Breast Cancer Public Service Announcement

We have all been touched by cancer, somewhere in our lives, please visit the site below.

I think a link on your blog or an email to your friends would be an appropriate way to spread the word. It is a very important cause. Won’t you help?

Visit the website.

[Edited for additional content 10-27-06]

Ok, time for a confession of sorts. This post wasn’t really all my idea. A good friend of mine included me on an email chain letter. I get them all the time and they are usually about Bill Gates giving away his fortune, or Google having an email tracking program test, or something miraculous happening if you send the letter on to just 10 more people in the next 20 minutes. They aren’t all from my one friend (just so you don’t think she is the culprit) but I get enough of them that I usually do research on ones that sound legit just to make sure. This morning I got the Pink M&Ms email from Laura and did the research, turns out to be true. So I created an email of my own with links to show that it was true (Snopes and the actual M&M site) and sent that off to about 100 people in my contact list.

So far so good. Then I got the idea that I could promote the thing even better if I were to put it on my blog. I mean, I have thousands… no wait… hundreds… er… ok maybe dozens of viewers on a weekly basis and I could make a post that would inform them all of this wonderful idea. Then they could tell others, and so on. Then it hit me that if we got the article posted to recruiting.com and exposed it in the recruiting blogosphere… well then more than a few dozen people would be exposed to the idea and it would happen before Halloween (traditionally the largest candy buying season of the entire year) so the promotion should explode with purchasers… all driven by the altruistic nature of the blogger nation.

With that plan in mind, I put together a quick, short post and sent a note to a couple of people. The recruiting animal was nice enough to post the article to recruiting.com (Mike, I don’t really do executive chef’s BTW – positions CEC Search recruits for are here) so I think we are on our way. I thought that within a few hours we would have Pink M&M posts on all the major blogs. Boy was I wrong.

I guess I just don’t have any juice. I’m not a big name blogger, so what I write can’t be important. It isn’t controversial enough. I don’t usually insult people or make fun of them. After all, how important can a post promoting an easy way to donate money to Breast Cancer research be when the pundits of the recruiting blog world can be cross posting about recruiting.com V 2.0 and how bad it is, or cutting down Monster’s executives, or acting envious of someone else’s Internet property. Heck we have poker to discuss or ‘transparency’ or some equally important ‘stuff.’

I’m not going to get breast cancer (men can get it but the statistical chance is infinitesimal for me.) My mom isn’t going to get breast cancer because she died in a car accident in 1984. BUT my wife could get it. My daughter could get it. My stepmother could get it. I’d like for there to be a cure. So I think it makes sense to get involved. I’m pretty sure that each of the people reading this have a woman or a girl that they really care about, and if you do, you should care about the research. You should care about the cure.

If you run a blog or write for a blog, please make a post about Pink M&Ms right away, before Halloween. Someone you care about very much may be saved because of it. -Carl