"Write now is good.": Poverty: What would you write to help solve it?

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Poverty: What would you write to help solve it?

Big problems can be solved when many participate in a solution. Focusing concentrated energy on one central issue is Blog Action Day's goal for October 15th. This year's topic is poverty:

Blog Action Day is an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post about the same issue on the same day. Our aim is to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion...We ask bloggers to take a single day out of their schedule and focus it on an important issue. By doing so on the same day, the blogging community effectively changes the conversation on the web and focuses audiences around the globe on that issue.

If you choose to participate, you have 8 days to craft your most persuasive post, film a compelling video, or record a captivating podcast, to bring attention to poverty in your way, from your perspective, featuring your insight and innovation.

Would you like to be part of this global community? As I write this, 5,742 blogs — with an estimated readership of 9,038,385 people — have already registered to participate. If you do sign up, leave a comment here and I'll link to your blog on October 15th for Blog Action Day.

October 07, 2008 in Community, Inspiration, Social media, Web/Tech | Permalink

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I've signed up for Blog Action Day!

Posted by: Crafty Green Poet | October 12, 2008 at 12:17 PM

Hi Crafty — Great to hear it! I look forward to reading your post, and I'll link to it.

Posted by: KG | October 13, 2008 at 01:44 AM

Yes! I signed up last week. My action is a small action, but I believe if each one of us did at least one thing, poverty could be eradicated.

Posted by: Lily | October 14, 2008 at 02:53 PM

I'm glad you're supporting Blog Action Day. I am too. Another great way to help out in the fight against poverty is the One campaign http://one.org

Posted by: Nipun Mahajan | October 15, 2008 at 12:25 AM

Lily — Outstanding! I agree with you about each of us doing one thing, and that collective action being powerful.

Nipun Mahajan — Thank you for your comment! I'll check out the URL you listed.

Posted by: KG | October 16, 2008 at 12:22 AM

Thanks for spreading the word about the event. It got my creative juices going!

Posted by: Rachael Levy | October 16, 2008 at 12:57 PM

Rachel — You're welcome! I've linked to your post.

Posted by: KG | October 17, 2008 at 09:56 AM

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