WEGO Health Lifetime Achievement Award Nomination

I am thrilled to announce that I have been nominated for a 2017 WEGO Health Lifetime Achievement Award. This is the sixth year in a row that I have been nominated and I am beyond proud to be a two-time winner! These awards are nominated by peers and readers within distinct health communities and I am quite honored to be a 2017 nominee. 

WEGO Health is a very helpful community that links health advocates with other patient leaders across the country. A Patient Leader "uses their own health journey to raise awareness, share knowledge and help others. They leverage social media to amplify their voice, connect with peers, and build community. They are the thought leaders and transformers industry leaders turn to for insights and expertise they need to build a more patient-centered, consumer-driven health care ecosystem." I've learned a lot from other patient leaders including how to be the best advocate I can be for the celiac disease community. 

In case you missed it, here are a few more of my contributions to our celiac disease community:

• Living with celiac disease since 1981!!!
• Blogger at Gluten-Free Fun since 2007
• Blogger at Gluten-Free Globetrotter since
• Leader of the Santa Cruz Celiac group since 2016
• Leader of the NYC Celiac Meetup group for more than ten years (2005-2015)
• Volunteer for the Celiac Community Foundation of Northern California since 2016
• Tireless advocate for the celiac community across all social media platforms

I will continue to be the voice of the celiac community for as long as I can. I am living with this disease and if my blog, social media, and volunteerism can help just one person with celiac, I feel like it is all worth it.

I would love your help with an endorsement of this award. Simply click on the link above or visit this page to submit your endorsement today. Thank you for your continued support! 

WEGO Health Awards 2015 Nominee: Gluten-Free Fun

WEGO Health is an amazing website that works with health advocates to foster relationships with their health communities. It's important to remember that I am not only writing for the gluten-free community, but I am also living with Celiac Disease. WEGO Health helps build these communities, while providing the resources I need to be the best celiac advocate that I can be.

For the fourth year, I have been nominated for WEGO Health Activist Awards. I am completely blown away that this year I have be nominated for three separate awards: Health Activist Hero, Best in Show: Blog, and Lifetime Achievement. It is such a wonderful feeling to be recognized by my readers and peers for the advocacy and activities I coordinate within the gluten-free community.

According to the WEGO Health website, "The WEGO Health Activist Awards were created to embody the mission of WEGO Health: to empower Health Activists. We connect with so many inspiring Health Activists who raise awareness, share information, support their communities, and much more - often without recognition. The WEGO Health network is centered around Health Activists, so we knew it was up to us to tell these leaders how great they are! We wanted to celebrate those who have made a difference and thus, the Awards were born. We've since found that these Awards are one of the best ways to introduce new Health Activists to the online community and have community members say "thank you" to the leaders they love."

Click here to visit my WEGO Health page.

The WEGO Health Awards are accepting endorsements until January 31st, 2015 (This Saturday!) If you are a fan of Gluten-Free Fun, Gluten-Free Globetrotter, or the NYC Celiac Meetup Group, I would love if you could visit my nominee page and submit an endorsement. This can be done anonymously or you can include your name in the submission, this is completely up to you. You can also tweet and share to Facebook once you have submitted your endorsement.

I thank you in advance for helping me continue my advocacy with the gluten-free community. I do what I do for you, my readers, and the entire celiac disease community. Without this disease and this website, we wouldn't be connected. Even if you think celiac disease is an awful diagnosis, you are NOT alone. We are all in this together.


https://awards.wegohealth.com/nominees/2061


My 2014 WEGO Health Awards nominations

Best in Show: Blog
Whose blog do you absolutely love? Their writing is exceptional, their "voice" admirable, and their writing is just really worth reading. You think anyone wondering why patients or caregivers would blog about health should read this Health Activist's blog - it will make the case crystal clear. They have great info, raise awareness, and do whatever they can to help their community by using their blog. They may be active on numerous social platforms - but the blog is their bread and butter - and they are a great model of how to be a blogger.

