Here are some stats on the first official Frozen Pea Friday:
1. Susan’s 2 surgeries (mastectomy and reconstruction) went well and report on lymph nodes came back negative, an encouraging sign. She’s resting well in a private room (finally!) and it’s possible she may be released on Saturday.
2. In the first 15 hours after launch, we raised $3,493 for the Frozen Pea Fund. Cathleen Rittereiser rounded it off to $3,500 and, as promised, is kicking in an additional amount because we met her challenge goal of exceeding a certain amount by a certain time. (Sorry, the exact amount is lost in a mountain of emails and tweets.)
3. Donations came from 118 peaple on 3 continents. While the money will fund research and programs in the U.S., generous-hearted souls from other countries are able to give to the Frozen Pea Fund using the ACS donation form.
3. 272 members of the Frozen Pea Friday group on Flickr have uploaded 262 peavatars. For most of the day, Twitter was awash in green.
4. Susan Reynolds hit the #1 spot on the Tweeterboard. Most of the top 10 most popular today and this week were sporting peavatars!
5. Duncan Riley’s post on TechCrunch was a highlight of a wave of blog coverage; it also was mentioned on the official Twitter blog and was picked up on the front page of the technology section of BBC News online.
December 22nd, 2007 at 1:25 am
Huge congrats to everyone involved – what a spectacular team result!! I loved seeing the sea of green today.
I blogged here for added support:
http://whyfacebook.com/2007/12/22/twitter-fundraising-meets-microblogging/
December 22nd, 2007 at 1:59 am
I’m glad to hear things are doing well with Susan, and that the Pea Fund has become successful
December 22nd, 2007 at 2:16 am
Wonderful!
December 22nd, 2007 at 9:41 am
Also, as of this morning, 339 PEAple have joined the Twitter group to share support and keep current on news about Susan. Wow! Thanks @kosso & @whurley for their coding help, and @geekgirltv and many others who volunteered to create PEAvatars for folks.
December 22nd, 2007 at 6:24 pm
I’ve been doing my part getting this website a high recommend rating at Mahalo.com (5) so far. Thinking of Ms. Reynolds and her family…
December 23rd, 2007 at 8:55 am
Home in my owm bed and have been clearing for shower when spouse comes from pharmacy with mondo gauze pads.
Thought I’d comment on blog here but typing takes energy I donr have and keep hitting wrong kegs.
PLEASE know how much
I appreciate you, each and every onse
December 26th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
i will include a link to this site on my blpg – it’s great what you are doing x