The Myth Of The Shallow Heart - How Social Networks Effect Real-World Change
Released on: October 25, 2007, 9:41 am
Press Release Author: Je Maverick
Industry: Computers
Press Release Summary: In an effort to raise breast cancer awareness, poet and
humanitarian Jé Maverick has ventured into an area of womens
health where most men
fail to go.
Press Release Body: \"FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\" Thursday October 25, 2007 Canberra,
Australia
In an effort to raise breast cancer awareness, poet and humanitarian Jé Maverick has
ventured into an area
of womens health where most men fail to go, with the
launching of a blogging campaign on social networking site, Myspace - aptly titled
\"Blogging For Boobs\".
\"The response to the campaign for breast
cancer awareness has been tremendous,\" Mr
Maverick states. \"Social networking sites are often looked down upon as poor cousins
by various sectors of the blogging community, but I have found it to be the most
rewarding platform to operate on - if one truly regards blogs as \"conversation\".
Many of the major bloggers around the internet have this week been focused on the
Google PageRank alterations, an event that the bloggers on social networks have been
blissfully unaware of.\"
\"The hyperlink is the greatest triumph of our era - more so than the machinery and
technologies that enable it. And with the acceptance amongst IT business leaders
that user-generated content is the wave on which the current internet boom shall
ride, for the first time in history the voiceless and the marginalised have been
granted with the keys to the kingdom. If you believe the suggestions that the
Internet is only in its infancy, the possibilities for the humanitarian, non-profit
and philanthropic sectors are thrilling. Social consciousness and social networks
are a perfect fit.\"
In a response to \"anti-pink\" comments, Mr Maverick suggests that the Anti-Pink
movement should politely re-affirm their commitment to the search for a cure.
\"The search for a cure can - and should - co-exist with campaigns
to eliminate
breast cancer in the first instance,\" he believes. \"To suggest
otherwise is true
baby-with-the-bathwater logic, as well as an insult to the 500,000 women around the
world who die of breast cancer each year. Nobody should get left behind.\"
\"Blogging For Boobs\" will take place at http://blog.myspace.com/jemaverick on
Sunday, 28th October, 2007. All proceeds raised will be donated
to the International
Breast Cancer Research Foundation. For all information on how
to submit links,
please refer to http://blog.myspace.com/jemaverick, or email pr@webforhumanity.org
for details.
Contact:
Web For Humanity Public Relations
+61430579983
pr@webforhumanity.org
ATT: Jé Maverick
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Web Site: http://blog.myspace.com/jemaverick
Contact Details: Web For Humanity Public Relations
5/85 Northbourne Ave
TURNER ACT 2612
Australia
+61430579983
pr@webforhumanity.org
ATT: Jé Maverick
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