Announcing Blog Action Day 2008

If you haven’t been following Collis Ta’eed over at FreelanceSwitch or the fella behind Zen Habits, perhaps you’ve seen some of the 2,600+ other blogs announcing the launch of Blog Action Day 2008. “The premise behind Blog Action Day is to get the world’s bloggers to unite to post on one important issue on the same day,” writes Ta’eed. This year the issue in the spotlight is Global Poverty.

Last year’s focus was on the Environment and over 20,000 blogs came together with surprising results. According to Collis, the UN noticed and so did the EU Minister for the environment. Not too shabby, blogosphere.

Want to add your voice to the pot? To participate, visit BlogActionDay.org and register your blog (takes about 2 minutes). Then on October 15, do your part as a blogger or social media junkie and post about anything at all that has to do with Poverty.

The goal of Blog Action Day ‘08 is to raise awareness in hopes of forging a way to eradicate Poverty once and for all. On October 15, join forces with Lifehacker, TechCrunch, Mashable and many more of the Top 100 blogs in the world.

It all starts with a conversation; don’t discount the importance of raising awareness. Check it out at BlogActionDay.org and get yourself on the blogroll.