Blog Action Day Launches! It's been almost a year since, with your help, we held the smashingly successful Blog Action Day 2007, and as of a few hours ago, our 2008 campaign has officially begun. This year our theme is "Poverty" and we'll be encouraging bloggers around the world to once again explore this issue on your blogs on October 15th. Click here to visit the 2008 Site The 2008 campaign is already off to a big start with no less than 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 Additionally 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 Network on Change. ... And the campaign is only a few hours old! So without further ado, head over to BlogActionDay.org, register your blogs, watch the new video, and explore the new site because we have an amazing year ahead of us! |