Today is a special day on our calendars here at Envato because on August 15th we launch the annual Blog Action Day campaign! As you may recall from 2007's super successful campaign, the premise behind Blog Action Day is to get the world's bloggers to unite to post on one important issue on the same day.
Last year was a huge success with some 20,000 bloggers participating to discuss the environment, the UN got involved, as did the EU Minister for the environment and suddenly we were in the papers and the news.
This year we're tackling a huge issue in Global Poverty, but one that's perhaps even more important. It's a topic that most people don't really feel they can do much about. I hope that through Blog Action Day 08 we might raise awareness on the big and small things that everyone can do to work towards hitting the millenium goals of eradicating poverty for good.
If you're a blogger, podcaster, or videocaster, we'd love it if you're join in this effort! We launched the site a few hours ago, and so far dozens of sites have been teeming in, as well as more than a few top 100 blogs (including my favourite blog TechCrunch!) which is very exciting and even a minister from the Spanish Parliament who blogs is participating.
Visit BlogActionDay.org to register and get involved!
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( ADD YOURS )pavs August 15th
Collis. This is great, even though my readers are of tech nature I will donate one day of blog content just for blogactionday. I will also donate my earning for that day, just like I did last year.
I am sucker for stats. It would be interesting to know how much hits are you getting per day, maybe a public tracker like sitemeter?
Cheers.
pavs
JoshB August 15th
I know a few people at the local paper, reaches about 5,000 people every week, after a brief phone call the editor said he would try and get a good spot for a blog action day article
Alex August 15th
Great idea, and the site looks awesome!
Jeff D August 15th
To fight and erradicate poverty it is not enough to just give to the poor. To quote Stephen Covey, “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” Poverty is as much mental as it is physical.
Max August 15th
Great video, only thing is the date in the video is october 15th instead of august 15th :p
Craigsnedeker August 15th
Cool, but I have no idea what Global Poverty is xD
Sean Hodge August 15th
@Craigsnedeke - Wikipedia is often a good place to look when your unsure about a term: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_poverty
Poverty is not having basic’s like food, shelter, and clean water. It’s not having enough money or resources for the needs of life. Those are some manifestations of the impact of poverty, but you can look at many other factors of poverty, like lack of security, access to education, contributing factors, and more. Read up on it at Wikipedia to get started.
@Collis - I’m excited to see the site up and the launch. Kiva http://www.kiva.org/ is an organization I had read about before. I’m going to donate something to them as part of this and it’s great that they are being promoted through Blog Action Day. They have an interesting charity because they loan people money in developing countries, which helps people lift themselves out of difficult situations, start a business, and support themselves long-term. Great program!
@Jeff D - Good points and that’s part of why I like the concept behind the Kiva program. There are many creative programs to help alleviate poverty that do make an impact and are worth getting involved in.
Joefrey Mahusay August 16th
Yay! blogactionday site is looking great! By the way on what country the donation will be donated?
Mark Abucayon August 16th
Wow the website is awesome.
Craigsnedeker August 16th
Thanks sean!
w1sh August 16th
Philanthropy ftw… -_-
GJ Collis and Co.
Makes me realize how much I suck. ^_^
Zach LeBar August 16th
All I have to say is fantastic job on that video. It makes me want to blog. Maybe by October 15th my site will be up and ready. I’d like to make it my first post.
Braden Keith August 16th
Why was the rainbow lines in parking lot tutorial removed?
george August 16th
Why was the rainbow lines in parking lot tutorial removed?
?????????????
Braden Keith August 17th
real original george.
george August 17th
what?
no i wanna know why they deleted that very good tut…
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Braden Keith August 17th
Hahah I was kidding, you just copied and pasted my comment. lol
george August 17th
so what?
omg your soo lame and stupid dude
how old are you? i bet ur below 10 my friend, shit
sorry psdtuts, stupid shits like that makes me mad, the point is we wanna know why that good tutorial got deleted!
Braden Keith August 18th
Oh dude, chillax. I was just kidding. That was totally unnecessary man.
The Floating Frog August 27th
Nice article, I’ll put this date in my diary
cheritycall October 27th
hy, Do something to help those hungry people from Africa and India,
I made this blog about this subject:
on http://tinyurl.com/5hu74e
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