Blogging for the environment
Blog Action Day
Tomorrow, Monday 15 October, is Blog Action Day. As of the last time I refreshed the Blog Action Day homepage, almost 14,000 bloggers have committed to making a blog post about this year’s theme: the environment. That’s a lot of people blogging, and even more people reading, about a very important issue.
How to participate
Bloggers are being encouraged to come up with a way to incorporate the environmental theme into their usual entries. The website gives an example of how someone with a blog about computer technology could write an entry about how technology could save the environment… or about how to stop wasting paper. Check out the Get Involved page for more information about the project and how to add your blog to the list of participants.
I’ve only recently found out about Blog Action Day and I’m not sure that my post ideas are going to come together in time tomorrow’s deadline. However, I’ve got ‘the environment, writers and the web’ down in my notebook as an idea for a future entry.
Meanwhile, I’m spreading the message, and I’d encourage other bloggers to do the same. There’s a set of badges you can use for your blog on the Blog Action Day website here.
Your thoughts
Can blogging be a tool for promoting social change? Should it be?
I’m so there! And yes, a blog can be a tool / soap box for putting your views out there. Whether or not they change anything is the question. And to answer the “should it be?” question, I say… Why not?
I think blogging is a great tool for promoting anything. Especially when mass quantities of people join in on the same subject.