Blog Action Day
Published by deviousdiva October 11th, 2007 in Environment.On October 15th, bloggers from around the world will take part in a Blog Action Day for the Environment. Almost 10,000 have signed up so far and that means a potential audience of over 7 million.
What would happen if every blog published posts on the same topic, on the same day? One issue. One day. Thousands of voices.
All you need to do to take part is decide to post something on the day that relates to the environment. It can be anything you like.
The best way to participate is to post on your blog something that relates to the environment. Your post can be about anything to do with the environment. So you could write a post which is offtopic for your blog OR relate the environment back to your topic in some way.
For example, if you had a blog about programming and technology, you could write about applications used for the environment, how to make your office more sustainable, how to stop wasting paper, why technology will save the environment, or just write about an environmental issue which has nothing to do with programming!
As another example, if you wrote about restaurants, you could write about kitchen practices that make for a more environmentally friendly workplace, food packaging, produce made from sustainable farming or any of a multitude of topics.
What works best is to keep writing as you normally would. Your audience reads your blog for a reason, you don’t need to suddenly change your voice, style or emphasis. Simply find an angle on your regular postings which relates to the environment.
Our aim is to get people thinking, discussing, questioning and talking about the environment, from every angle, niche, viewpoint and personality.
If you click on the image below, you will find the organisers blog which is full of resources and ideas for you to use. I pledge to donate this blogs earnings for the next week to one of the environmental charities shown here. My contribution is not much I know, but if we all did it, it would add up to a fair amount.
Don’t forget to register your blog if you decide to participate.
Thank you to Vassili at Surviving Athens for the pointer.
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I am currently running a month-long blogging campaign on environment-related matters at The Giving Hands (http://thegivinghands.org), which had begun on Sept 15th, and will conclude on Oct 15th in conjunction with Blog Action Day. And I’d like to invite you over to my blog to participate in the campaign. Perhaps you have some tips or experience you’d like to share?
Thank you Pelf for the invitation. At the moment, I have other pressing deadlines and won’t be able to contribute right now. However, I would be interested at some point future. For now I have added your link to the blog and I have subscribed so that I can follow your work. Thank you for taking the time to visit and well done on all your hard work in this campaign.
It’s OK, I understand that you might have other commitments, but please drop by and share your thoughts in the posts whenever you are free.
My arms are open!