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About.com is an online neighborhood of hundreds of helpful experts we call "Guides."
Every month, millions visit us for help with everything from health care and parenting issues to advice on travel, cooking, technology, hobbies and more. And we offer solutions in the form of over two million hand-crafted, original articles - all created by our exclusive network of over 750 Guides - real people who, like all good neighbors, help others so that everyone's life gets just a little better.
What Makes About.com’s Guides Unique?
- Individual Expertise: Guides are subject-area authorities
that About.com selectively recruits. Editors qualify Guide-candidates based
on education, professional experience and writing ability.
- Supreme Dedication: About.com's exacting standards mean less than 15% of those who enter the Guide training program successfully complete it.
- Highly Credentialed: Many about Guides are nationally recognized authors and professionally certified experts who are sought out—both online and offline—as opinion leaders on the subjects they write on every day.
- Rigorously Trained: Each About.com Guide is given both the editorial guidance and tools needed to optimally maintain their subject area's content and accordingly, their audience's interest.
- Award Winning: . Since 2000, 20 Guide-sites have
been named Forbes “Best of Web,” with 3 Forbes “Favorites.”
Many Guides have been recognized for their outstanding contributions to
their industries.