Entries from September 2007 ↓
September 23rd, 2007 — Articles Trackposted to the Garden, Pink for October
Well, here’s an announcement about a party that the Garden is already prepared for!
The Pink for October program asks websites to “go pink” for the month in order to encourage and support breast cancer awareness. In honor of the campaign, Natalie Joost has designed two free WordPress themes to make it easy for bloggers to transform their sites. Both are great-looking layouts and can be downloaded here. If you don’t want to change your theme but do want to adopt a pink color scheme, she is offering several choices.
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September 4th, 2007 — Articles Trackposted to the Garden, The Rising Blogger
The Rising Blogger is, like the Magical Rose Garden, a blog that spotlights other blogs. But its approach is different.
Instead of featuring blogs as a whole, the Rising Blogger focuses on a single post from each site that it features. And its proprietor, Judd Corizan, bestows upon the author a Rising Blogger Award that can be proudly displayed on his/her site. Judd offers readers the opportunity to nominate posts. And after a blogger has received the award, he asks them to “pay it forward” by nominating another writer for the honor. 
What impressed us about Judd’s efforts is the fact that genuinely appreciates good writing. He actively seeks out posts that contribute to the conversations taking place here in cyberspace each day by sharing a unique perspective, remembrance or experience that we can all relate to, learn from or enjoy a chuckle over.
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September 3rd, 2007 — Articles Trackposted to the Garden, Especially Heather
Heather, like WhyMommy, has cancer. Heather is blogging about it, too.
Fear not, ye who are cynical readers. The Garden is not going to be spotlighting only blogs maintained by folks with cancer.
However, after stumbling upon Heather’s blog, we felt it definitely deserved to be in the spotlight even though it follows our focus on WhyMommy’s battle.
Heather explains that she was diagnosed in April 2007 with a brain tumor: Anaplastic Oligoastrocytoma (mixed tumor. Surgeons removed 99.9% of the growth and she is presently undergoing chemotherapy and radiation. Two surgeons told her that the tumor was inoperable. But in testament yet again to the power of the Internet and the communities established in cyberspace, her readers raised more than $14,000 so that she could travel to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota where a top neurosurgeon not only provided a different response, but operated immediately.
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