a space for grace

The idea of  Blog Action Day is to get as many bloggers focussed on one topic at the same time to generate excitement and publicity. This year’s topic is climate change. Using social media for positive change is so appealing. The ability of the medium to generate buzz and foster conversation shouldn’t be underestimated.

I had never heard of Blog Action Day until today. Yesterday I decided to test out Metcalfe’s Law and almost doubled the amount of people and organizations I was following on Twitter. As a result I am receiving much more information, most of it quite useful. I have also acquired new followers so my own tweets will be sent out to a larger audience.

This morning I received a tweet about Blog Action Day and was intrigued enough to follow up. Over 9,000 blogs from all over the world are registered to participate and some great videos are posted on the main site.  I have commemorated the day myself by posting some titles about climate change and about blogging from my institution’s library on our internal electronic announcement system.  And I’m writing this post.  Are you going to participate?