I just recently joined a website called Bloggers Unite which allows bloggers to promote a cause on their blogs. The way it works is on the day of the “cause” members of Bloggers Unite will blog about the specific cause to raise awareness on the cause. Each time a new cause comes up on the website I will update the banner on the right to reflect the new cause. I don’t want any of the causes to become lost as a new cause comes up so I will create an archived page for past causes so you can access the cause in the future.
I want to do this to help make a difference and raise awareness. Sometimes we get caught up in things in our own lives and we don’t realize what is happening around us. I’m guilty of this – most of the time it’s worrying about college, jobs, personal life issues that sometimes we lose sense of other things that are going on around us. In certain circumstances, we don’t realize how bad the situation really is.
Being a journalist, I have the ability to communicate with a large group of people. By blogging about these various causes, I hope to reach many people and raise awareness of these issues. Web designers know to put the most important stuff “above the fold” – just like in newspapers. If you don’t read anything else on my site – I want you to read the “Make a Difference” portion of the sidebar.
If you don’t donate to the cause – which I hope all of you do then please, please, please pass either the posts I write on the issues or direct them to the organizations website. All you have to do is copy and paste a link into an email, AIM message, Facebook/Twitter status. That simple action could help someone!
