After all our brainstorming, we decided to do our own research on how to target the web sites that we had in mind.

Friends Reunited, owns two other websites called Genes Reunited and Friends Reunited Dating. It is a good idea to contact them since they would advertise the cancer in all of their web sites. They also send newsletters and tweet, a very good way to "promote" and get the message around.

Linked In has a forum on Sarcoma, although it is closed to the public. It would be helpful and easier for people to read and chat on the forum if it was open to the public, so creating a new forum would be a great idea!

Facebook. There are lots of private groups about soft tissue sarcomas aswell as a non-profit group made by the charity Sarcoma UK. This last group only has 302 members which means that not many people know about it, and there are no posts on it since May 2011, so people forget about it. We need to make a group/page ASAP!!

Sarcoma UK has a twitter account with only 518 followers which is not enough, this means that people are not conscious about this cancer. What can we do about this??

In Boots you can subscribe to their newsletter, so it would be a good idea to try and get some info about Sarcomas on their. WebMD is a symptom checker and the partner to Boots; I tried putting in the symptoms for Sarcoma and nothing appeared. Also, when you go on WebMD's website and click on cancers, this cancer doesn't come up, making people less conscious about the existence of it.

** Also doing more research on Soft Tissue Sarcoma it appears that 6/10 people that have this cancer have HIV aswell - becoming AIDS when you have Sarcomas. What can we do about this? Maybe something on "How to stay healthy with HIV"?

Brainstorming Ideas

During our first meeting with the squad we brainstormed different ideas on how to make people more conscious about Sarcomas, and what websites do our target audience go on. Here is a list of places we have in mind targeting:
Friends Reunited
Dating sites
Online forums (adult health, professional, sports,)
Youtube
Symptom checkers (Boots)
Sarcoma UK
Ancestory.com
Making a group on Facebook
Linked in
Finding out about people's homepages to post something on them