Archive for July, 2007

Simply Amazing…..Real Walking at the SLRFL

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

The maze of cancer care

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

There’s a really good article in today’s NYTimes about how complicated and distressing  treatment can be for cancer patients. It’s a blow-by-blow of one woman’s struggle to survive. There’s also a good video in the left column about another situation.

Corporate Mareters are failing in Second Life while Communities Thrive.

Monday, July 30th, 2007

This Wired Article
is great. It absolutely goes down the list as to wy traditional
advertising may not work as well in Second Life as it does in Real
Life. What it is missing is the other side of the story that highlights
local brands that are thriving. The marketing companies are not doing
sufficient engagement within the community to [...]

Giving Hits Record $295 Billion in 2006

Monday, July 30th, 2007

Led by a good year in the stock market, Americans gave an estimated $295.02 billion during 2006 saysThe Non Profit Time, July 1, 2007.  That is an increase of $11.97 billion more than in 2005, the third year that giving has increased.
Health giving was $20.22 billion or 6.9% of the total.   While faith giving tended [...]

The best thing since sliced bread…..Tune your Run

Friday, July 13th, 2007

No really I mean that. If you are a runner and haven’t heard of the Apple Nike collaboration than I am not sure where you have been living. Basically Apple took something that every runner has (an ipod) and married it with something else every runner has (shoes). The Nike+Apple system works by letting your [...]

Where in the World Is….Lisa Meyers?

Friday, July 13th, 2007

Hi FISpace Family:  I’ve missed you!  Thank you for letting me take a little hiatus and for welcoming me back.  Please indulge me as I get caught up on the conversation and try to dive back in….with a group like this, I’m sure it’s going to be a steep curve, so your patience is really, [...]

Google backroad is main avenue

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

How true is that? Check out this excerpt from this week’s Advertising Age
A company, maybe yours, has a home page on its website where it
organizes the user experience so that users can learn more about the
company, its products, its vertical solutions and so on. The idea is
based on going from the highest "levels" of [...]

We Have It ALL Together, For Now

Monday, July 2nd, 2007

In 1985 Relay for Life had one participant and brought in $27,000.  The next year we had 19 teams. In 2006 there were at least 4800 communities and we brought in $375 million.  And that does not count Making Strides which accounted for another $40 million in 2006.
We brought in three times more in 2006 [...]