In the last 4 days (since I had this idea) I have received a lot of support both verbally (well, textually) and in the form of action.
Tammie Lister designed what the site will look like next.
Nick Oder is coding up the design and making it play nice with Wordpress.
Brian Gilham was “up most of the night working on” working on a mini site specifically focusing on men. I am not linking it yet because I don’t know if it is ready for prime-time so to speak.
This is something I planned on adding to this site as well. As I mentioned to Brian, “my tack was to focus on how men can talk to each other and to the women they know about this subject without resorting to sentences like, ‘I want to save your boobies!’ Which, while completely funny and ice-breaky, isn’t where the conversation should stop.” We don’t know how we will work together yet, but we will make it happen.
Many 9rulers have shown support within the Member Forum and on their own sites, as have others.
I am in the beginning conversations with the Komen Foundation about how to handle donations. I think they are a good US-based organisation, but I would also like some help identifying some non-US orgs, or even an international org. If you know of a good one, please leave a comment.
There is more to come of course. I am not able to work on this full-time, so it isn’t going as fast as I hoped, but things are moving forward. I just want to thank everyone who has commented so far, who is displaying a button on their site, and those who have patiently waited while I tried to explain exatly what I need.
And speaking of needing… When you finish reading this either on the site or via the feed (bloglines sub, feedburner), please email or IM one person you know and ask them to visit this site.
Brian Gilham
Thanks for the mention, Matthew. The mini site is being worked on and I’m hoping to open it up to visitors in the next day or two.
As mentioned, we’ll find a way to partner up and make it work. ;-)