Last week during DSMA a question was asked about how we can do more to create more offline efforts and offline communications.  My biggest efforts for the offline world are communicating with JDRF and ADA local chapters and trying to get them to communicate together and work together for a larger goal of getting people with diabetes the information that they need.  One piece of that information being access to the DOC.  How do we go about this?  It sounds all fun and dandy to have the JDRF tell every single person they talk to about the DOC, but how do we do it?   Unfortunately,...

My second part of my summary for the Roche Social Media Summit 2011 is going to be about the JDRF.  My history with the JDRF is long and in a good standing relationship.  I have volunteered a lot of my time with the local JDRF chapter and have donated a fair amount of money.  When I was doing consulting as a full time gig, I was donating 10% of all of my contract service fees to JDRF and anywhere from 20-50% of my affiliate commissions to JDRF.  I still do the same, I just don’t do as much contract work as I once did last year.  Recently, I had started to wonder if I was donating...

It’s about that time of the year again to start preparing for the local JDRF walk.  I was really excited about this years walk because my mom and dad were thinking about flying down to Florida around that time and they were going to do the walk with me, so that would have been fun.  Unfortunately, the scheduling didn’t work out and they have to come down the following weekend.  I need to go online and create my team and start preparing the e-mails and letters and all the other fun things to try and spread the awareness and collect donations.  Sometimes it can be tough to ask...

Just as a reminder to everybody to help spread the word of two large campaigns going on right now from the Diabetes Research Institute and Diabetes Hands Foundation.  The DRI’s campaign is Be Part of a Cure and the DHF is the Big Blue Test.  Today I would like to let my local readers know about some local events that they may not already know about. The Greater West Palm Beach chapter of the JDRF is the one that I work the most with and have the best relationship with so I know most about their activities going on.  I encourage you to visit the JDRF website and reach out to your...

I am beginning to get my life back in order after the last couple of months have jsut been so hectic with moving, getting a new job, vacation, buying a new car, blah blah blah.  One of the things that is on my list is working with my local JDRF chapter and begin working on some projects for Type 1 adults because a lot of the things that they put on are for kids and families of children with diabetes, but to reach a larger base I think reaching out to the adults is key.  Also, a quick heads up on another project that I am working on involves all your #bgnow and twitter and Facebook...

Well, as I spoke about in yesterday’s post about missing the Roche social media summit, it sucked!  Luckily, this was a DOC event so of course our fellow friends were there tweeting everything good going on.  There seems to be a lot that was discussed and hopefully it will make an influence on decision makers minds and that things will get done. The tweet that stuck out the most to me was from @saraknic.  I don’t think it was a tweet, and I don’t know how it was said or who it was said to, but Manny put the quote on Twitter, “No other disease fights with...