Act. Cause. Hope. Change. Blog.

Let’s blog for a cause, a cause impactful enough that thousands others on earth would gather to help. By facilitating these acts of collaboration, online communities and social media networks could now raise public awareness of a certain subject in hand. The world follows from there.

Here’s a list of several purposeful and charitable things you can do with your blog or website.

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Blog Action Day 2007 for Environment

On October 15th - Blog Action Day, bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind. In its inaugural year, Blog Action Day will be co-coordinating bloggers to tackle the issue of the environment. Bloggers can participate on Blog Action Day in one of two ways:

1. Publish a post on their blog which relates to an issue of their own choice pertaining to the environment. For example: A blog about money might write about how to save around the home by using environmentally friendly ideas. Similarly a blog about politics might examine what weight environmental policy holds in the political arena. Posts do not need to have any specific agenda, they simply need to relate to the larger issue in whatever way suits the blogger and readership. Our aim is not to promote one particular viewpoint, only to push the issue to the table for discussion; 2. Commit to donating their day’s advertising earnings to an environmental charity of their choice. There is a list of “official” Blog Action Day charities on the site, however bloggers are also free to choose an alternate environmental charity to donate to if they wish.

And that’s it. If they choose bloggers can also promote the initiative itself. However they are also free to simply post on topic on the right day or discreetly donate to a charity without publicizing Blog Action Day.

Read more in Bahasa Indonesia

Bloggers Unite Against Abuse

On September 27th, join thousands of bloggers around the world in BlogCatalog’s Blogging for a Great Cause Challenge.

This month’s blogging challenge is Bloggers Against Abuse. The outcome we are after is to be part of the largest group of bloggers to ever blog about an important cause, all on the same day. So how do you participate?

1. Blog about putting an end to some sort of Abuse (you decide what kind of abuse to blog about); 2. Spread the word among all the bloggers you know; 3. If you are a graphic designer, perhaps you can come up with some small badges announcing the event, that we can then place on our blogs; 4. Let other members know of any organizations who are involved in putting an end to abuse.

irrepressible.info: an Amnesty International Campaign

The web is a great tool for sharing ideas and freedom of expression. However, efforts to try and control the Internet are growing. Internet repression is reported in countries like China, Vietnam, Tunisia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Syria. People are persecuted and imprisoned simply for criticising their government, calling for democracy and greater press freedom, or exposing human rights abuses, online.

But Internet repression is not just about governments. IT companies have helped build the systems that enable surveillance and censorship to take place. Yahoo! have supplied email users’ private data to the Chinese authorities, helping to facilitate cases of wrongful imprisonment. Microsoft and Google have both complied with government demands to actively censor Chinese users of their services.

Freedom of expression is a fundamental human right. It is one of the most precious of all rights. We should fight to protect it.

Add irrepressible content to your site. If you have a website or blog, help us spread the word and undermine unwarranted censorship by publishing censored material from our database directly onto your site. The more people take part the more we show that freedom of expression cannot be repressed.

Simply follow these 3 easy steps

• Choose a format for the badge to use on your site. You can preview the different formats (will open in a pop up window)
• Copy the html snippet you can see on the right and add it to your site where you want the badge to appear. Make sure to copy the entire code or the badge will not work properly.
• Reload your site. New content from our database will appear each time a page is loaded.

Pink for October

Web sites will Go Pink during the month of October to bring attention to Breast Cancer Awareness Month, get people talking about breast cancer, and raise money for research.

But to be clear, raising money isn’t the primary purpose of this web event.

The hope is that you turn your site pink (in whatever way works for your site), go out to that World Wide Web thing and educate yourself about the multiple issues related to Breast Cancer, then take that newfound knowledge and tell someone else what you’ve learned.

We hope that you will:

• Turn your web site/blog pink (however you like, it’s up to you).
• Educate yourself about the multiple issues related to breast cancer.
• Take that newfound knowledge and teach someone else what you know.

2006 was a great start with the roughly 1500 sites that Went Pink. We are looking to make an even bigger splash this year. Check out the 2007 inaugural post to see how you can become involved, help increase awareness, learn some, and teach others what you know.

Details are summarized from each consecutive site. Good luck!

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