There’s a new Pew Internet study out re: how people search for health information online.  What’s disturbing is that most users aren’t checking the source of the returned results. Makes me wonder where this leaves ACS and the importance of search engine optimization!  Our credibility as a trusted resource may not matter as much online?!?!  [...]

This conference looks interesting, so sharing it today: Net Neutrality, and the SavetheInternet.com Coalition update: On January 12-14 in Memphis, many of the more than 6,000 bloggers that form the core of SavetheInternet.com Coalition will come together at the National Conference for Media Reform in Memphis. Please join me there: Blog from the National Conference [...]

Has ACS thought about ways to engage this social network opportunity – gather.com – especially looking at the target age range for cancer testing:
"If you’re not on Gather, you’re not part of the conversation. Who belongs on Gather? Everyone — from professional authors to first-time writers, photographers to bloggers and beyond. Gather is a place [...]

Check out "Your Favorite Bloggers" from BusinessWeek.com using readers’ top 12 choices: "More than 75,000 blogs are created every day, according to Technorati. But for BusinessWeek.com readers, there’s a handful of standouts.From Henry Blodget’s take on the Internet (even now), to the unvarnished opinions of Mark Cuban’s Blog Maverick, to the trenchant tech insights at [...]

How cool is this. I hope our Mosiac of Memories project turns out 50% as cool and easy to use as this. It’s Yahoo’s Digital TIme Capsule and here is what they have to say about it: 
"We think there’s no one better suited to teach future generations
what the world was like in 2006. For [...]

Todays WSJ article Myspace ByeSpace tells the other side of rapid social network growth – alienation of core users.  As I wrote in a previous post, the opening up of Facebook.com registration to anyone has caused some of its core users to leave the site.  The Official Petition to Keep Facebook Limited to Students
says that [...]

Check out Corante’s Innovation Hub this week. There are several entries of interest including blogs from the recent innovation conferences and an interesting blog Innovation 101: "It’s conference season, and I’ve had the chance to attend innovation conferences at the Business Innovation Factory, the Innovation Immersion conference in San Diego, and I’m currently attending the [...]

There’s a great series of videos being posted on the MIT Center for Cancer Research site. They had a two-day conference back in June about cancer research at MIT. It has resulted in an 11-part series of videos of the lectures. Several of the videos have been posted, but several will be added in the [...]

Don’t be too selective with your identification of prospective donors.   A true story of a janitor at a nonprofit who was passed over for a planned gift … he had  major real estate holdings and was worth millions.
Do have a good volunteer network to help you. Planned Gift donors can easily sell others on the [...]

Listening to PopTech presenters yesterday ( Bruce Sterling, Blaine Brownell and Alex Steffen) on environmental design and technologies I thought about the fragility of the
planet and the need for leaders to promote and create a world using
technologies that do not destroy the planet. As a leader in the promotion of healthy living to prevent cancer: [...]