DK Health-Medical & Related Groups & Series Links, 2011-2015

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Continuous updating: please kosmail corrections, additions, changes, clarifications, new information, & questions to METTLE FATIGUE

     A DK group publishing diaries on a specific topic can be hard to find without knowing in advance its name, link, or tags. And valuable diaries are often published without the attention they deserve when authors don't know/haven't found groups of their focus for wider readership. This directory of links is a longterm DK reference project to foster mutual-benefit interaction among these groups and series, and with the overall DK community, to help kosak readers and writers connect with health-medical information and groups valuable to them. Groups & series concerned with Daily-Living-With-It health-medical and related topics are in the first list below, and in the second one lists Groups & Series Writing on Public Policy, Political, Professional, News, Morale-Support and Helping Efforts, including environment/pollution, poverty, homelessness, hunger, minority & women's rights, etc. (Pootie diaries are included because humor and animals are therapeutic.)

      Some groups and series in these 2 lists are no longer active but included because their archived diaries are a valuable resource. All group/series titles are underlined; active groups and series are bolded.

      DK groups are online publishing organizations owned and operated by their administrators (think "newspaper/magazine owner/publisher"). Editors handle some of the necessary tasks, but only admins can "hire" and "fire" (add new members/"contributors", promote contributors to editor and editors to administrator, remove/demote members) and other executive operations. The diary list (posting history) access link is information-rich for how recently/often/actively the group publishes. However, administrators and groups have no duty to sustain operations indefinitely — running a group can be very tough volunteerism, especially over the long haul, and some groups in DK are founded for specific temporary purposes and cease operations afterward. Groups from which all admins leave can't add or promote members, and if all editors leave the group can't publish.

     Above the diaries, the MEMBERS link gives the list of admins, editors, and contributors. A kosmail-to-group —asking to join it, requesting diary republication, inviting shared activity, etc.— goes only to admins and eds without putting a New Message alert at the MESSAGES line in anyone'sWELCOME BACK box; so, they may not see it timely. Try kosmailing to specific active admins or eds (check how recently their profiles show comments or diaries). If the group has no active admin, an option may be to contact remaining members and other interested kogs about creating a new group. But remember: solid organizational work, especially outreach is vital: many DK groups of all kinds never get off the ground or crash and burn soon after take-off unless word of their existence is well spread by members and friends blogrolling and hotlisting it, hunting for groups with compatible interests to request republishing your founding diary (stating your group's scope, aims, discussion/meeting schedule, etc...which should be in your group's profile statement, too), instituting cooperation with other kogs and groups of related interests, etc. This August 2014 compilation is good guidance for novice admins and editors. New Diarists is the basic resource.To be respectful of "safe-place" groups, permission was asked and received for their inclusion.

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