Blog Action Day 2008Blog 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. Global issues like poverty are extremely complex. There is no simple, clear answer. Our aim is to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion.

One Issue, Thousands of Voices

Video: Blog Action Day 2008 …the blogging community effectively changes the conversation on the web and focuses audiences around the globe on that 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. Out of this discussion will naturally flow actions, advice, ideas, plans, and empowerment.

Mass Participation

From the smallest online journals, to huge online magazines, to EU ministers, to professionals and amateurs, Blog Action Day is about mass participation! Who’s participating?

Elena Valenciano, TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, LifeHacker, Mashable, SmashingMagazine, VentureBeat, ProBlogger, Inhabitat, ZenHabits, StepcaseLifeHack, MentalFloss, DailyBlogTips, TorrentFreak, SEOMoz, GetRichSlowly, WiseBread, LifeDev.net, GigaOm, DumbLittleMan, RemarkableParents, SuccessfulBlog, DiscoveringDad, ChrisBrogan, Shift+OneMedia, DivinePurposeUnleashed, LifeInPerpetualBetaMovie, DeafMom, IBNMA, ChrisG, and more…

How You Can Participate

1. Register your blog. 2. Get Blog Action Day banner. 3. Respond to email confirmation. 4. Save email with html script code. 5. Insert script code into October 15th Blog Action Day post.

Blog Action Day 2008

In 2008, the Blog Action Day theme is Poverty. Bloggers are free to interpret this as they see fit. We invite bloggers to examine poverty from their own blog topics and perspectives, to look at it from the macro and micro, as a global condition and a local issue, and to bring their own ideas, views and opinions on the subject.

Other Resources:

Blog Action Day web site Live Stream of @BlogActionDay Tweets (Right Now!)

Live updates on October 15th from 12pm (EST) to 12am (EST):

Twitter: @BlogActionDay

Web: http://www.blogactionday.org Blog Talk Radio: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/blogactionday

Social Media for Non-profits Roundtable (moderated by Vicky Hennegan) live on Blog Talk Radio 5pm (EST) October 15th

Guest Panel: Paul Chaney, Liz Strauss, Mark J. Carter, and Beth Kanter

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15 Responses to “The Scoop On Blog Action Day 2008”

  1. Easton Ellsworth on October 9, 2008 10:39 pm

    Vicky, thank you so much for this post and for helping our team make Blog Action Day 2008 unforgattable.

    My goal is to wear myself out making a difference through my involvement, so that one person somewhere out there rises from poverty as a result. I am doing this for them.

  2. Marcus Goodyear on October 10, 2008 7:35 am

    This is totally awesome! I love Easton. What a guy.

    I wish I had known about this sooner, but we’ll still see if we can organize our community to do something big in the next few days.

  3. What Are You Doing for Blog Action Day? | The Blog Herald on October 10, 2008 9:09 am

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  4. Deb Ng on October 11, 2008 5:47 am

    Thanks so much for your participation and invaluable assistance and support with our massive BlogTalkRadio/Blog Action Day project. It promises to be a great event!

  5. Vicky H on October 11, 2008 6:13 am

    Thank you everyone for your wonderful comments.

    @easton You are amazing my friend! A quick heads up, I will soon be looking to interview you for “My Friends Rock” series. It is really amazing using social media when you have friends all over the U.S. and around the world. It has made me so much more aware of issues and how they really effect peoples lives. How they effect real people, my friends and acquaintances.

    I have seen the tweets from those on 9/11 who talked about loosing their loved one and remembering them on that day, about those who were in the trenches of the Guston hurricane and where they went when they fled the area, the long lines they waited in to buy gas, the financial toll this disaster took on real families, and the issues of dealing with the aftermath when they did come home.

    Social media has helped me become closer to major events occuring around the world. It helps me when I’m down to feel blessed for the things I have. It helps me ‘keep it real’.

    @Marcus Many people will be participating in Blog Action Day the day of, on Oct 15th. We have 5 days to go… help us spread the word!

    @Debng I love that Blog Action Day is doing a live 12 hour Blog Talk Radio piece on Oct 15 from 12pm (EST) to 12am (EST). This will allow so many people to share their personal stories and I really believe it will motivate people well past Oct 15th. Thanks Blog Talk Radio and Debng for supporting and sponsoring the 12 hour radio piece!

  6. Easton Ellsworth on October 11, 2008 6:24 pm

    Thank you so much Vicky! I love those thoughts.

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