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What will I find on ShareWIK.com?
Who is ShareWIK.com for?
How is ShareWIK.com different from other health-related web sites out there?
ShareWIK.com is a social networking site. How can I connect and share with others on this site?
What is the difference between groups and discussions?
What if I want to be a member and remain anonymous?
Can I ask one of your experts or columnists a question anonymously?
What role do your Strategic Partners play?
What is a “ShareWIK IQ?”
What is an “In Other Words?”
Click here for "How To"
guides on just about everything regarding this site.
What
will I find on ShareWIK.com?
ShareWIK
literally means share
"what I know."
ShareWIK.com provides personal and intimate accounts of situations, conditions and experiences. We are a community, a safe place where you can be real, ask questions and share what you’ve learned. And learn from others.
Members of our site will benefit from patient experiences and the wisdom of others in blogs, vblogs and from our panel of female physicians and experts who will give you straight answers and make complex health topics easy to understand.
Everything on ShareWIK.com is grounded in solid medical research and scientific data but they exhibit a personal, experiential approach to storytelling.
We’ll talk about what’s important to you, your men, your families and your aging parents so you never have to feel alone when faced with a breast cancer diagnosis, when you’re waiting up all night for a teenager to come home or when you find out your father had a stroke.
A particular treatment didn’t work, or you experienced particular side effects? A surgery hurt like heck or a procedure you tried wasn’t all that it’s touted to be? Depression, anxiety, addiction stealing a family member’s life? Your husband no longer interested in sex? Caring for an aging parent is exhausting, challenging, heartbreaking? What did you do? How did you handle it? Are there resources you discovered that may help someone else? Others will want to know details, details and more details. The good, the bad, the nitty-gritty.
You can rely on our site to learn that if I had to do it all over again, this is “What I Know Now.” A part heads-up, part how-to, part girlfriend-to-girlfriend warning of what you can expect, in a coffeehouse-like setting.
Who is ShareWIK.com
for?
ShareWIK.com is
designed to target the person who makes
most of every family’s medical decisions: women between the ages of 30
and 60.
ShareWIK.com
wants to equip women as they address their own
medical and health concerns, as well as the issues facing the men in
their
lives, children and aging parents.
How is ShareWIK.com different from other health-related web sites out there?
There
are a lot of great medical sites
offering information on symptoms, diagnoses and treatments. We’re not
competing
with those sites but supplementing the information they offer by
providing
unique patient experiences told from a “What I Know Now” perspective.
We’ll
tell you what your doctor may have missed or couldn’t cover in your
10-minute
appointment and we’ll discuss what you may have been too embarrassed to
ask.
We’ll
be talking about life in the way
all women do with their friends over a cup of coffee or a glass of wine.
ShareWIK.com
is a social networking site. How can I connect
and share with others on this site?
When
you become a member of ShareWIK.com there are several ways to
get involved:
Participate in a forum.
Write your own blog post
Add comments to blogs, columns, videos, and discussions
Upload photos, videos, and music
Join a group
Create an event
Send an email to info@sharewik.com and tell us your story
For "How To" guides, click here
What is the difference between groups
and discussions?
A
discussion is quite simply a question
or comment that any member can post in the "Discussions" area that
allows
others to also make comments. It can be about any topic or idea.
A
group is designed to focus on a
particular topic or health issue such as weight loss, aging parents, or
cancer. Groups are open to any member of ShareWIK.com
and you can take part in as many
groups as you wish. Within each group you will find a discussion forum,
RSS
reader, and comment wall. It's a great way to connect with others going
through
similar experiences.
What if I want to be a member and remain
anonymous?
When
you join ShareWIK.com you can choose how you'd like
to be identified by putting that information in "settings" for your
personal page. Rather than a personal photo, you can use the ShareWIK
default
logo or you could have an avatar image created.
Can I ask one of your experts or
columnists a question
anonymously?
Yes.
Submit your question here
and it will be read only by our
staff.
What role do your Strategic Partners
play?
