The document summarizes a panel discussion on health blogging and activism featuring three panelists: Lisa Emrich, a blogger about her experience with multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis; Jenni Prokopy, founder of a website and forum for young women with chronic illnesses; and Amanda Dolan, an editor at WEGO Health who moderated the discussion. The panel covered topics such as developing an online voice, deciding what health information to share, promoting blogs and sites, blog structure, maintaining fresh content, dealing with difficult issues, and avoiding burnout.

1. Navigating
Your
Health
Narrative

2. Our Health Activist Panel
Lisa Emrich
Multiple Sclerosis Health Activist
Blog: Brass and Ivory: Life with Multiple
Sclerosis and Rheumatoid Arthritis
Twitter: @LisaEmrich
Lisa is a Health Activist for the MS and RA communities online. She blogs at
Brass and Ivory, writes for HealthCentral, vlogs for How I Fight MS, and
advocates for greater disease awareness, better educational tools, and
stronger community support online. Lisa will tell the healthcare industry
what they are doing right and where there is room for improvement…

3. Our Health Activist Panel
Jenni Prokopy
Fibromyalgia Health Activist
Website: ChronicBabe
Twitter: @ChronicBabe
Jenni is founder and editrix of ChronicBabe.com, an online resource for
young women with chronic illness - plus its accompanying forum with nearly
1,000 members. An award-winning writer, speaker, and expert on healthy
living, she shares her personal experience - and rallies the expertise of
hundreds of others - to help women live beyond their illness and be total
Babes.

4. Our Health Activist Panel
Amanda Dolan
Panel Moderator, Editor at WEGO Health
Blog: WEGO Health blog
Twitter: @APDolan
Amanda is the editorial lead of the WEGO Health Blog. Through her writing,
she and fellow members of the WEGO Editorial staff work to fulfill WEGO
Health’s mission to empower Health Activists to help others.

5. So You Have a Health Condition
You Want to Talk About Online …
NOW WHAT?!
#wegowebinar

6. Developing, Sharing, and
Maintaining Your “Voice”
#wegowebinar

7. Disclosure:
How Much Do You Tell? How
Much Do You HAVE To Tell?
#wegowebinar

8. Promotion in Motion:
Getting the Word Out About
Your Site!
#wegowebinar

9. Structuring the Editorial:
Information Architecture at
its Finest!
#wegowebinar

10. Keeping Content New, Fresh,
Interesting … and Other
Adjectives.
#wegowebinar

11. Keeping the Conversations
Positive, and Dealing with
Tough Stuff
#wegowebinar

12. Grappling with “Blogger
Burnout”
#wegowebinar

13. You Asked!
We Answer!
#wegowebinar

14. Thanks!
@lisaemrich @chronicbabe @apdolan
Continue the Conversation!
@wegohealth
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