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Because this is the third year for Pink for October, we’ve had time and luck with building up a lot of support from web designers. For 2008, it’s easy to Go Pink.
I’ve said before that Pink for October should have a low bar for entry: Turn your site pink, link to us. The latter is easy, but I get a lot of questions about the former. “How much pink is enough?”
As I said previously, I just changed some of the text on my personal site pink and added an image in the sidebar linking here. But if you want to go further than I did, this post is for you.
Here you can find a short list of links to resources for Going Pink on your site.
Wordpress
Essential Keystrokes has cultivated 13 very nice Wordpress themes from around the web that will do the trick for Going Pink.
You can, of course, Google for pink themes, too.
Twitter
Twitter Patterns, a site offering free background designs for your Twitter page, has put together some backgrounds specifically for Pink for October.
As a side note, if you redesign your Twitter page for Going Pink, consider linking your bio to Pink for October for the next 30 days.
Bebo
There are a couple of themes (skins) for Bebo related to Pink for October…
Bebo members accounted at least a third of last years total number of sites that Went Pink.
Et al.?
Got any others? Please link them up in the comments.
I mentioned a few days ago that I would be organizing a contest here on Pink for October to get more people involved during the Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Now, let me tell you more about the contest:
1. I will post 2 breast-cancer-related words every week, one on Mondays and one on Thursdays, at 12 am (GMT). Check your time here.
2. You will then take a picture that best describes the word, and write a description of that picture on your blog. Your picture and description may or may not be breast-cancer-related (it is a very flexible game and is entirely up to your creativity) but I would encourage you to write about breast cancer related stuff because it’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month! :D
3. After publishing your post on your blog, you should announce it in the comments section on my post, so that other players could visit your blog. Who knows, we might all learn something new everyday!
4. You will have time to post your picture and description until the next word is posted. Once the next word is posted, the comments section for the previous word will be closed and a winner will randomly be selected.
5. The first word will be announced on Thursday, October 2nd, the final word will be announced on Monday, October 27th and all winners will be announced on Friday, October 31st.
Is everything clear? Anybody has any questions, before we begin?
P/S: I am still looking for sponsors for this contest. Would you like to be one of our sponsors? Send me an email, and I will tell you more about it :D
– Pelf Nyok
Christina Applegate with host, Oprah Winfrey
Christina Applegate, an Emmy Award-winning American actress, known for playing Kelly Bundy on the long-running FOX Broadcasting Company sitcom Married… with Children, will kick off National Breast Cancer Awareness Month on The Oprah Winfrey Show by setting the record straight about her breast cancer. She recently had a double mastectomy and is now cancer free, without having undergone chemo.
The upcoming episode will be aired on Tuesday, September 30, so please mark your calendar. Also, check out the 35-second promotional video clip.
Also on the show will be Nancy Brinker, who brought breast cancer to the forefront after founding the Susan G. Komen Foundation, and subsequently the 5K Race for the Cure. To date, the foundation has raised over $11 billion for the cause!
– Pelf Nyok
Hello ladies and gentlemen, girls and boys, my name is Pelf. Yeah, I know I said that already but I just wanted to make sure you that remember my name because in the next few weeks, I am going to run a contest here on Pink for October, and yes, there will be prizes up for grabs :D
But before that, let me quickly introduce myself.
I am a Malaysian grad-student and I maintain a personal blog — pelf-ism is contagious. I have been blogging since October 2005, but back then, I didn’t know that October was Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
By October 2006, I have spent enough time surfing the internet and blog-hopping that I not only learned that October was Breast Cancer Awareness Month, I learned a whole lot of other things too, but I won’t go into much details now. So in October 2006, I published the following posts on my blog:
And in October 2007, I thought I should do something more intense, like writing a series of blog posts on breast cancer. And that was what I did:
So this year, I am excited to be recruited by Matthew to join his Pink for October team :D To get more people involved, as in, turning their blogs pink and writing and spreading awareness on breast cancer related matters, I will be running a contest right here. Hence, I would really suggest that you subscribe to the feed NOW and keep yourself updated!
P/S: If you would like to be one of our contest sponsors, please let me know. For your information, some 3,000 bloggers turned their blogs pink in 2007, and we are expecting more bloggers to join us this year. With a little sponsorship, you are actually increasing your visibility. It’s a win-win situation. Really!
– Pelf Nyok