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Tons of Blog Action Day Links to Get You Excited
13 Comments | October 9th, 2008 by Easton Ellsworth

Thank you for supporting Blog Action Day 2008. We’re excited to share a TON of great links with you from our growing community. If you have anything to share, please leave a comment below!

In no particular order (because they’re all excellent):

Other Fun Stuff

Here’s Jake Press and Jim Stroud shooting the breeze Blog Action Day-style:


iLiveOnline #5 from Jim Stroud on Vimeo.

Doug Cloud created this banner for you to use if you like:

That’s it for now, but stay tuned! We’ve got lots more to come.

43 More Organizations Join Blog Action Day 2008
9 Comments | October 5th, 2008 by Easton Ellsworth

A week ago we announced that 28 companies and organizations had decided to throw their weight in support of Blog Action Day 2008.

Each supporting group is adding its voice to our worldwide event on to October 15, when thousands of blogs will address the subject of poverty in front of millions of readers.

Some organizations have committed to give money to poverty relief organizations in connection with Blog Action Day. Others have allowed us to use their resources to spread the word and make this event truly unforgettable.

We thank you, all of you, for making Blog Action Day 2008 a startling power for change in the world.

And now we are thrilled to announce 43 more official supporting organizations, which puts the official tally at 78 … for now. :)

The 43 latest organizations to join Blog Action Day ‘08 (in alphabetical order):

Much More to Come

Guess what? We’re not done yet - not by a long shot. We’ve got more companies and organizations coming to us every day, looking for ways to support our event. As they join, we’ll share the news here.

Thank you so much to every single man, woman and child who is behind Blog Action Day 2008.

Contact us to join your company or organization to Blog Action Day 2008.

Blog Action Day News and Notes for September 26, 2008
8 Comments | September 27th, 2008 by Easton Ellsworth

Thanks to all the creative people out there who are already spreading the word about Blog Action Day 2008 - Poverty. (Go register now if you haven’t already, and get your sister to register her blog too!)

Here’s what’s happening right now in regard to Blog Action Day 2008:

1. Mixx Our Video - We’ve gotten 31 votes in Mizz so far. Will you bump us up a bit please?

2. Mashable (one of the biggest blogs on earth) just mentioned us in an article talking about our partner, Social Actions. (Thanks for making the poverty widget, guys!)

3. Doug Cloud is sharing his soul, his wallet and also his Web design expertise in honor of Blog Action Day.

4. Sister Julie at A Nun’s Life will hold a book discussion on October 15 (Blog Action Day) using Jon Sobrino’s No Salvation Outside the Poor as a conversation starter. Brilliant idea Sister Julie!

5. Learn About Poverty is a special blog created just for Blog Action Day 2008 by the excellent people at World Vision.

6. Styletime is holding a contest in connection with our event.

7. Yanko Design (a Technorati top 100 blog) is also holding a competition for Blog Action Day.

Got any good links or news to share? Leave a comment below and let us know! Let’s make this Blog Action Day a truly unforgettable event.

aGoodCause.com to Support Blog Action Day 2008
No Comments | September 26th, 2008 by Easton Ellsworth

We’re excited to announce that the good folks at aGoodCause are officially supporting Blog Action Day 2008!

aGoodCause allows you to help fight poverty just by shopping. It has just launched globally, in eight countries.

Some information about aGoodCause:

aGoodCause.com is a global partnership between 700 of the world’s most important NGOs - charities like Save the Children, Red Cross, Amnesty International, UNHCR and many others. Together we want to make the world better, when it comes to animal welfare, human rights, fighting poverty, making the climate better etc. And we do this by enabling online shoppers all over the world to support their favourite charity, when they shop online. In more than 5000 online stores in fact! What makes us unique, too, is that users just have to download a small piece of software - afterwards, everything works automatically, and your computer is turned into a charitable tool.

Go check out aGoodCause right now.

And feel free to blog about it! :)

Thanks so much to aGoodCause for being a part of Blog Action Day 2008!

What Would You Do With $10,000? KivaB4B Wants to Know
15 Comments | September 24th, 2008 by Easton Ellsworth

We have an exciting announcement plus a big, big question for all of you!

The KivaB4B Project, a unique partnership between Advanta Bank and Kiva.org, has committed $10,000.00 USD to Blog Action Day 2008 to help us encourage more conversation about and solutions for alleviating poverty.

The KivaB4B Project encourages small business owners, entrepreneurs and independent professionals (like bloggers!) to use their business to do good.

Advanta matches grants made by Kiva cardholders (up to $200/month) and recognizes blogs and other websites that market the Kiva card by making a donation to Kiva in their name (learn about the affiliate program).

We are excited to have these funds in support of Blog Action Day 2008 and look forward to working together with Advanta and KivaB4B to distribute the funds appropriately.

So now our big, big question for you, our 4,500-plus registered participants and thousands of blog and social media followers:

What should we do with the $10,000? :)

Please share your ideas below or email us at central@blogactionday.org.

Thank you to Advanta and KivaB4B for supporting Blog Action Day 2008!

28 More Organizations Join Blog Action Day 2008
7 Comments | September 24th, 2008 by Easton Ellsworth

Blog Action Day 2008 is thrilled to announce 28 new supporting organizations as we approach our worldwide event discussing poverty on October 15.

