In the meantime, here are some suggestions for ways to commemorate Frozen Pea Friday besides monetary contributions:

1. Mike Gunderloy (@MikeG1) is donating platelets to his local Red Cross today. This is an excellent suggestion for any day of the week, but it’s especially meaningful to those of us at Frozen Pea Fund because chemo patients often need blood or platelets. Check out this post by Kate, who is battling pancreatic cancer and just received two units of blood and additional platelets.

2. Blog about the Frozen Pea Fund or tell your friends about it. Our donation widget is down temporarily, but we’re not going anywhere.

3. Change your avatar on Twitter, Facebook, or other social networking site to a peavatar. Don’t know what that is? Check out the Frozen Pea Friday group on Flickr. And if you haven’t uploaded your peavatar to Flickr, please do so.

4. Add your name to the Frappr map for the Frozen Pea Fund.

5. Check out SharingHope.tv, a new video project by the American Cancer Society that allows people to share their cancer stories in their own way. Here’s what Susan Reynolds had to say about SharingHope.

– Connie Reece

Check out the show info and find out how you can be part of the conversation.

Mark your calendar: Wednesday, February 13, 9:00 pm EST

Click the map to add your name.

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Please take a few minutes, click on the Donate button in the sidebar and donate the price of a couple of bags of frozen peas to the American Cancer Society. That can, and will, make a difference in breast cancer research.

Michael Allison (@michaelallison), a Canadian grad student pursing a master’s degree in communications and a part-time marketing assistant, recently presented the Frozen Pea Fund as a case study to a group of PR peers.

“Twitter acts as a sort of stream of consciousness between groups of asymmetrically reciprocal followers,” Michael said. “I think it can be argued that Twitter, or similar critically-massed application, is valuable and can convey meaning to communities that can affect real-world change.”

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After you’ve stopped laughing, support breast cancer research by making a donation equal to the price of a couple of bags of frozen peas today. Just click the flashing peavatar button at the top of the right-hand sidebar. The money goes to the American Cancer Society.

P.S. Ann, why not just drink the green Skittles?

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Many thanks to Jeffrey Sass (@sass) for this video and for his outstanding work with the premiere social networking rehab center, Invitations.

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 120 different blogs have covered the story of Susan Reynolds and the creation of the Frozen Pea Fund.

Thank you, one and all!

UPDATE: Now over 200 blogs … as time allows, we will add links on the Who’s Talking About Peas page.

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.

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 that established mammography as the gold standard for the early detection of breast cancer.