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Do You Have A Blog? Sign Up for Blog Action Day 2008 (October 15th)

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.

This Year's Theme: Poverty

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.

One Issue, Thousands of Voices

Global issues like poverty are extremely complex. There is no simple,
clear answer. By asking thousands of different people to give their
viewpoints and opinions, Blog Action Day creates an extraordinary
lens through which to view these issues. Each blogger brings their
own perspective and ideas. Each blogger posts relating to their own
blog topic. And each blogger engages their audience differently.

What is the aim of Blog Action Day?

First and last, the purpose of Blog Action Day is to create a
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.

Out of this discussion naturally flow actions, advice, ideas, plans,
and empowerment. In 2007 on the theme of the Environment, we saw
bloggers running environmental experiments, detailing innovative
ideas on creating sustainable practices and focusing audience's
attentions on organizations and companies promoting green agendas. In
2008 we aim to again focus the blogging community's energies and
passions, this time on the mammoth issue of global poverty.

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. Anyone is free to join in on Blog Action Day and
there is no limit on the number of posts, the type of posts or the
direction of thoughts and opinions.

To sign up and participate visit the National Blog Action Day website
at http://blogactionday.org/

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This was posted on the Art4Development Yahoo! Groups listserv.