Birth related experts may now interact with each
other through a new social network specially tailored to their needs. Sat within Breastfeeding.com, a website
offering a wide variety of resources connected with its namesake topic, the
"Expert's Community" will offer professionals like lactation consultants, midwives, doulas, and
child birth educators an unprecedented online venue where they can swap
practical advice, share anecdotes and find practical or moral support.
As well as liaising with their peers, users are
expected to benefit from being afforded the opportunity to grow through
reaching out to the 200,000 individual users who visit Breastfeeding.com every year. Mothers seeking information or just looking
for friendly contact will be able to access Expert?s Community personal blogs,
which are displayed on the main site.
President of Breastfeeding.com Victor
Babbitt has presented the launching of Expert's Community as a win-win scenario, He comments, ?Finding a midwife, doula, or
lactation consultant in your area can be challenging. With our directories, a
visitor looking for say, a midwife, can use the zoomable maps to find the ones
near her, and then click into each professionals profile on the Experts
community to learn about them. Making it easy to connect these professionals
with potential clients, while at the same time bringing more expert advice into
the web is a great use of Web 2.0."
Breastfeeding.com purports to
supply new mothers with comprehensive information and services on all subjects
related to nursing and child health. Expert's
Community is the second social network to be added to the site, which already boasts
a network dedicated exclusively to mothers.
According to the press release issued by
Breastfeeding.com today, the site has two million new mothers visit each year
and credits its success to useful resources that add value to their core
audience, with no budget spent on advertising.