Just a note to let you know that our Donation Widget is temporarily disabled. We are making some web site changes as we transition into being an independent nonprofit organization. Exciting things are happening but they’re not quite ready to announce yet — we’ll be updating you soon. In the meantime, here are some suggestions [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 22, 2008
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/v/4iO9reWKLuI[/youtube] Susan Reynolds and Connie Reece (or Laverne and Shirley as they referred to themselves after viewing this video) finally got to meet in person this week when Susan and her husband, Bill, flew to Austin for meetings. Frozen Pea Friday #10 marked a milestone: incorporation and trademark papers have been filed. When completed, the [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 15, 2008
It’s been 9 weeks since Frozen Pea Fund began and we’re still going strong with over $8,000 raised so far. The response from the community and *beyond* our social media community has been amazing. Susan is an inspiring woman and by sharing her story has shown not only the power of social media but shown [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 7, 2008
We are grateful to the folks at crayon and their client, ooVoo, for choosing the Frozen Pea Fund as the beneficiary of their generosity. To demonstrate the new service, which allows up to six people to video chat, ooVoo recruited about 20 bloggers/authors/speakers to host informal chat sessions on a topic of their (choosing. The [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 1, 2008
Thanks to Channel 9 WUSA and Kathy Jacobs, among others, for making this video possible. In this week’s FPF video, Susan Reynolds, the woman behind (under, er, yeah) the peas was interviewed by Channel 9 WUSA about frozen peas, Twitter and how the movement got started. See the video below. I join Susan in her [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 15, 2008
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...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...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...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...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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Friday, March 14, 2008
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