Health Activist Hero
Sometimes the connections we make in online communities go above and beyond, truly changing our lives for the better. Is there a Health Activist you know whose content has opened your eyes, whose dedication has ignited the advocate within you, and whose work has accomplished things for their community members? Which Health Activist is nothing short of a hero to those they reach? They are the epitome of a Health Activist because they do whatever it takes to make a real difference – and they are.

Lifetime Achievement (This is the nomination I am most excited about!) 
Year in and year out we come across some Health Activists who continue to rock the health world. Think of it as the Academy Awards of the Health Activist community. What leader needs to be recognized for their overall achievement over the years? Across mediums, with patients and other leaders, who are the true stars who continue to shine and don’t fit into one category because over time, they have done it all. Perhaps they even started their advocacy before Twitter… gasp! Recognize those giants of Health Activism that have stood the test of time.

https://awards.wegohealth.com/nominees/2061

Don't delay, endorsements end this week! Thank you in advance. 

Nominations Now Open: Fourth Annual WEGO Health Activist Awards

The WEGO Health Activist Awards is a program that was created by the WEGO health community to recognize the health leaders, bloggers, tweeters, and champions that are within your online health communities, but who often go without receiving any recognition or thanks.

I have been both a nominee and a finalist in previous WEGO Health Awards which makes me very proud. The 2014 nominations are now open through December 31, 2014.

Whether you nominate me or another favorite Celiac blogger, Tweeter, or offline champion, I encourage you to nominate your favorite health advocate. This is your chance to both thank and recognize those that speak out on our behalf. Nominate someone that inspires you, encourages you, or who has helped you but you never had the chance to thank them in person.

Click here to nominate your favorite WEGO Health Activist today!

2012 WEGO Health Activist Awards Nominee

I was thrilled to learn this morning that I was nominated for a 2012 WEGO Health Activist Award. This year, I was nominated for "Best in Show: Community/Forum - Awarded to someone who exemplifies the use of a community or forum to raise awareness and make connections."

As you have read many times on this blog, I was totally lacking a gluten-free community growing up. I didn't even meet a fellow Celiac until I was a teenager. This made my gluten-free world very lonely at times. When I started organizing events for the NYC Celiac Meetup group in 2005 and writing this blog in 2007, I felt like I was giving back to the gluten-free community. At the same time, I realized that I still longed for this connections with others living with Celiac.

Being nominated for this Best in Show award makes me feel that all of my hard work and dedication to our community has not gone unnoticed. I do not know who nominated me but if you are reading this THANK YOU! This nomination means so much to me!

You can help endorse my nomination by entering your email address below. It would mean the world to me to win. Thank you in advance!

2 weeks left to vote in GFreek Awards

There are only two weeks left to vote in the 2nd Annual GFreek.com Awards. I am thrilled to announce that Gluten-Free Fun is nominated as one of the five Best Gluten Free Websites or Social Sites. I am especially excited for this second nomination since I won this award last year!

Voting is simple. Just visit the Gluten-Free Awards page on GFreek.com and click on the link that says "Click here to vote now" in the middle of the page. The "Best Gluten Free Website or Social Site" vote is #16. Be sure to select GlutenFreeFun.Blogspot.com. That's me!

Thank you in advance for all of your votes.

Gluten-Free Fun on The Top 50 Celiac Blogs

I am really excited to announce that my blog, Gluten-Free Fun, was featured in the Top 50 Celiac Blogs posted on the Healthcare Technicians blog a few weeks ago. Considering there are hundreds of gluten-free and Celiac-related blogs out there, I am honored to be a part of this list. I am in really great company too with some of my favorites on the list, so go and check it out today"

"Who Needs Wheat Anyways? The Top 50 Celiac Blogs" featuring Gluten-Free Fun

Gluten-Free Fun Wins Award!

Gluten-Free Fun has just received a 2010 Top Allergy Blogs award! I am not sure how I was nominated, but this is my first blog award and I am really excited to be on the top 25. Thank you to all of my readers and commenters over the past three years!


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