Nick Glasgow

I admit it. My social media skills are severely lacking. Unlike most others here at CTP, I don’t have a Facebook page. Or a MySpace page. I’ve never even Tweeted. I shake my head when I look over my wife’s shoulder at her Facebook page and see that one of her friends “has nothing to do today.” Who writes this stuff? Who reads it?

But yesterday, I learned of a moving example of how social media can be used in a powerful, positive way. A way that just might save someone’s life.

A 28-year-old employee of EMC who works in California, Nick Glasgow, was diagnosed with Leukemia in March. He’s been through three rounds of chemotherapy but has yet to go into remission. His best, and perhaps only hope, is to find a bone marrow donor. But because he is part Asian and part Caucasian, the odds of finding a donor are long.  At one point Nick’s doctors told him there was a “zero chance” a donor would be found. But Nick’s long odds may have changed, at least a bit. (more…)