Great American Smokeout User Generated Contest Winners!

Whoa. THAT is a mouthful. As many of you might have known we had our second ever user generated contest this past month to help promote the Great American Smokeout. The Great American Smokeout was inaugurated in 1976 to inspire and encourage smokers to quit for one day. Now, 39.8 percent of the 43.4 million Americans who smoke have attempted to quit for at least one day in the past year, and the Great American Smokeout remains a great opportunity to encourage people to commit to making a long-term plan to quit for good. So to help promote it we asked adults and children to tell us why smoking sucks. Here are the top three winners. Their fabulous prize was a Flip Video Camera.

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Pop! Tech Live Feed

For some reason, Pop! Tech didn’t publish its live feed until after the opening session. You can watch it at http://live.poptech.org The conference runs through Saturday. Stay tuned for “near live blogging.-)”

Presentation from Greenlights Conference

SharingHope.TV now with Blogging

You do know we have a sweet Video and Photo sharing site called SharingHope.TV right? But did you know that we now have a Blog that goes along with our Web Site? I bet you didn’t. So do me a favor. Go check it out and add it to your RSS feeds and bookmark it in Google Chrome when you get the chance.

What do we cover on this Blog? I’ll let the lady behind it tell you all about it!

“SharingHope.tv is like a television network starring regular folk.    They are survivors, patients, caretakers, and relatives showing how they persevere every day with Cancer hovering over their lives.  They film their own stories in the comfort of their own homes, using simple and increasingly affordable digital cameras.

By adding your story to SharingHope.tv, you join everyday heroes like Annie in giving hope to people who might be frantically searching the internets for information about a recent cancer diagnosis.  If you are a survivor, you probably remember how scary the mountains of information can seem.  What would it have been like to stumble across the smiling face of someone who has been there, and is urging you to persevere?

Can you really make a difference in the lives of other cancer patients and family members simply by telling your story?  We know you can.

So go to SharingHope.tv and watch the videos.  As you will see, the site is still new and needs more of your stories in order to shine.  If you have access to a digital camera with video capabilities, please take the time to share hope.

Hi. I’m Kara. I don’t have cancer, but I’ve lost two way-too-young friends and a grandfather to the disease. I have good friends fighting cancer now, and so I join the millions praying for cures.  I think SharingHope.tv is an awesome idea, and am doing my best to help spread the word.

Just like SharingHope.tv, I’m still in BETA(that’s social media speak for being pretty new at this blogging thing).”