Blog Action Day is an annual worldwide event where

bloggers A blog (a truncation of "weblog") is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts). Posts are typically displayed in reverse chronological order ...

write about a single topic on November 3 or 4th of every year. The event commenced in 2007 on the inaugural topic of the

environment Environment most often refers to: __NOTOC__ * Natural environment, all living and non-living things occurring naturally * Biophysical environment, the physical and biological factors along with their chemical interactions that affect an organism or ...

. Successive years have focused on

poverty Poverty is the state of having few material possessions or little income. Poverty can have diverse social, economic, and political causes and effects. When evaluating poverty in ...

in 2008 and

climate change In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system. Climate change in a broader sense also includes previous long-term changes to E ...

in 2009. Many popular blogs have participated including the

White House The White House is the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States. It is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., and has been the residence of every U.S. president since John Adams in 1800. ...

blog in 2009. The event has also attracted support from the

United Nations Environment Programme The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is responsible for coordinating responses to environmental issues within the United Nations system. It was established by Maurice Strong, its first director, after the United Nations Conference on th ...

2007: Environment

Blog Action Day was founded by three bloggers Collis Ta'eed, Cyan Ta'eed and

Leo Babauta Zen Habits is a blog written by Leo Babauta about implementing zen habits in daily life. It offers suggestions for how to live and also includes frequent references to how Leo Babauta has implemented these habits. He covers topics such as simpl ...

in 2007. The inaugural theme chosen was the

. The event was hosted by Envato. 23,327 blog posts were published by 20,603 participating blogs including 19 of the

Technorati Technorati was a search engine and a publisher advertising platform that served as an advertising solution for the thousands of websites in its network. Technorati launched its ad network in 2008, and at one time was one of the largest ad network ...

Top 100 blogs at the time.

2008: Poverty

Blog Action Day 2008 was on the theme of

poverty Poverty is the state of having few material possessions or little income. Poverty can have diverse social, economic, and political causes and effects. When evaluating poverty in ...

. 14,053 blog posts were published by 12,800 bloggers.

BlogTalkRadio BlogTalkRadio is a web-based platform that allows podcasters and radio sites and talk show hosts to create live and on-demand talk format content for distribution on the web and podcast distribution channels. Its claim to fame is a web-based 'st ...

held a 12-hour talkathon for poverty relief. Elena Valenciano, Minister for the

European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been des ...

was one prominent participant in 2008.

2009: Climate Change

Blog Action Day 2009 had new hosts:

Change.org Change.org is a worldwide nonprofit petition website, based in California, US, operated by the San Francisco-based company of the same name, which has over 400 million users and offers the public the ability to promote the petitions they care abo ...

and was on the theme of

. Over 32,000 blog posts were published by 12,000 bloggers. Participants in 2009 included UK Prime Minister

Gordon Brown James Gordon Brown (born 20 February 1951) is a British former politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party (UK), Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 to 2010. He previously served as Chance ...

and

Google Google LLC () is an American multinational technology company focusing on search engine technology, online advertising, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, artificial intelligence, and consumer electronics. ...

's Official Blog.

2010: Water

Blog Action Day 2010 is on the theme of Water.

2011: Food

Blog Action Day 2011 is on the theme of Food and will be on October 16, coordinating with

World Food Day World Food Day is an international day celebrated every year worldwide on October 16 to commemorate the date of the founding of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in 1945. The day is celebrated widely by many other organization ...

. Some of the hashtags for the event includ
#BAD11#FoodD#FoodDay#Food

2012: The Power of We

The theme for 2012 is "The Power of We". This topic touches on the subjects of Community, Equality, Anti-Corruption and Freedom The 2017 date is October 16.

References

External links

Blog Action Day site
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