A new awareness campaign for November

I want to launch a new NET Cancer awareness campaign on the various Walking with Jane sites–and on any other site that wants to use the materials–using multiple videos and posts during the month of November. To do that, I need your faces and/or your voices, carcinoid/NETs patients.

Written stories should be at least 300 words…

The campaign will be called Faces of Carcinoid/NETs (or some variation of the NET cancer names). For the first video or two, I need just pictures of people with NETs. Each video will contain 34 faces and open with a screen that says, “These are the faces of NET cancer.” Then the 34 pictures will flash on the screen in silence at about one second per face. The last screen will say, “Thirty-four new faces will join them today.”

Putting real faces on our disease

To create that video, I need permission from 34 people with NETs to let me use their likeness in the video. If you are willing, send me a note expressly giving me permission to do so with the picture you want me to use to walkingwithjane@gmail.com.

I need your faces and/or your voices…

The second set of videos will require more on your part. Make a 25 second video of yourself talking about your personal experience with carcinoid/NETs. I’ll put the same opening on it I use with the other video, but the close will say, “November 10 is NET Cancer Awareness Day.” After November 10, the new videos will say “November is NET Cancer Awareness Month in Massachusetts.” Again, send these to walkingwithjane@gmail.com with explicit permission to use them in this campaign.

Where the faces will go

I’d like to have at least 30 videos for this campaign for the month of November.

Make a 25 second video of yourself talking…

The videos will be posted on Facebook, Google+, our Walking with Jane Channel on YouTube and anywhere else I can think of, including radio and TV. Links will also be posted on walkingwithjane.org. I will also offer them to Caring for Carcinoid, the Carcinoid Cancer Foundation, the Healing NET Foundation, the NET Alliance, NANETs, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Ochsner–and anyone else who asks for them and has a legitimate use for them in raising money for, and awareness of, NET cancer.

Thirty full stories for this site

Finally, I would like to run 30 different personal NET cancer stories on walkingwithjane.org during the month of November. If you would like to write about your personal experience with NET cancer for a broader audience, please contact me at walkingwithjane@gmail.com. Stories should be at least 300 words and less than 1200. I will edit your writing but will send you a copy before publication for you to approve.

I’d like to have at least 30 videos for this campaign…

These items will also be shared with any organization that is interested in joining the campaign.

If you have questions, leave a comment below or send me a note at walkingwithjane@gmail.com.