Blog the MDGs on Sept. 25 -- World MDG Blogging Day
For more on the MDGs, go to http://www.e4gr.org/mdgs/fast_facts.html
We're far behind on meeting these goals by the target date of 2015 ... and most of the rich nations of the world (the U.S. included) are not keeping the promises we made in aid, trade and debt relief.
On Sept. 25, 2008, we're asking you to join with bloggers around the world to post about making poverty history. It can be information about the MDGs. It can be a story of extreme poverty from your own life or travels. It can be a poem, a podcast, a video clip, a jpg of a piece of art, a prayer, an open letter to your leaders ... whatever your way of raising your voice to let people know about the 1.2 billion people who live on less than $1 a day.
It's easy to join:
1. Choose a "World MDG Blogging Day" badge below and paste the appropriate code into your blog. This is a necessary step ... the blogring we are using won't register you without a badge.
2. Click here to join the World MDG Blogging Day webring
3. Email your blogging friends (sample email below to cut and paste) and let them know you are blogging for the MDGs on Sept. 25 and ask them to do so as well.
4. Check back to this site and throughout www.e4gr.org for resources on the MDGs to spark your imagination for your blogpost.
Choose one of these badges for your website
See instructions below for adding code to "Blogger" sites.
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Instructions for adding badge code to Blogger sites
1. Log in at www.blogger.com
2. In your bloglisting on the Dashboard, click on "Layout"
3. Click on "Add a Gadget"
4. On "Add a Gadget" popup screen sctoll down and click on "HTML/JavaScript"
5. Cut and paste badge code under "content" ... add title if you like. CLick on "save"
6. Back on page element screen, click on orange "save" button to save changes.
Instructions for adding badge code to Wordpress sites
1) Log onto your Wordpress dashboard
2) click on "Design"
3) in the subheadings, click on "widgets"
4) on the list of available widgets, click on "add" next to "Text"
5) a bad that says "Text" will appear on the right side of the page, click on "edit" on that bar.
6) Cut and paste the text from the vertical badge:
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into the space and hit "change"
7) Click on "save changes"
Send an email like this to your blogging friends
"Dear _______,
I'm writing to invite you to join with bloggers all around the world on Thursday, September 25, 2008 to use the power of our voices to help make extreme poverty history ... to join me in observing World MDG Blogging Day.
On Sept. 25 there is a special high-level meeting at the UN to discuss progress made on the Millennium Development Goals -- 8 goals that the nations of the world promised to achieve by 2015. Right now we are not close to keeping that promise.
By blogging on the MDGs and our nation's moral imperative to meet its promises to achieve them, we will raise awareness about the more than 1 billion people who live on less than $1 a day and about our ability to bring them out of that extreme poverty. We will let people know that we can make poverty history ... if we have the will.
What should you blog? Anything you want. You can find information to share at many website, including Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation (which is sponsoring the blogging day), the ONE Campaign, DATA, the Micah Challenge and the Millennium Campaign.
More powerfully, you could just blog from your heart. Tell a story. Relate a dream. Anything that will capture minds, move hearts and inspire spirits.
To join just go to www.sept25.org and follow the directions. It's that easy.
I hope you'll join us on Sept. 25 to help Make Poverty History."
We have this set up as a blogring, so on Sept. 25 you can surf through as many as you want and read inspiring stories from around the world.
