Blog Action Day 08

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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...

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, B5Media, Edublogs, StatCounter, BlogTalkRadio, Blog.de and Envato.