Peas and Podcasts
The Frozen Pea Fund was featured on two Internet radio talk shows today; both are now available for listening or downloading as a podcast. Forward Podcast, hosted by Paull Young (@paullyoung), with guests Susan Reynolds and Craig Colgan, writer of the Washington Post story featuring Susan. The Social Mediasphere, hosted by Tris Hussey (@trishussey) and [...]
Continue reading...Frozen Pea Friday – 03
Thursday, January 3, 2008
[flv]http://blip.tv/file/get/Newmediajim-FrozenPeaFund242.flv[/flv] Jim Long (@newmediajim) interviewed Susan Reynolds the day before her mastectomy. In this short video clip, Susan talks about what the support from her friends on Twitter has meant to her and how she felt when she realized peas were going viral. The purpose of Frozen Pea Friday is to remind people that giving [...]
Continue reading...Frozen Pea Friday – 02
Thursday, December 27, 2007
A recent Social Media Breakfast in Miami showed that Social Networking Addiction is not always a bad thing … when it’s for a good cause like fighting breast cancer: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rmPE55o1TY[/youtube] Many thanks to Jeffrey Sass (@sass) for this video and for his outstanding work with the premiere social networking rehab center, Invitations.
Continue reading...Who’s Talking About Peas
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
We created a new page for the site — Who’s Talking About Peas. The new page aggregates all the links to blogs and podcasts that have talked about the Frozen Pea Fun. Special thanks to Marcel Lebrun (@Lebrun) of Radian 6 for providing social media monitoring services. As of the initial report on 12-24-07, some [...]
Continue reading...Frozen Pea Friday – 01 Wrap-up
Saturday, December 22, 2007
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 [...]
Continue reading...Frozen Pea Friday – 01
Friday, December 21, 2007
[video]http://seesmic.com/Standalone.swf?video=MKRdnstbv8[/video] Spokesperson: Connie Reece Blog: Every Dot Connects Twitter: conniereece
Continue reading...Twas the Night Before Surgery
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Our Princess of the Peas, Susan Reynolds, went in for her pre-op testing today, and afterward she met up with Jim Long, aka NewMediaJim, at a “global burger chain.” Jim, a photojournalist and NBC News cameraman, did an on-the-spot interview with Susan via Utterz. It was wonderful to hear Susan’s voice and to know that [...]
Continue reading...Where the Money Goes
Thursday, December 20, 2007
All contributions to the Frozen Pea Fund until October 2008 will go to Making Strides, the breast cancer campaign of the American Cancer Society. The Society has invested more in breast cancer research grants over time than any other voluntary public health organization – $322.7 million since 1972! And it was the American Cancer Society [...]
Continue reading...Why Frozen Peas?
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Here is Susan’s explanation, from Boobs on Ice, the blog she’s using to chronicle her cancer experience: When I discovered a very thick area in my breast I called the doctor. The next day I was in her office. A half hour after that I was in the diagnostic radiologist’s. A full afternoon and multiple [...]
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