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Why Living is involved in Blog Action Day — and you should be too

We’ve just signed Living up as a con­trib­ut­ing blog for the second annual Blog Action Day which is hap­pen­ing on 15 Octo­ber. This year, blog­gers are being asked to con­sider the issue of world poverty. (Last year it was the environment).

Here’s how it works. Through the power of the online net­works that we’re all a part of – includ­ing those of us brought together by this very blog post – and with a focused blog­ging effort on 15 Octo­ber, people all over the world will bring atten­tion to the issue. Here’s the pro­mo­tional video to explain more:

At the time of writ­ing, there are 3,975 blogs registered to take part in this year’s event. I’m really excited that Living is going to be a part of it.

2007’s Blog Action Day was all about the envir­on­ment and gen­er­ated 23,327 blog posts on the issue – which were read by nearly 14.5 mil­lion people. And did this make a dif­fer­ence? Well, obvi­ously, actions speak louder than words. For me, on a per­sonal level, the best thing to come out of the event was a list of incred­ibly useful inform­a­tion about how I could make small changes in my own life to con­trib­ute to much bigger, global change.

For example on the Dumb Little Man blog, there was post about all the other things you can recycle, above and beyond the obvi­ous stuff that is picked up by the recyc­ling van once a fort­night. It’s the reason I signed up to Free­cycle.

On a global level, Blog Action Day in 2007 gen­er­ated a huge upsurge in the level of dis­cus­sion about the environment.

And it even got the atten­tion of offi­cials at the EU and UN – who used it as a way to gather views and opin­ions on sus­tain­ab­il­ity and envir­on­mental policy.

So if you are read­ing this – and you have a view on world poverty – why not join the con­ver­sa­tion? If you don’t have a blog already, why not set one up? It’s really simple – and there is plenty of help for begin­ners. Try this guide to set­ting up a blog for begin­ners from Patrick Schaber, for example.

Although if you’re feel­ing lazy, just come back to Living and find out more about Blog Action Day over the course of the next four weeks. And give us a shout if you have some­thing you’d like us to say on your behalf.

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Ori­gin­ally posted 2008-​​09-​​12 16:37:00. Repub­lished by Blog Post Promoter

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