{"id":113,"date":"2004-06-05T07:11:02","date_gmt":"2004-06-05T11:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/05\/komen-foundation-message-boards\/"},"modified":"2017-04-06T06:44:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T10:44:07","slug":"komen-foundation-message-boards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/komen-foundation-message-boards\/","title":{"rendered":"Komen Foundation | Message Boards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.komen.org\/intradoc-cgi\/idc_cgi_isapi.dll?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&#038;nodeId=298\">Race For The Cure <\/a>walk\/run in Washington, DC. Like  <A style='text-decoration:none;' TITLE='Spamerchiethycom' HREF='https:\/\/spamerchiethycom.wordpress.com' >last year,<\/A>  the weather isn&#8217;t great. Thought I&#8217;d scan the organization&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.komen.org\/forums\/modules\/forums\/Default.aspx\">message boards <\/a>to see what the chatter was, if others were also thinking of staying home or whatever.<br \/>\nThe boards seem to be a great support mechanism for helping and healing. I was however surprised that there wasn&#8217;t a local tie-in to the boards. Figured that I&#8217;d at least find a pointer to a local <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\">Yahoo<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/groups-beta.google.com\/\">Google Group <\/a>or something. This is probably a missed opportunity in terms of leveraging the organization&#8217;s passionate supporters. If they organized supporters on a local level, they might see a lift in fundraising efforts.<br \/>\nI did some more looking and found local space on the site. Here, they take advantage of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kintera.org\/site\/pp.asp?c=9qLQKYNGE&#038;b=6442\">Kintera&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/nationalraceforthecure.kintera.org\/faf\/email\/emailFriend.asp?ievent=41869&#038;lis=1&#038;kntae41869=F109F3247EF74DF68BBA0C215B6C06CA\">nifty fundraising tools <\/a>through story sharing. They could probably do more in the relationship building area though. A local tie-in might even get involved with or grow <a href=\"http:\/\/bcs.meetup.com\">local Meetups<\/a>.<br \/>\nOh well, just thoughts on a rainy, Saturday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the Race For The Cure walk\/run in Washington, DC. Like last year, the weather isn&#8217;t great. Thought I&#8217;d scan the organization&#8217;s message boards to see what the chatter was, if others were also thinking of staying home or whatever. The boards seem to be a great support mechanism for helping and healing. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1900,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/1900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}