When other bloggers are preoccupied with group writing projects, boosting traffic, making money online, linking strategies and so on (not that there is something wrong with that), there are other bloggers that have different… hobbies.
Some start a “Blog Action Day” to raise awareness for the environment, while others are more preoccupied to feed the world. I like that thought. Do you know what is the best food for the world? I don’t think we need to start a poll about this.
Ignorance lays at the root of all evil. There is only one way to combat famine, disease and war and that is education.
So a movement like LitLiberation makes sense. I learned about this at Profy and it was a pleasant surprise to see such an entry on a tech blog. And even a bigger surprise to learn that a couple of high authority tech blogs plan to change the world in just 30 days and raise $1 million dollars. I have no idea how much they raised so far, but Phil Butler (the author of the entry at Profy) managed to raise $ 300 USD. And his goal is to reach 2500. I say… let’s help.
So here is my idea: if you want to help the tech bloggers change the world, if you want to make a difference, consider making a small contribution to the cause. You can do it on Phil’s page or by creating your own pages and asking your readers, family and friends to contribute.
And this is really fun too. Here are the rules as posted at LitLiberation.
Can we raise $1,000,000 from normal people in just four weeks? Many of the world’s top CEOs and bloggers think so. Here’s how it works…
Step 1. Decide if you would like to support education in US public schools, in developing countries, or both. (2 minutes)
Step 2. Create a personal donation challenge page in 5 minutes, which you then show to others. (5 minutes) For developing countries, create a page here (here is a sample effective page you can copy and paste from to save time). For US public schools, create a page here.
Step 3. Spread the word and you can win unreal prizes like a roundtrip anywhere in the world, recognition from Google, lunch with Jerry Yang (co-founder of Yahoo!), a thank you in the next printing of a #1 NY Times bestseller, artwork from world-famous artists, VIP passes to exclusive parties with CEOs and celebrities, and much, much more. (5 minutes+)
If you cannot afford a donation now just spread the word. Blog about this wonderful initiative. Let the world know. Get involved.
I was planning to tag a few bloggers, but I know I don’t need to tag any of my readers for something like this. I know your hearts and I know that you will be there.
A very worthy cause Mihaela, I’ll see what I can do for a post a little later this week.
Maybe I’m just sleep deprived today, but I’m a little confused. The donation challenge page is posted on another site that accpeets the donations, and we point visitors from a post we write to it? I didn’t follow through with the procedure to its end to find out since I wasn’t prepared, to find out if it creates something with links to verisign that accepts the donations.
It may be much easier to simply do as you’ve done and send visitors to Profy’s site to help them meet their challenge
Well, I thought that pointing to Profy makes sense, since I don’t have a tech blog and the challenge appeared to be for tech blogs. But then I dug more into this matter to find out that you can do how you want. The challenge is for everyone. You can really create your own account and win a prize in the process too. This thing about winning a prize it’s confusing though. Do we really need a prize to help kids?