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Take a virtual walk for charity

Is virtual walking in your future?According to a recent Reuters' story, you can take a "virtual walk" and raise money for charity without ever leaving your house.Do you think that virtual walking takes away some of the sweat and hard work that "real" walkers undertake for charity?Is virtual walking something...

Tags: Sonja Thompson, survivor, Komen

Discussion threads 2007-10-10

And the fight is on

And the fight is onA good write Tig. I was waiting for a pm on this?Exams, serious as a heart attack, yet still not done. People just are too afraid of knowing it seems like.Most of my time has been to the Cancer Society in general, but do...

Tags: breast cancer, cancer, awareness, tiggertwo, disease, off-topic, Komen

Discussion threads 2006-05-14

Additional Resources

Mother's Day, Susan G. Komen

Catch one of our favorite People Who Care, Rene Syler scheduled to be on the Today Show May 9 and help support Susan G. Komen for the Cure by shopping for Mom at http://www.nonprofitshoppingmall.com for a gift that gives back. Choose Susan G. Komen as the nonprofit a percent of...

Tags: Susan G. Komen, Happy Mother

Discussion threads 2008-05-01

Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Expands Online Content With Self Publishing

For 25 years, the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation has been a global leader in the fight against breast cancer through its support of innovative research, community-based outreach programs, and events like the Komen Race for the Cure. The organization wanted to provide syndicated information via its Web site,...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Breast Cancer, Foundation, Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Web Technology, Content Management, Web Site Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet

Case studies 2007-02-22

Check it out!!!!

I don't know if anyone has posted this before or not...Visit this link: http://www.thebreastcancersite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=2My grandmother a breast cancer survivor sent this to me.Simply click on the button and the sponsors will pay for a free mammogram for someone in need.There are no pop-ups, you don't have to put any...

Tags: Gender and diversity, Inkling, Susan G. Komen, mammogram, women, breast cancer

Discussion threads 2007-09-28

Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation

As many of you know one of the TR members is participating in the 3-Day event to help eradicate breast cancer through research, education, screening and treatment. TR link to "Join the Pink Ribbon Brigade" http://tinyurl.com/qxzxnA link was posted there with the hope that there would be coverage of the...

Tags: cancer, edited out, HaveFun_Peace, ItsTheInThingToDo, NB_HaveFun_Peace, NeverBusted, news, off-topic, Ol' NB, OnTheRopes, tr membership support, WCCO website

Discussion threads 2006-08-18

The Race for a Cure- Mother's Day 2007

As many of you know, I walk the Breast Cancer 3 Day- 20 miles a day for three consecutive days in August. This year that walk takes place on the 24th, 25th, and 26th of August. What you may not know is that my fiance and I also...

Tags: TiggerTwo, Susan G. Komen

Discussion threads 2007-05-12

Buy a Monty Python t-shirt, help cure breast cancer

So what does a fellow do you do if he's built his castle on swampland and needs to acquire some more stable real estate to further his future investments? Why, he looks for his one true love--a woman who can fill out this t-shirt from ThinkGeek. And if you can't...

Tags: Love, Real Estate, Corporate Communications, Investment, Business Operations, Marketing, Finance, Jay Garmon

Blog posts 2007-10-26

IT and Awareness: The Booby Wall

For really what is the first time, we are using vehicles to promote awareness that we hadn't used in the past. Initially, you could only find links to fundraising efforts and the various organizations. Today, you can keep yourself quite busy simply by putting the words "breast cancer awareness" into...

Tags: Women, Information Technology, Breast Cancer, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, Tricia Liebert

Blog posts 2008-01-11

Anonymous email

Recently I have had several people in a variety of geographical areas send me an email about a variant of breast cancer called Inflammatory Breast Cancer or IBC.IBC is the rarest form of breast cancer, accounting for 1%-3% of all breast cancers. The email was started by someone who...

Tags: TiggerTwo, IBC, e-mail

Discussion threads 2006-09-26

Email pet peeves

Certain things about email bother me.1. I always request a Read Receipt. Some of my regular email correspondents send one, others never do so I'm left wondering if I got filtered to their Spam folder or something else went wrong. How hard is it to send a Read Receipt...

Tags: e-mail

Discussion threads 2008-09-06

The 3 Day- Tig's June News

To those that have asked that I keep them up on the Breast Cancer 3Day.Well, it’s June. Another busy month gone by! We be WALKIN!It’s hard to believe that we are only two months away from the event. When we started, it seemed like a long time...

Tags: pair, shoe, tiggertwo, breast cancer awareness, boy are my feet tired, off-topic, donation, New Balance, partnership

Discussion threads 2006-06-16

6 weeks and counting- The3Day, 2007

I had to take a moment and thank everyone who jumped in to donate to something that I think is worthy enough to train 600 miles for and walk 60 in three days.I set a higher bar this year and I worked my tail off in various fundraising activities- but...

Tags: TiggerTwo, Now IT, walk, donation

Discussion threads 2007-07-17

Video: TR Out Loud - June 13, 2008

I've been trying toadd my comments as I can but the past few weeks have been way to busy for me. New business manager coming in, new ISP for all 3 businesses, random computers blowing up... the usual really, just more off it.Keep it up Sonja, I really enjoyed...

Tags: Corporate communications, Workforce management, E-mail, training and certification, Breast Cancer 3 Day, TROLOV, Sonja, training, walk, Komen Race, video

Discussion threads 2008-06-13

hey gg!!

before I go get that picture taken, is that danged "Men of TR" calendar actually going to be made? :pOn behalf of GG !!OF COURSE !!! You didnt think you could get away that easily. Men !!]:)Do you really think......that anyone would pay for a picture of me in my...

Tags: Jaqui, mandatory tagging sucks, off-topic, photograph

Discussion threads 2006-06-26

IT and Awareness: The Booby Wall

IT and Awareness:As we become more technologically advanced, it is my hope that we will continue to use technology in ways that empower us. I think that the Booby Wall is a great use of technology to discuss a difficult subject on a variety of levels. What are...

Tags: Gender and diversity, information technology, breast cancer, prostate cancer, breast, Booby Wall, women

Discussion threads 2008-01-11

Are you prepared to Google your medical records?

No Thanks.The Idea of somehow having access to ones own medical care is or could be good. But some how having Google involved would bother me. We do need a system, and it should have been established a long time ago. Normally this is where a Government Agency* would have...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, Google Inc., medical record, health care, patient

Discussion threads 2008-02-29

Michael J. Fox, Stem Cell Research and El Rushbo

http://www.comcast.net/entertainment/index.jsp?fn=2006/10/25/230710.html&cvqh=itn_foxThe above link is to a Comcast news article detailing Rush's remarks about Fox's scenes on the democrat attack ads for the up coming election. MJF has always been a likable figure to all Americans especially those generation X ers like me who grew up with his movies in the...

Tags: abortion, michael j fox, off-topic, ProtiusX, rush, stem cell research, stem-cell

Discussion threads 2006-10-25

A slow steady march to the pink

I get to offline for the next couple of days and get ready for my first big fundraiser for the 3 Day.If you're new here, I walk 60 miles in three days for the purpose of raising both $$$ and awareness of breast cancer. Oh, and train around 600...

Tags: Pink Ribbon Brigade, breast cancer, good thought, prayer, donation

Discussion threads 2008-03-26

Do you participate in political polls?

Since it's campaign season, I've had several dinnertime calls over the past several weeks asking questions about whom I support or asking about political issues. Maybe I get a lot of these because I live in a small state.I have not signed up for the Do Not Call...

Tags: DMambo, Do-Not-Call

Discussion threads 2006-10-06