CPS-3 Needs You
The weekend of May 2-3 across the U.S there will be 13 Relays For Life with an extra special component. These relays will offer a chance for people to volunteer to participate in our third cancer prevention study. CPS-3 is looking for 500,000 volunteers between the ages of 30 and 65 who have never had cancer. Here’ s how our Web site describes it:
The purpose of CPS-3 is to better
understand the lifestyle, behavioral, environmental and genetic factors that cause or prevent
cancer and to ultimately eliminate cancer as a major health problem for this and future
generations.
Study participants will be asked to give a blood sample and fill out a questionnaire. You’ll then reserve a questionnaire about once a year asking us to update your lifestyle information.
This weekend CPS-3 enrollment will be at the following Relays:
Bakersfield, CA
Long Beach, CA (Cal State U)
San Gorgonio Pass Communities
Tracy, CA
Bertram, FL
Milton, FL
Bibb (Macon) GA
Henry (McDonough) GA
Curry County, NM
Manati, Puerto Rico
Brazos/College Station, TX
Lubbock, TX
Buda/Kyle, TX
Enrollments are only taken for an hour or more at each relay, so click here to find a list of all Relay events involved in CPS-3 enrollment. The specific times are listed.
In addition to the 13 relays happening this weekend, there are many others still to come. If there’s not one near you this weekend, perhaps there’s one coming to your community soon.
Here’s a 5:13 video containing more information about CPS-3. Watch it, then tell all your friends, neighbors, and family members between the ages of 30 and 65 to come out and sign up. This is another way for them to get involved in finding ways to prevent cancer.
If you have a blog, please consider going to SharingHope.tv and embed the video into a blog post of your own. We’d appreciate you spreading the word.
Thanks.
Twitter And Its Many Uses
At the National Volunteer Health Agency conference in Atlanta last week, one of the presentations dealt with Twitter, the micro-blog you can use to inform your friends of what you’re doing. Twitter is so new that those agencies in attendance still couldn’t figure out if it could help them in accomplishing their missions.
If you’re wondering if Twitter can help your agency, check out the different tips offered by Typepad Hacks, then read the follow up post where readers submitted their ideas. These posts were not focused on non profit usage, so it’s up to us to determine if it will be useful.
If you come up with an idea, please post it in the comments here.
Assessing Bloggers' Full Political-Marketing Potential
AdAge is taking a poll (may
be closed now) and they are trying to asses the power of the
blogosphere in political marketing. In the background they cite the 2004 Dean campaign – run by my buddy Zack Rosen – and the recent Ned Lamont victory in Connecticut. Yet captains of the political machines are not willing to devote more than 1% or 2 % of their energy to blogging. The poll asks for your thoughts.
Here are mine. It is not the activity that counts, it is the
audience that get the message that is important. Lets face facts – barely 58% of the total US population voted in 2004!
So why should you waste time, money, and energy getting messages out to
them. Your rally cries fall on deaf ears! The blogoshpere is populated
with a higher percent of engaged and socially active people compared to
the national average. The blogosphere is interactive and stirs up
conversation and discussion. TV adds simply interrupt reruns and
provide a respite during the evening news.
I wish Gallup would take an exit poll of of people and ask them if
they blog, read blogs, or participate in on-line community. I bet dime
to dollar that more voters have that type of profile and the trend will
grow as we move into the future. I think it is less about the power of
the blog and more about the power of targeting the people who will
actually act. That is why political blogging is real community
mobilization.
Second Life Relay in Blogher
Beth Kanter writes up the Second Life session from Netsquared on Blogher. She was nice enough to talk a bit about our Second Life Relay For Life event comming up July 22-23. In her posting she vistis the Full Moon art meuseum and discovers one of our SLRFL
donation kiosk and posters. I was very please to see these kiosks up
all over the SL and have been seeing some amazing fundrasing ideas so
far. SLRFL this year is going to be HUGE! I hope Beth will stop by the event and
blogher about it!
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