It’s odd the connections we make on the Blogosphere. Cary of Cancer NewsWatch pinged us while we were guest blogging for Darren. As often happens we became blog buddies. His wife Lori has cancer. She also has a blog—Too sexy for my hair- a young woman’s cancer blog. Please read her story.
Does this post sound a bit strange to you on a business blog? We talk about building community online. We talk about building relationships through blogs. This isn’t your typical BusinessBlogConsulting post. This isn’t about business at all. It’s about being human, it’s about doing what we can as people who when others need our help.
Lori and Cary are going through some especially hard times right now. They need the support of their online friends.
What can we do? We can do a lot. We can show what “community”
really means. Online or offline. We can subscribe to Lori’s and Cary’s
blogs. We can read them. We can click ad links. We can lend
expertise. We can support them.
We may not be able to bring them brownies, or a lasagna, but as
virtual neighbors we can stop by for a visit and leave a supportive
comment. By the way, Cary and Lori did not ask us to write this post.
We just felt it was the right thing to do.
Remember the line, oft used in superhero movies, "with great power
comes great responsibility"? This is our way of trying to help.
Signed Tris & Toby
I’ll have my people make a saml button to link to her blog, and we could ask everyone to ask everyone to go and lend a hand.
Bravo Tris and Toby
I’ll send the button.
Comment by Jim Turner — August 5, 2005 @ 8:32 pm
That should read small button. It’s late.
Comment by Jim Turner — August 5, 2005 @ 8:32 pm
Jim’s “people” is me.. LoL.. and here’s the button. Please feel free to distribute it as you wish.
Comment by Shylah Erskin — August 5, 2005 @ 9:03 pm
Thank you for the comments … The button is in the post above …
Comment by Tris Hussey — August 6, 2005 @ 7:49 am
Hi Tris & Toby,
I just wanted to publically acknowledge how kind you have been by writing this lovely post, and making people aware of our plight. We are incredibly touched by your spirit of giving. We all have our burdens, and somehow this was the burden we were chosen to bare. Thanks for offering your help…you are much too kind. I am touched to the point of tears.
Your friends always,
-Cary & Lori
Comment by Cary — August 6, 2005 @ 2:53 pm
How You Can Help
Hi Friends, I just wanted to take this chance to say thanks to Toby Tris for the lovely, and heart-felt post they wrote about us over at Business Blog Consulting. Lori I are always so incredibly touched when people
Trackback by Cancer NewsWatch — August 8, 2005 @ 5:30 pm
You Are All Too Kind…
I’m finding myself rather speechless. Yesterday, Lori I came back from our emergency 5-day “decompressionâ€? break to find that the entire cost of our trip (which we wondered how we would pay for even as we were attempting to
Trackback by Cancer NewsWatch — August 15, 2005 @ 11:07 am