Here’s the 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. Put a link on your MySpace, Facebook (you can setup Facebook to automatically post your blog updates as notes), other blog to your AIM blog. Start including it in support letters. Write about something that’s not about you – about what the Jan Racers are doing in Mozambique, about injustice in Thailand, about the poor man you met on the street last night. Open people’s eyes. 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… 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.
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. Be free to do more than that – to use more than just text. Let a picture tell the story. Use all the different media at your disposal.
For ideas you can check out:
http://jeffgoins.myadventures
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