Blogathon for Hunger 2006 - The Context
Posted by John Lockwood on November 25th, 2006
Earlier this year on my Oakland site, I tried my hand at doing a little fundraiser called “Blogathon for Hunger 2006“. This was inspired by the official 2006 Blogathon, which I thought was a really clever and well-meaning idea but whose entry date I missed.
My own Oakland Blogathon for Hunger was a lot of fun, and it got me to do two things that are important to me that I don’t always do:
- Write a bunch of stuff on one of my web sites in a very short time.
- Help some people who are less fortunate than myself.
This Fall as this El Dorado and Amador County site took off a few things became apparent to me all at once, leading me to think it would be a good idea to resurrect the Blogathon for Hunger for a December run in El Dorado and Amador County.
- My daughter Helen was several hours behind on her community service obligation for Shenandoah High School. I thought the Blogathon would be a good way to catch her up and get her a chance to participate in the family business at the same time.
- Thanksgiving was almost upon us — no wait, Thanksgiving just happened. There we were in the Winter holiday season, and the El Dorado County Association of Realtors® was no doubt in full swing on its yearly CanTree effort (See the PDF file, The Other Side of EDCAR for more information).
- This web site was just starting to take off, and I needed to start getting as much published here as I could.
- Our inventory of homes was getting fairly high, so I thought some of my colleagues might like an opportunity to contribute to the cause of hunger relief while at the same time getting some free exposure for their sellers’ listings.
So anyway, that’s how I ended up here, rather early in the morning on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, talking about the background of this year’s Fall and Winter edition of the Blogathon for Hunger, which I envision as being:
- Better publicized than the summer effort, both online and through fliers distributed locally.
- Lasting from December 1st to December 15th, 2006.
- Having proceeds be equally and fully distributed to the El Dorado County Food Bank and the Amador County Food Bank. (See these and other members of the California Association of Food Banks.)
- Having more bloggers (and more sponsors!) than just me.
So anyway, that’s a first post to kick things off. Now to go make it happen…