Montreal Girl Geek Dinners Participate in Blog Action Day - How about YOU?

One Issue, Thousands of Voices
Blog Action Day, in its second year now; is an annual nonprofit online event that aims to unite the world’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post about the same issue, and this is the interesting part; on the same day. Their aim is to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion.

In 2007, the theme was the Environment and by their accounts, it surpassed all expectations.

• 20,603 Blog Participated
• 23,327 Blog Posts
• 14,631,038 RSS Readers

The huge numbers of bloggers who participated attracted so much attention that it received international press coverage.

A few blogs who participated in 2007:
Boing Boing, LifeHacker, Mashable, Treehugger, Official Google Blog, Read/Write/Web, GigaOm, DoshDosh, CopyBlogger, The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) and Valleywag.

This year, on October 15, 2008, the theme is Poverty and as Montreal Girl Geeks we have a tremendous opportunity to examine poverty from our own perspectives in our own city. What can you contribute? Blog about it or post a video on your site or use your favorite video conversation site. If you don’t have a blog or you are camera shy, why not donate some time or some money to SunYouth. Even better - Go have supper or even volunteer at Robin Des Bois. Get creative!

Here are some ideas from the Blog Action Day site:

• A Design Blog might analyze a set of charity posters and how they convey their message
• A Tech Blog might look at pro-poor technologies and projects like 1 Laptop Per Child
• 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
• A Business Blog might discuss how businesses can utilize ethical practices to boost their bottom line
• A Celebrity Blog might write up a who’s who of celebrity causes and how their participation impacts those causes
• A Movie Blog might create a list of the best documentaries relating to issues on poverty
• A Personal Blog might document a personal activity of the blogger that is helping the disadvantaged

Some statistics (as of September 27 @ 11 am):
4,698 have registered and committed their blogs
which represents an audience in excess of 9,538,432 readers!

I think the Montreal Girl Geek Dinners can further boost those numbers!

So, go to www.blogactionday.org and commit your blog. The site also provides many resources to help you get you inspired. They've also provided a number of badges which can easily be added to your blog or site. We've proudly put up ours as you can see!

For our part, GGDs is asking that you;

1. Register your blog at www.blogactionday.org;
   
2. Promote that you are participating by adding one of the Blog Action Day badges;
3. Let us know what you plan to do by commenting on this post so that we can all follow.
   

We'll create a Blog Roll especially for the event.

Remember: Blog Action Day is about changing the conversation for one day to an issue of global importance.

Blog Action Day 2008 Poverty from Blog Action Day on Vimeo.