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Currently registered to participate: 7,560 Sites with an audience in excess of 8,392,479 Readers

Check back here on October 15th to see live updates of posts, podcasts and videos going online for Blog Action Day.

Check back here on October 15th to see live updates of microfinance and fundraising efforts for Kiva and the Global Fund.

Post Topics

The best thing a blog can do is to keep their post on topic. Audiences visit our blogs because they enjoy the style, personality and topic of the site. So it makes sense that the best way to get through to these audiences is to use that same style, personality and topic to talk about Poverty. For example:

  • A Design Blog might analyse a set of charity posters and how they convey their message.
  • A Tech Blog might look at pro-poor technologies and projects.
  • A Political Blog might examine the relevant agendas of leading candidates.
  • A Sports Blog might look at recent charity activities of a major sports franchise.

What Can One Person Do?

Poverty is not only a pressing issue, it is a complex one. It's easy to think that there isn’t much an individual can do. Fortunately this isn’t the case at all. With activities ranging from advocacy and professional contribution to charity and financing, there is in fact many ways that we can act.

You can find a range of resources about poverty, about what the average person can do as well as dozens of post suggestions and ideas in our Resources section.

Microfinance with Kiva

Microloans are small loans, as little as $25, that help entrepreneurs in developing areas lift themselves out of poverty.

Support The Global Fund

There are many structural reasons for poverty. The Global Fund combats AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria which have a crippling effect on the fight against poverty. In 2008 we encourage bloggers to donate their day's earnings to The Global Fund - the official Blog Action Day charity.

Social Network via Change.org

Change.org is a social network dedicated to empowering and enabling people to connect, discuss, donate and make changes. If you're looking for like minded people, this is the place to go.

Blog Action Day is a nonprofit, grassroots movement of thousands of individual bloggers coming together for one cause.



Blogs Participating

Blog both large and small are participating, including: EU Minister Elena Valenciano, TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, LifeHacker, Mashable, Smashing, VentureBeat, ProBlogger, Inhabitat, ZenHabits, Stepcase LifeHack, MentalFloss, DailyBlogTips, TorrentFreak, SEOMoz, GetRichSlowly, WiseBread, LifeDev.net, GigaOm, DumbLittleMan and more...




Supporting Organisations

Blog Action Day is supported by organisations big and small including: The United Nations Millennium Campaign, Friendster, Deutsche Welle, My.Opera, International Blog Awards, Edublogs, Advanta Corp, BlogTV Inc and Blog.de.

No time to wait. We need your help right now! Blog Action Day 2008 is coming up in just six (or five, depending on your time zone) days. We want to make an unforgettable noise about the subject of poverty this year. So if you care at all about changing the world’s conversations or the world itself, please [...] 2 days ago
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): Leave a comment here and $1 goes to a food bank to feed the poor. Enter [...] 3 days ago
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 [...] 7 days ago
blogactionday: Everyone check out @inmyname - excellent new anti-poverty initiative. 37 minutes ago
blogactionday: Teachers, tell your students about Blog Action Day. Landlords, tell your renters. Game show hosts, tell your audiences. :) 43 minutes ago
blogactionday: Retweeting @annavhutchinson: Will open my site on Oct 15 w/ 12 bi-hourly posts for Blog Action Day! http://annavhutchinson.wordpress.com about 1 hour ago
blogactionday: http://tinyurl.com/bad08hunger Leave a comment and $1 goes to a food bank. Take 30 seconds and do it. about 5 hours ago
blogactionday: What can 1 person do? http://tinyurl.com/bad08person Also, anyone in the political blogosphere, please get all the poliblogs involved! :) about 7 hours ago
Blog Action Day brings blogs from around the world to discuss an issue of global importance. Last year over 20000 blogs participated by posting about the environment with the hope of sparking a larger discussion. This year Blog Action ... 5 minutes ago
Just wanted to pass this along. I’ll be participating with great enthusiasm. I encourage you to sign up and use your blog to help shed light on the critical issue of poverty. Just to get warmed up, here are a couple of organizations ... 10 minutes ago
I'm joining in with Blog Action Day on October 15 to help the fight against poverty. If you've got a blog maybe you'd like to get on board too??? 24 minutes ago

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