Welcome new readers!

23 August 2010
No Comments

A big warm welcome going out to those of you who went to conference and have come along to this blog to check it out!

If you’re looking for the book I referenced, you can click the image on the right, or buy it from either of these websites:

Class UK – GBP 17.99

Amazon – US $28.73

And, if you like the look of this blog and would like to subscribe to email updates, you can go here.

More about the conference in tomorrow’s post. Have a great week!

Nic

Continue reading »


By Nic on 23 August 2010 at 6.20 am
Posted in Community, Conferences, Kids & Teens
Tagged as
This post has No comments so far. Add yours here.

Rotorua, I’m a ‘comin.

20 August 2010
1 Comment

As you read this, I’ll be on my way to Rotovegas for the Diabetes Youth New Zealand Conference 2010.  As opening speaker and MC, I’ve got my work cut out for me. I’m hoping it comes pretty naturally as have had so many things going on in the last few weeks I’ve not had nearly as much time for prep as I’d hoped!

Anyway, I’m looking forward to all of the speakers, and particularly the session on Sunday morning which comprises a panel discussion and interactive sessions about the daily challenges of life with the big D. It will be a bit like this blog, but in real life

I will…

Continue reading »


By Nic on 20 August 2010 at 12.33 pm
Posted in Community, Conferences
Tagged as
This post has 1 comment so far. Add yours here.

Stunned.

20 August 2010
24 Comments

In a total David vs Goliath scenario last night, this little website beat all of its competitors to take out the Netguide Best Lifestyle Site award!! I found out last night by text message (I had been offered free tickets at the last minute but opted instead to come home and pack my bags and get ready for the DYNZ conference) and many hours later I am still shocked!

To put this into perspective, the winners of the other categories are the likes of TVNZ , Telstra Clear, The Warehouse, Mighty Ape, Stuff.co.nz and Google. Does the song “one of these things is not like the other ones” spring to mind?

Overall, the out-take from this is that you lot…

Continue reading »


By Nic on 20 August 2010 at 8.39 am
Posted in Community
Tagged as
This post has 24 comments so far. Add yours here.

Thanks again for your votes.

11 August 2010
5 Comments

Hi everyone.

Well, the finalists for the Netguide Web Awards have been announced here and I’m totally thrilled to share with you that BeingDiabetic is one of them!

We’re up against grownups.co.nz and healthyfood.co.nz which obviously have much bigger potential audiences than this site (There are only 17,000 T1s in the country; yet grownups attracts audiences of NZers 50years+ and healthyfood.co.nz appeals to anyone interested in cooking).

So, what I’m saying is – for a small diabetes community, we sure have a loud voice, managing to get BeingDiabetic into the final three. In fact, looking at all of the sites in the finals across all of the categories, I think BeingDiabetic is probably…

Continue reading »


By Nic on 11 August 2010 at 8.06 pm
Posted in Community
This post has 5 comments so far. Add yours here.

Diabetes radio, and help a parent day.

10 August 2010
7 Comments

Hi everyone – I got an emails from two readers last week which I would love your input on please.

ONE:

My mum is hosting a radio segment in New Plymouth which starts up soon about diabetes…along with the medical team up there and has been asking me for a name for her segment.  Wondered if you had any ideas on a name and some topics you think would be important to cover?  They will be talking about all kinds of things to do with diabetes and interviewing medical people on the show.
Can you help this BeingDiabetic reader out? Questions:

- what should her Mum call the show?

- what topics would you want covered in a radio…

Continue reading »


By Nic on 10 August 2010 at 9.38 am
Posted in Community, Funding, Insulin Pumps, Kids & Teens, Medical Services
This post has 7 comments so far. Add yours here.