If you believe in blogging at all, then you have to believe that bloggers united for a cause can be a strong driving force to change. The motivation behind Blog action day is that bloggers around the world gather one day a year to discuss subjects that concern all of us as individuals.
On October 15 last year, thousands of bloggers wrote about the environment and targeted an audience of millions. The environment has become a frequent and recurrent subject but the need for a change of conscience and attitude on that field is still huge and what has been done is not yet enough.
This year, Blog Action Day’s subject is poverty, and so far 8,634 Sites already engaged on the cause and will reach an audience of 9,201,889 subscribers.
Why is your post important?
Now, with all the media coverage on the subject, why is your blog post important?
As a blogger, you probably know that relationship between writers and readers in blogs are much more personal than in traditional media and when you write a post on your blog you might be targeting only a few hundred people (or even less) but these few people are listening to you and if there are bloggers among your readers, they’ll be talking to some people who are actually listening to them.
Why is not off-topic on your blog
Poverty, just like environment, is a subject that concerns every single human being and your blog and your business, as tools for your business, networking or your online persona are part of your footprint on the planet. Being a personal or professional blog, either you or your business have an impact on poverty. Either you are helping, creating poverty or doing nothing, which means, at the very least, endorsing the current situation.
To make a long story short, whatever you write about, has an impact on poverty, either positive or negative, and there is at least some point in which you can discuss the subject inside your niche.
What if I’m wrong?
Say I’m wrong. Say that your niche doesn’t have anything to do with poverty at all, it doesn’t help, it doesn’t get in the way and it doesn’t endorse the current poverty. Well, then the non-relationship of your niche with the subject is so unique that it is on itself a subject to write about and I’d be the first one to read your post.
What’s in for me?
Well before being bloggers, entrepreneurs and professionals, we are all human beings and I’d be happy if that were enough reason, but if that’s not, then let’s roll up the sleeves for some simple math.
There are 8,634 blogs registered and a fixed audience of 9,201,889 Readers and the numbers are growing. It is quite likely that this event will have a lot of more traditional media coverage and the networking happening on this event will be massive and you risk end up knowing interesting people you wouldn’t normally meet.
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