Nothing could make me more proud to be an American Cancer Society employee than the following announcement (from the Link, folks): American Cancer Society Involvement in the PBS Series: "Remaking American Medicine" In support of the American Cancer Society’s nationwide priority to improve quality of life services and policies through community mobilization, collaboration, and advocacy, the Society has committed to ...
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As many of you know one of my new hobbies is working on various Wikipedia entries for the Society. If you don’t know what Wikipedia is, it’s the free-content encyclopedia that anyone can edit. It has over 500,000 articles so far. Anyway go check out the American Cancer Society page I created. Feel free to help me edit it!
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Arienna Foley at Get Real has a good post about the social networking qualities of Flickr. I think she gets at why Flickr draws people in and creates community more than any other photo site. Again I say, I think Flickr offers to the ACS a cheap opportunity to explore the power of community building and of pushing an event ...
Read More »Can ACS-TV be far behind?
From Wired: Former Vice President Al Gore unveiled a new interactive cable TV channel for the internet generation Monday that blends the immediacy of video blogging with the voyeurism of reality TV. Current TV, formerly known as IndTV, will be launched Aug. 1 and will aim to combine the interactivity of the internet with the couch-potato pleasures of TV. The ...
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