Blogathon 2005

29 December, 2004 11:11 AM

Last January I decided to raise a little money for a cause that I was passionate about by doing a 24 hour Blogathon. I started the process at 3.52am on 21 January and ended at 3.51am on 22 January.

We ended up raising $540US to go towards buying Filipino families 'pedicabs' to give them a way of earning an ongoing income for their family. We reached our goal of buying two pedicabs and I'm happy to report that the first two families have received and are paying off their pedicabs (the project we donated to loans money to families to set themselves up in business which they pay back over 12 months - the money is then used to repeat the process every year with a new family).

Anyway - this year I've decided to do the blogathon again at a similar time to last year (mid January). I'm yet to settle on an actual date but have decided to that the money raised this time around will go to a charity who is working in countries affected by the Boxing Day Tsunami.

I'll write more about it as it gets closer but thought I'd let people know in advance. As with last time I'd love to get your involvement in as many ways as possible. You can obviously help by making a donation on the day - but other ways of helping out would include:

- ask me a question/s in comments below for me to answer on the day (last time I posted 112 or so posts over the 24 hours - it is hard to come up with topics for them all)
- spread the word about the event to try to get people to the project (I'll be running it on a purpose built blog this year)
- keep my company on the day and proof read my postings (last year a number of other bloggers read through a lot of my posts and pointed out some of the bigger mistakes that I made in my sleep deprived state)

If you'd like to be involved just let me know in comments below or shoot me an email.

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