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 )Mike Smith - Bootstrapping Blog August 15th
I registered my blog and put a 125 banner up. I am excited about the topic this year.
Craigsnedeker August 15th
First comment =D
Pretty neat. But what is Global Poverty?
Skellie August 16th
@ Mike: I’ve got to get me one of those banners too :).
jdcllns August 16th
Before anyone blogs one sentence about Global Poverty, they should be required to read this book:
The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good by William Easterly.
Easterly, an NYU economics professor and a former research economist at the World Bank, brazenly contends that the West has failed, and continues to fail, to enact its ill-formed, utopian aid plans because, like the colonialists of old, it assumes it knows what is best for everyone. Existing aid strategies, Easterly argues, provide neither accountability nor feedback. Without accountability for failures, he says, broken economic systems are never fixed. And without feedback from the poor who need the aid, no one in charge really understands exactly what trouble spots need fixing. True victories against poverty, he demonstrates, are most often achieved through indigenous, ground-level planning.
Craigsnedeker August 16th
Nevermind about my question it was answered
Joel Falconer August 16th
jdcllns, take a look at the video on the Blog Action Day homepage. It’s about looking for better solutions.
Skellie August 16th
@ Joel: the same video is embedded in this post
Joel Falconer August 16th
Skellie: I’m descended from goldfish. All it takes is one comment consisting of an actual paragraph and I f… hey, where am I?
Skellie August 16th
@ Joel: Nah, I think it was a clever ploy to get more people to visit the Blog Action Day homepage and register
ooopinionsss December 3rd
How you think when the economic crisis will end? I wish to make statistics of independent opinions!
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