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Have you noticed that the automatic tally of the Eastern Division’s cancer awareness badge is up to 95!  That’s 95 people in the blogosphere who’ve decided to take up the fight against cancer, post this badge and (hopefully) share their cancer experience. You too can get one and add it to your blog today.  What’s a cancer awareness badge? It’s ...

Remember a few years back when naysayers were warning the internet would make us alienated and isolated, and maybe it would destroy our family and social life? The highly respected Pew Internet & American Life Project has just released a report titled "The Strength of Internet Ties" finding that those worries were unfounded. I think this report is so significant I’m ...

I’ve just been in Second Life with ACS colleagues. We were at a Future Salon meeting and then got together at the Relay For Life site. I understand we’ll have another Relay event there this summer. The last Relay there netted $6,000. Hey, that’s pretty good for a start. Hopefully we’ll have a permanent presence there, a "virtual" unit. I’ve ...

As a follow up to the Les Blogs conference – you can view the presentations on the Les Blog 2.0 Video Archive. The conference was held in December, and "organized by SixApart and others, including sponsors O4Media (alpha) which provided all the video animation technology and taped the conference using videoblogging; vpod.tv (alpha) is hosting the video files and provided ...