things are more controversial in the area of women’s health than abortion. We trace it from early origins to today’s news.
- Product Reviews — Letting you know what’s worth buying or trying, and what’s so totally not.
- Women’s Health Giveaways — From Brita filters and beauty products to restaurant gift certificates and books you may enjoy, Lively Women offers regular giveaways of products you can use in your busy life.
10 Things You Should Know About Lively Women
According to the National Institutes of Health, there are 10 things you should know about every medical resource on the Web.
1. Who runs this site?
LivelyWomen.com is part of the b5media network, a global blog network. As your host, Kristen King (that’s me!) more or less has ultimate power over the site’s content. She can take responsibility for content posted as of January 1, 2007, when she started hosting Lively Women, but not before that (because someone else was running the show then). Kristen is a full-time freelance writer-editor with a background in medical writing and editing, but she’s not a medical professional.
2. Who pays for the site?
b5media funds the site through Google Ads and other affiliate income. However, the ads are clearly ads (eg, top-of-the-page banners and Google advertising), and none of the content is paid for by advertisers. Whenever Kristen promotes a specific product or service, she will always disclose whether there is an affiliate relationship. Product reviews are not paid for, but Kristen does receive free samples for the purpose of trying products so she can review them.
3. What is the purpose of the site?
LivelyWomen.com is dedicated to helping women live whole, healthy lives by providing health and lifestyle information. In fulfilling this purpose, LivelyWomen.com host Kristen King tries to provide humor, encouragement, and empathy to the site’s readers while developing relationships with them via blog content and comments.
4. Where does the information come from?
Information that appears on LivelyWomen.com is culled from a variety of sources, primarily via an RSS reader. Kristen has gathered a list of reputable scientific and medical resources as well as active and reliable blogs and online communities that deal with women’s health and reviews their contents regularly for ideas and current issues. Kristen also regularly receives press releases and tip from the medical community and various product manufacturers.
5. What is the basis of the information?
Kristen provides a link back to the original source for any hard data so her readers can get the information first hand and make educated health and lifestyle choices. Sometimes, the information is meant to entertain rather than to educate, but links to the source are provided in those cases as well so readers can form their own opinions.
6. How is the information selected?
Host Kristen King selects the information published on LivelyWomen.com based on its currency, relevance, and level of interest for readers. Any information that comes from a potentially questionable source is cross-referenced to verify that the information is accurate, and links to all relevant sources are provided whenever possible.
7. How current is the information?
Kristen reviews her RSS reader and public news sources several times a week and selects topics based on timeliness. Those topics with a short shelf life or those that are of critical importance get written about first. Others that have no particular time line are set aside for a later date.
8. How does the site choose links to other sites?
Kristen links only to sites that she feels will have significant informational or entertainment value to her readers. Advertising and affiliate links are labeled as such. LivelyWomen.com does not link to sites with adult content or questionable validity. Anything that may be potentially unsafe for work (such as a video demonstration of a breast self-exam) is labeled as such.
9. What information about you does the site collect, and why?
b5media’s privacy policy is available here.
10. How does the site manage interactions with visitors?
Kristen interacts with LivelyWomen.com visitors via blog comments and e-mails she receives from readers. Kristen makes every effort to respond to comments and e-mail quickly. LivelyWomen.com does not send unsolicited e-mails to site visitors. However, if there is a problem with your comment, Kristen may contact you using the information you provided in the online form to notify you of such problem.
About Kristen King
Kristen is a full-time freelance writer-editor and consultant who started her own business right out of college, and juggled part-time obituary writing, magazine writing, nonprofit development, bartending, and nannying for about 4 months before the realization that working 24/7 with no health benefits was, frankly, totally sucky. She jumped into the “real world” for 20 months as a full-time staff editor for an international medical journal before making the jump to full-time freelancing — and freelancing only.
Two years later, Kristen’s working from her home office as a 26-year-old business owner with a husband, three cats, a bullmastiff, an English mastiff, and a pug. She blogs prolifically on women and business, women’s health, freelance writing and editing, and her menagerie of pets while balancing a variety of client projects spanning everything from marketing copy to clinical research articles to government proposal writing and then some. (More about Kristen.)
About b5media
b5media is a global media network of more than 350 blogs in 15 vertical channels. Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, b5 employs bloggers from around the world. Read more about b5media here.
Comment Policy
Nothing makes me happier than when my readers leave comments. I’ve got a pretty liberal comment policy and I’m all about strong opinions here, but there are a couple of things I don’t allow: spam, personal attacks, excessive profanity, and anything else that strikes us as being inappropriate. I may edit comments for language (profanity or sexually explicit content, for instance), but I’ll also make a note to let future readers know that the comment was altered. I reserve the right to delete comments or ban commenters at my discretion, but I promise to let you have your say so long as you’re behaving like a grown-up. My blog, my call.
Have questions? Contact Kristen.
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