Our
Strategic Partners are medical
organizations we have come to know and trust. They share our vision and
mission
for giving women information they wish they had known and are providing experts and/or video content or other
informational resources.
Our
Strategic Partners do not dictate
or influence our editorial decisions; we remain 100 percent editorially
independent.
What is a “ShareWIK IQ?”
Our
panel of women physicians and experts will answer questions
relevant to our weekly topic.
Physicians
and experts you see on ShareWIK.com are unable to answer questions
particular to any individual case – for that,
please consult your personal doctor.
What is an “In Other Words?”
These
video segments are one to two
minutes in length. Experts or
people impacted by a health issue will share information they think you
should
know and will go more in-depth than what’s given in our “ShareWIK IQ”
segments.
Please
do not hesitate to submit your
own In Other Words story. We’d love to hear from you.
What is a “My Voice?”
As
the title suggests, this is a
person’s story. We’ll give you a three to five minute version on the
main page.
If you’d like to hear more, you can check out the longer version by
clicking
the link in the “Additional Highlights” section or by searching
ShareWIK.com archives.
When
working for media outlets, ShareWIK.com co-founders,
Matt Clement and Diana Keough were often frustrated by all the great
personal stories they had to leave on
the cutting room floor. Incredible stories had to be put in sound bites
and
quotes.
Not
any more – you get to hear
everything we hear.
What
will I find in “This Week’s Highlights?”
Other
suggested sources, new articles,
professional publications, videos and links that we think may be helpful
to you
and supplement the information we provide in our weekly topic.
Who writes the blogs under your weekly
topic?
The
blogs are written by women – and
sometimes men – who are impacted by the “topic of the week.”
All
of them are copy edited and checked
for medical accuracy by the ShareWIK.com team.
Remember,
none of our content takes the
place of a physician’s care – always consult your doctor (Terms of Use).
Please
do not hesitate to tell us your
story. We can’t promise we’ll use it but we are always searching for
story ideas
and topics to cover.
We
have Writers’ Guidelines available
and would be more than happy to send them to you in blog format. (Contact
Us)
I see advertising on your site and in
your videos. Does that
influence what you write about or cover?
ShareWIK.com is 100 percent
editorially independent. We’re
not affiliated with our strategic partners or advertisers.
If
there’s paid content on our site,
we’ll make sure it is clearly identified as such, and that you know
about it!
How do you determine your weekly topics?
There
are so many topics that women
like us talk about that we wonder if we’ll ever have a chance to cover
all the
topics we want to discuss.
We
also work closely with our experts and female physicians to
determine our topics. However, we’re always open to suggestions and
would love
to hear your story or topic suggestions. Suggest a
topic now.
We
can’t promise that we’ll use it, but
if we can we’ll contact you.
How do you find women to feature in your
weekly topics?
Many
of the stories we tell come to us
through our partnership medical institutions and health associations. We
also
find many through our web site. We are always looking for first-person
experiences that fit our mission that will help others with their
medical and
health concerns or make their lives easier. If you’d like to tell your
story
and possibly have us feature it on ShareWIK.com, then please submit your
story here.
We
can’t promise we’ll use it, but if
we can we’ll be in touch.
Do I have to be a member to read your
content and view your
videos?
We
invite everyone to read our blogs, weekly columns and watch our
videos. We hope you’ll like them
enough to share with your friends.
If
you’d like to connect with other
women in our groups, you’ll
need
to become a member of ShareWIK.com. We do this to protect the privacy
of our members.
What are groups?
Groups are a place where you can
connect and talk with other members about a particular topic.
You
can join as many groups as
you like or even suggest we start a new one here.
Groups
are open for all ShareWIK.com members to
see.
What if we’re interested in becoming a
strategic partner,
sponsoring or advertising with ShareWIK.com?
That
would be great! Contact us
Do you pay writers or experts?
No.
Our writers and experts contribute because they want
to help educate and inform other women. Perhaps some day we’ll pay, but
not now.