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A Photo Worth More Than 1,000 Words

July 27, 2010

I recently came across tagxedo, a tool that allows you to create a word cloud from a blog, webpage, twitter stream, etc. The cloud includes repeated words from the target site and arranges them by size, according to usage. As we approach the five year anniversary of this blog, it’s a good point to look back at the popular words from our blog entries. As expected, donate life, organ, transplant, donor, community and Illinois are the largest words because they are used the most often. The end result is this great image below. Pretty cool, right? Feel free to post, share and even use as your profile photo.

-Nick

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Musician and Donor Advocate Performing in Chicago

July 23, 2010

Musician and Donate Life advocate Alex Band is coming to town. Alex is the former lead singer of The Calling and is now solo. He’ll be performing a show at Schuba’s in Chicago on Thursday, July 29. Come show your support!

Click here to purchase tickets for the show.

Alex was affected by organ donation when his wife was placed on the transplant wait list for a new liver. Alex has been an advocate for donor registration and has supported Donate Life in many ways. Just how dedicated is he? Alex shared this video of getting a Donate Life tattoo. Now that’s dedication.

-Nick

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Online Donation Community Continues to Grow

July 22, 2010

A big welcome to Washington Regional Transplant Community (WRTC) as the newest donation affiliated organization to join the Twittersphere. You may remember WRTC for the creative and moving 30 Days, 30 Stories video series they shared during National Donate Life Month. WRTC joins many other Donate Life affiliated organizations providing valuable information and serving as a resource for the donation community. Now, more than ever, social media sites are also helping individuals find and communicate with transplant donors. Take a look at the following articles for recent stories about online donation connections:

Kidney donor found on Internet answers Sullivan man’s prayers

Fate, social networking draw two women together in hope

Start following @BeA_Donor and other donation organizations to stay connected. Check out our Donate Life Social Media Resource Guide for a list of all Donate Life affiliated organizations on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and more. If you are a representative from an organization affiliated with Donate Life America and would like us to add your site or profile to our listings, please leave a comment with a link to your site or email us at donatelifeillinois@gmail.com.

-Nick