Well done, young padawans! (If you don’t know what a padawan is, click here.) You finished the blogging tutorial. I know it was kind of long and a little boring, but I hope it was helpful. Please use what was good and discard anything that didn’t help. And now for your final assignment…
Blog about something that matters – use your voice to change something about the world. Get connected. Send a mass email to friends, family, and supporters with a link to your blog. Then email Jeff when you’ve done it. Here’s some ideas just to help you get started:
- Put a link to your AIM blog on your MySpace, your Facebook (you can setup Facebook to automatically post your blog updates as notes), or another blog. Start including it in support letters. Write about something that is bigger than you that you want to see changed – starving orphans in Swaziland, the injustice of the sex trade in Thailand, the homeless person who lives down the street from you.
- Open people’s eyes. Build awareness. Speak life into dry bones. Call for action, for revival. Give to a charity, and challenge others to do the same.
- Post a video on your blog from YouTube about an issue: poverty, abortion, war, human trafficking, lack of water… and then comment on it – what’s your response?
- The adventure starts now; you have something to say now; be heard. Don’t write another letter to a group of friends. Begin to write as if you had an audience of a thousand… and find a way to make that reality.
- Here’s an excerpt of a World Racer who’s chronicling the lives of bar-girls in Thailand and letting them tell the story – simple and powerful.
You don’t have to do all of these, but do something – be creative. Blogging can get mundane (for you and the reader) if it’s always about what you’re doing or what you’re going thru at any given time. This is your chance to really go for it and be creative. Let a picture tell the story. Use the different media at your disposal.
For ideas you can check out:
http://jeffgoins.myadventures .org/index.asp?filename=better -blogging-pt-41
http://jeffgoins.myadventures .org/index.asp?filename=better -blogging-pt-42
