World MDG Blogging Day
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Mike Kinman
Aug 19, 2008, 6:25:51 PM8/19/08
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Hi everyone,
got a new Sept. 25 venture to announce. This is one we are launching but are intentionally not branding as EGR because we're hoping to attract many partners and have it take on a life of its own.
We're calling it World MDG Blogging Day.
On Sept. 25, we're asking bloggers around the world to post about making poverty history. It can be information about the MDGs, a story of extreme poverty from your own life or travels, a poem, a podcast, a video clip, a piece of art, a prayer, an open letter to your leaders ... whatever your way of raising your voice for those in extreme poverty is.
We've set up a blogring and made it easy to join. We've also set up a Facebook event page (http://tinyurl.com/mdgblog) and soon will have a website -- www.mdgbloggingday.org. (I just started the Facebook event within the hour and already we have six people signed up, so that's pretty good!)
All people need to do to sign up is:
1) click on this link -- http://www.ringsurf.com/netring?action=addform&ring=nr1529 and follow the instructions to add their blog to the list.
2) choose a badge from that site and put it on their blog so that others know they are participating and can join, too.
3) Invite every blogger they know to join!
Our hope is that this will spread virally ... but for that we need as many partners as possible. Since EGR is U.S.-based, we especially would love partners who can enlist bloggers from outside the U.S. in this movement. I'm on the Micah Challenge advisory network, so I've just sent an email to all our partners in Micah asking them if they would partner in this. I'm also going to contact folks at Bread, the ONE Campaign, and other organizations.
In addition to recruiting bloggers that you know, I'd love it if you could forward this to any other networks you know across all boundaries.
We also would love as much creative help as possible in advertising this, designing logos, etc. I've put some very basic badge designs up on the blogring but I'd love better options from more creative people.
Again, I have intentionally not branded this as an EGR initiative in hopes that many more will jump on and it will take on a life of its own.
Oh ... and kudos to Sabina Alkire who planted the seed for this idea!
Christ's peace,
Mike+
... BTW, we're up to 633 people signed up for the Day of Prayer, Fasting and Advocacy ... and the number of "awaiting reply" listings is staying constant at 1500-1600, which means people are continuing to invite their friends. I'm hopeful we'll hit 1,000 by Friday! Keep spreading the word (and you can also go to www.sept25.org to sign up!)
got a new Sept. 25 venture to announce. This is one we are launching but are intentionally not branding as EGR because we're hoping to attract many partners and have it take on a life of its own.
We're calling it World MDG Blogging Day.
On Sept. 25, we're asking bloggers around the world to post about making poverty history. It can be information about the MDGs, a story of extreme poverty from your own life or travels, a poem, a podcast, a video clip, a piece of art, a prayer, an open letter to your leaders ... whatever your way of raising your voice for those in extreme poverty is.
We've set up a blogring and made it easy to join. We've also set up a Facebook event page (http://tinyurl.com/mdgblog) and soon will have a website -- www.mdgbloggingday.org. (I just started the Facebook event within the hour and already we have six people signed up, so that's pretty good!)
All people need to do to sign up is:
1) click on this link -- http://www.ringsurf.com/netring?action=addform&ring=nr1529 and follow the instructions to add their blog to the list.
2) choose a badge from that site and put it on their blog so that others know they are participating and can join, too.
3) Invite every blogger they know to join!
Our hope is that this will spread virally ... but for that we need as many partners as possible. Since EGR is U.S.-based, we especially would love partners who can enlist bloggers from outside the U.S. in this movement. I'm on the Micah Challenge advisory network, so I've just sent an email to all our partners in Micah asking them if they would partner in this. I'm also going to contact folks at Bread, the ONE Campaign, and other organizations.
In addition to recruiting bloggers that you know, I'd love it if you could forward this to any other networks you know across all boundaries.
We also would love as much creative help as possible in advertising this, designing logos, etc. I've put some very basic badge designs up on the blogring but I'd love better options from more creative people.
Again, I have intentionally not branded this as an EGR initiative in hopes that many more will jump on and it will take on a life of its own.
Oh ... and kudos to Sabina Alkire who planted the seed for this idea!
Christ's peace,
Mike+
... BTW, we're up to 633 people signed up for the Day of Prayer, Fasting and Advocacy ... and the number of "awaiting reply" listings is staying constant at 1500-1600, which means people are continuing to invite their friends. I'm hopeful we'll hit 1,000 by Friday! Keep spreading the word (and you can also go to www.sept25.org to sign up!)
-- The Rev. Mike Kinman Executive Director, Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation MKi...@gmail.com + 314.348.6453 http://www.e4gr.org + http://www.e4gr.blogspot.com
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