In alphabetical order:

  1. Advanta Bank
  2. aGoodCause.com
  3. Beliefnet
  4. BlitzTime
  5. BlogBurst
  6. BlogTalkRadio
  7. Buttons of Hope
  8. Collective Lens
  9. Edublogs
  10. Experience Project
  11. Friendster
  12. Inhabitat
  13. Kid$ Ca$h Connection
  14. Kiva
  15. KivaB4B
  16. MinistryLIVE.org
  17. PNN
  18. PSDTUTS
  19. See3 Communications
  20. Squish Designs
  21. Social Actions
  22. Telstra
  23. The Point
  24. United Nations Millennium Campaign
  25. WeEarth
  26. World Concern
  27. World Vision Australia
  28. Yanko Design

Whew! Which one is your favorite? :)

Thank you to all who have helped us forge connections with these organizations.

Contact us to join your company or organization to Blog Action Day 2008!

How to Follow Blog Action Day 2008 on Social Websites
8 Comments | September 13th, 2008 by Easton Ellsworth

On October 15, 2008, thousands of bloggers will talk about poverty and try to change the global conversation for one day.

As that magical day approaches, we urge you to follow/befriend/join Blog Action Day 2008 on the following social media, social networking and social activist websites (in alphabetical order):

BlitzTime - We have a special conference call coming up on Thursday, Sept. 18 at 10 PM GMT (6 PM US Eastern). Come join us and meet other people who are interested in Blog Action Day one-on-one!

BlogCatalog - Our special BlogCatalog group.

BlogTalkRadio - We’re doing a huge 12-hour radio show on Blog Action Day itself!

Change.org - 61 followers ain’t bad … we’d really love to increase our donation tally ($370 raised so far to fight poverty).

Facebook - 118 fans - won’t you become one too? :)

Flickr - Our awesome Flickr photo sharing group. See our photostream. And see all photos tagged blogactionday.

FriendFeed - Stalking us just got a lot easier.

Friendster - Join our Friendster fan club!

Kiva.org - Kiva is one of our two officially supported poverty relief organizations this year (the other is The Global Fund). Join our lending team and change the lives of poor people all over the world. They work to pay back the money, too. It’s awesome to watch.

Last.fm - We’re always looking for great music related to poverty.

LinkedIn - We have a dedicated LinkedIn group.

MySpace - We’ve got a special page set up for Blog Action Day. Friend us and join the Blog Action Day MySpace crowd!

NetVibes - Another fine portal for our event.

Ning - We have a mini-social network!

PBWiki - We’ve got a wiki set up that right now is mainly being used to host a lot of multilingual translations of various pages and images from our website. Click here to request access to become a wiki editor!

Stand Against Poverty - Our official United Nations page. You’ve gotta do this. It’s October 17-19,

The Point - We have a brand new campaign set up here and will try to convince a major US retailer to donate a percentage of their profits on October 15 to The Global Fund.

Twitter - We’re chugging along with 556 followers at the moment. Please follow us and Tweet back and forth with us to make Blog Action Day even more fun!

Vimeo - Here’s where our official 2008 launch video is being hosted.

WeEarth - Welcome to our village.

YouTube - We have a profile page. Needs to be updated, but it’s there and you can see our 2007 campaign videos for now.

If we can change the subject across the world on October 15, imagine the difference it could make to even just one person in poverty’s shadow.

We’d appreciate any and all suggestions you may have on how we can use all of the above sites to make Blog Action Day as viral and powerful as possible.

We’ll try to update this post over time so you can see what we’re doing on various social media websites to make this event as huge and impactful as possible.

If you know of (or maybe own) another website that Blog Action Day could be on, please let us know!

17 Languages and More Coming!
1 Comment | August 25th, 2008 by Easton Ellsworth

A huge THANK YOU to all you wonderful volunteer translators out there. We now have international landing pages for this website available in 17 languages (including English):

  1. Arabic
  2. Bahasa Indonesia
  3. Bulgarian
  4. Catalan
  5. Chinese (Simplified)
  6. Dutch
  7. English
  8. Greek
  9. Hindi
  10. Italian
  11. Japanese
  12. Polish
  13. Portuguese (Brazilian)
  14. Russian
  15. Serbo-Croatian
  16. Spanish
  17. Turkish

And more to come.

Visit our Site Translations page for more information on how to help translate BlogActionDay.org into different languages.

We also have an unofficial wiki where you can help us translate banners, logos, emails, extra information on our website, etc.

The more people we touch in their native tongue, the better.

May the subject of poverty never be talked about the same after Blog Action Day 2008.

By the way, have you registered yet? :)

Blog Action Day Launches
5 Comments | August 15th, 2008 by Cyan

This morning, August 15 2008, Blog Action Day has launched. In the next two months we hope to encourage thousands of bloggers, podcasters and videocasters to learn about poverty, and on October 15, take action. This might be through posting on the theme of poverty and educating your readers about the issues and actions they might take, it might be donating your day’s earnings – there are many ways you can get involved.

So what’s happened so far? Well in the last 48 hours the blogosphere has proven itself to be a verdant space for grassroots action. Here’s what’s happened so far:

15 of the world’s 100 most popular blogs according to Technorati.com have agreed to participate in Blog Action Day this year, including:
TechCrunch.com
ReadWriteWeb.com
Mashable.com
SmashingMagazine.com
GigaOm.com
Jauhari.net
Problogger.net
CopyBlogger.com
DailyBlogTips.com
ZenHabits.net
Inhabitat.com
VentureBeat.com
Mentalfloss.com
PronetAdvertising.com
TorrentFreak.com

Elena Valenciano, a prominent member of the Spanish Parliament and spokesperson for the Human Rights Committee will be taking part in Blog Action Day.

Ben Rattray, CEO of Change.org is supporting the event, and you can now get involved in the Blog Action Day social network.

…And this is before Blog Action Day 2008 officially launched! We’re so excited about this year and thank everyone for their support so far.

If you haven’t already, join us by committing your blog to participate in this year’s Blog Action Day!