06.25.08 Will Blog For Food
174 bloggers got an e-mail from me this month asking them to post about the global food crisis, the Global Food Crisis Fund and Compassion’s Day of Prayer and Fasting (today, June 25th). They got this e-mail because they took the time to visit CompassionBloggers.com and sign up to receive monthly blog “assignments.” Every month they get an e-mail asking them to blog about a specific Compassion-related initiative or need and supplying them with all the relevant facts and links they’ll need to complete that mission. And they’ve done an incredible job so far.
Instead of blogging about the food crisis, the fund or the day of prayer and fasting myself, I’ll let them do the talking for me. Here are just some of the great posts written this month by Compassion bloggers. To become a Compassion blogger yourself, just sign up and you’ll hear from me next month.
http://itstrueroo.blogspot.com/2008/06/my-thoughts-on-global-food-crisis.html
http://lifeatthecircus.com/2008/06/21/weekend-thought-the-global-food-crisis/
http://foursillysisters.blogspot.com/2008/06/global-food-crisis.html
http://www.wearethatfamily.com/2008/06/hungry.html
For more posts go to our page on del-icio.us or visit our tumblog. I’ll be adding to the list all day.
Bonus: I just found this video of Wess Stafford, president of Compassion International, explaining the food crisis. If you haven’t posted about this crisis yet, this might be a good thing to include in your post.
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Brad Ruggles said:
Wow, that’s disturbing. Thanks for making me aware of this crisis. I’ll be informing my blog readers and including this video this week.
emma said:
Shaun, I signed up for these but haven’t been getting them… not sure if it’s maybe an issue with my Hotmail account? Any ideas on how to resolve it, should I just sign up again with a different email address?
Shaun Groves said:
Good to know, Emma. Can you do me a favor and sign up again? I’ll check the database tomorrow to see if your e-mail address went through this time.
Thanks. This kind of bug finding is VERY helpful.
emma said:
Signed up with my hotmail a/c again there, let me know if it works! Cheers!
Amy said:
I suppose I should mention then, that is seems to go to spam in my yahoo account.
Robin said:
What a brilliant, powerful way to use our words...for such good, to bring LIGHT into dark places.
I just cleared Bloglines of over 5,000 unread posts :/--and somewhere along the way, missed this initiative. I won’t next time. The posts I’ve stumbled across on my own have been compelling, convicting and motivating to DO SOMETHING.