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Share Your Story

The March of Dimes has relaunched an amazing social networking site called Shareyourstory.org.  Share is one of the most heart warming and heart breaking sites I have been to.  Mothers of premature babies share their stories and derive hope and support from each other via blogs, and message boards.  The site is visually beautiful and the content is so genuine.  I feel that these types of sites, similar to the American Cancer Society's Cancer Survivors Network are two of the most noble and effective uses of technology to life and support the human spirit.

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I’ve been posting some about the March of Dimes “Share Your Story” online community, and there will surely be more soon. Nancy and I are working on a case study/story about the birth of Share (pardon the pun). For now though, I want to point you to wha... [Read More]

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They went from having 4 to 40+ blogs in about 3 weeks. All they did was promote it, improve functionality and provide suggestions and off it went ...

Randal, thanks for this link. I also came across the site on global walk for breast cancer today (it is cross posted on David's blog - am sure you must have seen it). truly moving. am linking to this from my blog. cheers, Charukesi

oops, what was I thinking - it is not David but Chris. sorry, Chris!

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