I’m still writing my women’s health blog at b5 media and learning a boatload about blogging in the process. Barely anyone where I live knows what blogging is, but how would they respond if I said I’m a “problogger.” Say what?

There are several ways to get paid to blog; you can run ads on your own site, or you can write for someone else who does all the legwork for you. That’s what I’m doing now. All I have to do is write, and b5 now has full-time employees who take care of advertising.

I’ve been writing my Lively Women blog for five months, and it’s still fun. The b5 media home page has recently undergone a major facelift, making it very easy to see what the company is about.

If you’re passionate about a particular topic and wouldn’t mind writing about it several times a week, you can visit the b5 media job board and see what’s open. The network has over 150 blogs, 14 vertical channels and two million unique visitors a month, with new blogs being added all the time.

For me, it’s an interesting way to stay up on the latest news in women’s health and wellness, a topic I feel passionate about. And being part of a network makes me feel like I’m not alone. It’s not a bad way at all to build a writing platform while I’m staying home with my children.

It’s also nice to know that my efforts are being validated … with a paycheck.