A better reason to blog…
The web is filled with hundreds, thousands, most probably millions of blogs, all containing unique and diverse subject matter and all there to serve a niche audience. There is no doubt that blogging has and is changing the way we entertain ourselves and search for information. In fact a good blog can really establish a professionals credentials.
Just then I was on a site which led me to think, there must be a better reason to blog and for one day each year, that site is dedicated to raising awareness about a specific issue which either directly or indirectly affects us all. I would like any bloggers visiting my site to check out http://blogactionday.org - a truly unique concept which mobilises a lot of content owners to share and discuss their thoughts, ideas and solutions to problems.
Last year focused on the environment, this year the theme is all about poverty, what causes it, problems related to it, and of course ways to end it. I am going to get behind the campaign and add my thoughts as to what is causing poverty, both locally and globally and encourage others to do the same. The web is perhaps the only real medium which can mobilise and unite millions of people into thinking and acting. We are exposed to so many messages online, that unifying one message could truly have such an impact to illicit change.
Check back on 15 October 2008 when I add my post, and if you are a blogger consider getting behind such a great scheme! Whatever our reasons to blog, surely uniting millions of publishers and their audience will have a far greater effect than that of individual greed?
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