Two years ago, Robyn of Shutterblog, then (TampaTantrum) tore me a new one when I questioned her campaign to raise money for breast cancer research. At the time, I didn't believe that they were trying to help cancer research at all in the beginning, and the cancer research was only an afterthought. There were many "gimme sites" popping up all over the place and I was immediately suspicious of this campaign. Read all about it from the links above.
However, since then the Boobie-Thon campaign has become bigger (excuse the double-entendre) and better. And certainly, what I would consider more "pure". A true charity to help certain bloggers as well as cancer research. Robyn has a "bloggers helping bloggers" angle that I appreciate. Suffice it to say that I do not feel the same way about the second, third and future campaigns as I did towarsd the first. I'll have to see if I can spare any cash this time around for the campaign.
I wonder what a large pool of blogger money, say, $100 000, could be used for in the blogger community. There are charities, helping people out who come upon some tough times. There are also those organizations such as Strengthen the Good whose mission is in
raising awareness for small charities around the world. Every three weeks this space highlights a new “micro-charity”—a small, inspiring charity, one with a real face and where $1 makes a difference—and the bloggers in the network link to that post, sending traffic, and awareness, the charity’s way.
Personally, in addition to this I would like to see a funded program for people who blog. There are seminars and university courses for blogs. I'd like to see more on how blogs will be used in universities as part of certain courses. Write a great essay and the Blog-Ed Foundation (I'd try and think of something better) will fund your course on blogging, or we'll help create a course for your university. There could be so much we could do. In fact, I introduced the concept of blogging to my French writing professor in an essay I wrote recently. I'll post it in my MT 3.0 test blog soon after I talk to her about the applications that she sees.
Well, Robyn, if you read this, no hard feelings, eh?
I don't remember what I had for breakfast today, much less remember enough to hold a 2-year grudge. ;-) Thanks!
I was waiting for this one.