Today is "Blog Action Day" Focusing on Poverty
Dian Schaffhauser is a writer who covers technology and business. She has announced that today is the second annual Blog Action Day. The information below is taken from her announcement.
Blog Action Day brings together 8,000-plus blog, podcast, and videocast sites to post about the same issue on the same day. This year's topic is poverty. The purpose of the effort is, according to organizers, "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."
Certainly many RT clients deal with poverty everyday. This Blog Action Day should serve as a good reminder to us that this is the case and that we need to do what we can to remove poverty and to be supportive of persons who are living in poverty.
For additional information go to Dian Schaffhauser, "'Blog Action Day' Calls for Discussion of Poverty," Campus Technology, 10/15/2008, http://www.campustechnology.com/article.aspx?aid=68516
Dian schaffhauer invites anyone with higher education technology news to send it to her at dian@dischaffhauser
Blog Action Day brings together 8,000-plus blog, podcast, and videocast sites to post about the same issue on the same day. This year's topic is poverty. The purpose of the effort is, according to organizers, "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."
Certainly many RT clients deal with poverty everyday. This Blog Action Day should serve as a good reminder to us that this is the case and that we need to do what we can to remove poverty and to be supportive of persons who are living in poverty.
For additional information go to Dian Schaffhauser, "'Blog Action Day' Calls for Discussion of Poverty," Campus Technology, 10/15/2008, http://www.campustechnology.com/article.aspx?aid=68516
Dian schaffhauer invites anyone with higher education technology news to send it to her at dian@dischaffhauser
posted by Hoosier RT | 6:20 AM
1 Comments:
for my part, i turn to sites like freerice, kiva, and goodsearch, as ways to help alleviate poverty online.
saw this post via the front page of blog action day. it's great that you're participating. :)
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