The Breastcancer.org User Experience
By Derek Olson on August 18th, 2011 Categories: Inside Breastcancer.orgI’ve been working with Breastcancer.org since the summer of 2000. It has been an amazing journey. I’ve watched this website grow from humble beginnings—a few dozen visitors a day—into the most popular breast cancer website in the world.
It is a neverending job to keep a world-class website up and running.
There’s expensive hardware that has to stay running all day and all night, every …
Donate or Bid – You Can Make a Difference!
By Maria McDonald on March 2nd, 2011 Categories: Inside Breastcancer.org[Editor's Note: These auctions have been discontinued. Thank you for your support!]
So much to do, and so little time… I know we all say it. Though, somewhere in all of that, we say to ourselves, “I would love to do something to make a difference.”
Here at Breastcancer.org, we are hoping our whole community can help make a difference. We’ve teamed up with an …
My Most Memorable BCO Moment: Meeting Lori
By Karen Young on October 21st, 2010 Categories: Inside Breastcancer.orgI’d been working at Breastcancer.org for about 2 weeks. It was my first assignment – do a video about Breastcancer.org and our girls’ prevention initiative.
We were doing the video shoot over the weekend at Lankenau Hospital outside of Philadelphia. We had set up interviews with a number of patients treated by Breastcancer.org founder and president Dr. Marisa Weiss.
I arrived early with the film …
My Most Memorable BCO Moment: Strength in Numbers
By Claire Nixon on October 8th, 2010 Categories: Inside Breastcancer.orgThere probably isn’t one specific moment about working at Breastcancer.org that stands out above and beyond all others. It’s more the day-to-day experience of planning and improving our web content — always looking at what else our audience needs from us — and recruiting great experts who can answer those very specific treatment questions.
When I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1998, I was …
My Most Memorable BCO Moment: The Power of Words and Knowledge
By Jamie DePolo on September 22nd, 2010 Categories: Inside Breastcancer.orgI fell in love with writing and the power of words in first grade when my teacher said we could borrow any books we’d like from her in-class library. I devoured almost everything she had, amazed by the authors’ abilities to take me far out of my suburban Detroit existence into exotic worlds populated by people who didn’t work on the line for Ford or …
