I can see a history of the site is interesting but not sure why you want to know all of this? However I love doing research so I had a look around! The answers to some of the questions are easily found on the site! For example the press archive goes back to Dec 2003 – and at the bottom there is an article from the Dumfries Courier from Feb 2004 where Dr Currie is talking about the website she has developed. Here is an excerpt from it:
WITH such a minefield of information on menopausal treatments, Dr Heather Currie has produced a website, which she regularly up-dates. Increasing numbers have been clicking on in recent months to ease concerns about the controversy surrounding HRT and its links with breast cancer.https://www.menopausematters.co.uk/press.phpSo it is interesting that the website was started so soon after the HRT controversy following the WHI study in an attempt I presume to provide an informative and balanced view.
I imagine the magazine was started soon after or at the same time and ditto the forum. The first members of the current forum joined in early 2007 but I remember some members talking in the past about the “old forum†and being transferred over (presumably when it was redesigned) so we are talking about a similar time-frame I expect.
The forum and website was built by the Internet Design Shop but Dr Currie is founder and manager so will have determined its structure and content and written a lot of it.
As to distribution of the magazine – from the magazine micro-site it looks like it's available to purchase in bulk for patients but wouldn't be freely available (because there are costs involved) – although of course it is eventually available free online.
You asked about education and training (GP updates) – I would have thought it was obvious that the dissemination of information on menopause needed is far more than one person can achieve. The British Menopause Society (of which Dr Currie was the last Chair) has a huge and ongoing programme of education, information and guidance for health professionals – through lectures, conferences, meetings, exhibitions and the website. You can read all about what they do here:
https://thebms.org.uk/ (it's a link though....
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In terms of keeping threads on track – why do we need someone to do that? We do that ourselves – although sometimes one gets snarky comments about policing when members suggest a thread is going off topic, or even hint at it! Threads do meander sometimes but the main reason for keeping approx on topic is so that future members reading them can find what they are looking for and searches work – like the filing system mentioned earlier somewhere – but obviously can't be rigidly adhered to – we are human after all!
Can't tell you the answer re mod or admin – but I presume they are interchangeable. How I see it is that admins do stuff like registration, spambot control and other adminy stuff or are in charge of it all, and moderators look at the posts and threads to keep it all on an even keel and intervene where necessary.
Just my thoughts and searches....I doubt you will get an answer from mods/admins because they are very busy doing just that – amongst other things!!!
Does that help?
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