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Blogging for charity

Raul — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:23:15 +0000

After just having completed our recent Bowling for Big Brothers event (where some local Vancouver bloggers -yours truly included – participated), and still feeling a bit physically weak because of my week-long illness, I didn’t really feel much like I wanted to blog. However, I figured I would start getting a feel for what will be my next (and last, for the year 2008) charity event.

Phaedra asked me about the format of Blogathon, and about my experience. If you want to read all my Blogathon posts, feel free to do so. The short story is: you blog every 30 mins for 24 hours, and it is a gruelling experience. Both Rebecca (aka Miss604) and I Blogathoned last year, and I was really out-of-whack for a solid week and a half afterwards. But it was a good experience altogether, for many reasons. Many of my friends sponsored me, a lot of people accessed my blog while doing Blogathon and it provided a worthy charity with much-needed funding. Sharing this experience with Rebecca was also extremely fun and I thank her for tipping me over the edge after I had been sitting on the fence on whether I should Blogathon or not.

This year, I am much better prepared I think. I know what I’m going to do to fill the Blogathon with enough interesting content (one of my strategies – I will recruit guest-bloggers – most likely I will be guest-blogging for others too). I also plan to advertise widely about my Blogathoning. Furthermore, I have a much stronger platform (WordPress) and thus can plant trackbacks and link back to other bloggers with much more ease. And overall, I think I’m a more resilient person than I was last year, so I am hoping it will be fun. Phaedra is thinking of doing it, I think Rebecca is planning on doing it so the question is – who else will be Blogathoning?

To read a re-cap of the bowling for Big Brothers event, read Keira-Anne’s related post.

Blogging for Big Brothers – Registration :)

Raul — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:20:00 +0000

Well, I finally found my donations page You can click here to sponsor me. The funny thing is that the message is not mine. I’ll update it with a more personal message (because the reason why I joined the team is not the one on the main page) but for now, it should work. I just think it’s a great cause.

And it should be fun to share these good times with the bloggers I’ve always read but so far, have not met in person!

Blogging for Big Brothers – and bowling too :)

Raul — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 06:45:00 +0000

So Rebecca (aka Miss604) is organizing a team of bloggers who will be bowling for Big Brothers. As most of you know, dear readers, I have a tendency to volunteer. I’ve done a lot of charity work — literacy campaigns, sex education, meals-on-wheels, etc. Since I became a blogger (and again, thanks to the positive influence of Rebecca), I found yet another avenue to give – the Blogathon. This was one of the most fun things I have done for charity.

Must confess that I was deciding whether I should Bowl for Big Brothers, and I factored a number of elements in my decision. First, it’s a charity and an important one. Second, it would give me a chance to have fun with my fellow bloggers, hang out and do a good deed. Third, it is important for a dear friend of mine (the event itself, Bowling for Big Brothers). And fourth, although I am definitely busy, I’m not as crazy busy as I’ve been in the past couple of years.

Well, I did it. I signed on. I’m not 100% sure that my page is correct, so I can’t link you to my “Sponsor Raul” page right now, but I’ll get to it. The first thing (and most important thing) is that I signed up

I was considering the possibility of raising funds through carefully written posts. Yeah, kind of what I did for Blogathon. My individual goal is $ 100, so let’s say that I wanted you all to contribute. So I’d basically do a 24 hour Blogathon to raise the funds, and I’d be asking people to say, give $ 0.50 (fifty cents) per blog post (so if I did 48, that automatically would ensure a $ 24 dollar donation). I’m mulling over how to do this. Suggestions accepted.

I will of course be bugging my close friends to sponsor me, but I also kind of want to ‘earn’ the sponsorship, particularly if it comes from my readers. I mean, there must be some kind of reward or incentive for you all, right? Anyways, suggestions taken for a fun method to raise funds for Bowling for Big Brothers. My individual goal is $ 100.00 but I’d be more than happy to surpass it.