Blog Action Day<http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vdGhlY29ybmVyLnR5cGVwYWQuY29tL2JjLzIwMDgvMTAvYmxvZy1hY3Rpb24tZGF5Lmh0bWw=>(Oct. 15) - Will You Raise Your Voice to Poverty in Austin?
Today, 20% of the folks in our wonderful hometown live in what is considered poverty conditions - approximately 200,000 of Travis County residents are classified as "working poor" by the Texas Department of Human Services. The estimates are that 41,000 children under the age of 18 in Travis County are confronted with food insecurity every day. Far too often, these are flat fact, numbers that wiz by. On Blog Action Day<http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vYmxvZ2FjdGlvbmRheS5vcmcv>(Oct. 15), Austin bloggers, podcasters and videocasters will devote 24 hours to capturing the face of poverty in Austin today, focusing on the personal story behind the facts of living in poverty. A core team will focus on a street retreat immersion effort, delivering updates via Twitter, small video updates & audio segments, as well as scheduled webinars. By engaging with stories from a wide variety of voices & mediums, online readers in Austin will be immersed in an experience of what it means to live in poverty in Austin today. Working side-by-side with Mobile Loaves & Fishes<http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3Lm1sZm5vdy5vcmcvc2l0ZS9QYWdlU2VydmVy>and Capital Area Food Bank<http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LmF1c3RpbmZvb2RiYW5rLm9yZy8=>, there are 3 objectives for this project:.. ....Raise community awareness of the personal aspects of living in poverty in our hometown.. ..Communicate a unified call-to-action across a variety of organization working with poverty in Austin, spotlighting specific ways to face poverty in Austin.. ..Engage the broader Austin community in how to respond to these stories, harnessing our city's unique imagination & creativity .... We need *your help* to make this happen: ....Sign up to blog for at least one hour during Blog Action Day (Oct. 15) - just go here and sign up:...... http://www.doodle.ch/participation.html?pollId=kyawmrma58rxup99<http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LmRvb2RsZS5jaC9wYXJ0aWNpcGF0aW9uLmh0bWw/cG9sbElkPWt5YXdtcm1hNThyeHVwOTk=> ......Consider joining us for some or all of the street retreat immersion effort - if you want more info or want to be involved, just email me <http://bulletins.myspace.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.... at [EMAIL PROTECTED] ....Expand the network for this effort - forward this post to at least 10 friends in Austin who might want to join us.... Our neighbors who live in poverty conditions are people just like us, with stories to share. You can be a conduit for sharing those stories - just say *YES* to being part of Blog Action Day (Oct. 15), raising your voice to poverty in Austin. .. http://thecorner.typepad.com/bc/2008/10/blog-action-day.html<http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vdGhlY29ybmVyLnR5cGVwYWQuY29tL2JjLzIwMDgvMTAvYmxvZy1hY3Rpb24tZGF5Lmh0bWw=> Blog Action Day <http://www.myspace.com/blogactionday> is an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world's bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post about the same issue on the same day. Our aim is to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion. Global issues like poverty are extremely complex. There is no simple, clear answer. By asking thousands of different people to give their viewpoints and opinions, Blog Action Day creates an extraordinary lens through which to view these issues. Each blogger brings their own perspective and ideas. Each blogger posts relating to their own blog topic. And each blogger engages their audience differently. What is the aim of Blog Action Day? First and last, the purpose of Blog Action Day is to create a discussion. We ask bloggers to take a single day out of their schedule and focus it on an important issue. he blogging community effectively changes the conversation on the web and focuses audiences around the globe on that issue. By doing so on the same day, the blogging community effectively changes the conversation on the web and focuses audiences around the globe on that issue. Out of this discussion naturally flow actions, advice, ideas, plans, and empowerment. In 2007 on the theme of the Environment, we saw bloggers running environmental experiments, detailing innovative ideas on creating sustainable practices and focusing audience's attentions on organizations and companies promoting green agendas. In 2008 we aim to again focus the blogging community's energies and passions, this time on the mammoth issue of global poverty. Mass Participation >From the smallest online journals, to huge online magazines, to EU ministers, to professionals and amateurs, Blog Action Day is about mass participation. Anyone is free to join in on Blog Action Day and there is no limit on the number of posts, the type of posts or the direction of thoughts and opinions. http://www.myspace.com/blogactionday --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Our Web site: http://www.RefreshAustin.org/ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Refresh Austin" group. [ Posting ] To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Job-related postings should follow http://groups.google.com/group/Refresh-Austin/web/refresh-austins-job-posting-guidelines. We do not accept job posts from recruiters. 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