VideoDonor Leverages the Facebook Effect to Boost Organ Donation Rates

Facebook entered the transplantation world On May 1, 2012, to allow for members to specify organ donation status on their pages. The UK based website VideoDonor is the newest organ donation social media initiative to hit the road.

Bexley, Kent, United Kingdom, September 05, 2013 -- Now, well over a year on, we have our first real indication of how effective the Facebook effect nudge was. In a paper in the American Journal of Transplantation titled "Social Media and Organ Donor Registration: The Facebook Effect", researchers have found that on the first day of the new organ donor initiative, there were 13,054 online registrations to become a donor in the US. That's 21 times as many as there are in a normal day; in one state, Georgia, the increase was well over a hundred times the norm.

The success of leveraging social networks to increase awareness for organ donation appears to be catching on in the UK with the launch of a organ donation video sharing site VideoDonor. People have referred to the site as the YouTube Alternative for Organ Donation Videos. The site enables users to share their Organ Donation Stories online. Its owner hopes that this will help up the percentage of possible lives saved. The site incorporates the popular Facebook Comments plugin that allows users who have signed up to a organ donation register using Facebook to auto login to the site and upload video clips and comment on 1000s of uploaded organ donation videos.

Organ and blood donation are options that many people think about but few seem to act upon. The benefits are undeniable but still the problem rarely seems to be acknowledged until people need it or for the sake of someone close to them.It is also important to let friends and relatives know and naturally a social video sharing network like VideoDonor or Facebook are naturally good platforms for this. In all cases consent needs to be confirmed, Silicon Republic says that for each time someone commits, up to nine lives can be saved.

VideoDonor.com is a home for the inspiring stories of organ donors who want to share their life experiences and how their lives have changed after they have decided to donate their organ to other people in order to provide extension to the lives of others. It is a site that allows every user to share everything about their life, no matter how simple it may seem to others. VideoDonor.com is also a site which has a link with the official donor registry for those individuals who are inspired to become a donor and to be an instrument to prolong the lives of many people. With this site, people can also share and upload funny, inspirational, motivational, educational and music videos.

Let’s hope that VideoDonor sees similar successes as Facebook as it spreads globally.

Contact:
Dean Jones
VideoDonor
7 Torbrook Close
Bexley, Kent, DA5 1ES
07985279242
information@videodonor.com
http://videodonor.com/

VideoDonor.com is a home for the inspiring stories of organ donors who want to share their life experiences and how their lives have changed after they have decided to donate their organ to other people in order to provide extension to the lives of others.

Contact:
Dean Jones
VideoDonor
7 Torbrook Close
Bexley, Kent, DA5 1ES
07985279242
information@videodonor.com
http://videodonor.com/

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