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Social Media, “Time Poor” Thinking, and Blog Action Day

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Time Poor Isn’t Poverty

So many of us in this social media world have been feeling “time poor.” As we see what’s happening with the economy, we’re starting to realize that there are far worse things than being “time poor,” that “time poor” isn’t the kind of poverty that means we don’t get to eat.

As we take a day to do something to shed a light on real poverty, let’s do it with gusto and generosity by thinking and acting “time rich.”

When someone needs our attention — online or off — we can take time to find out why. We move use social media move the Blog Action Day conversation forward. We can look away from our screens to talk to our families, hoping that our online friends are doing the same thing, knowing they’ll be there when we get back. What a blog action day it will be if we actually think and act “time rich.”

It doesn’t take but a second to listen, to open our minds and our time, to add rich value to every connection in our lives.

“Time rich” is being generous with the time we have and realizing that we have all of the time we need for important things. We’re more aware of what it means to connect for others who need help.

This year, we give up our “time poor” thinking to get the world to see and respond to people who are poor in devastating ways.

Have you got some “time rich” thinking to shed a light on the kind of poverty that means folks don’t get to eat?

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Here’s where you’ll find us!
Twitter: @BlogActionDay
Web: http://www.blogactionday.org
Blog Talk Radio: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/blogactionday

Social Media for Non-profits Roundtable (moderated by Vicky Hennegan) live on Blog Talk Radio 5pm (EST) October 15th

CALL-IN NUMBER 347 308-8594

Guest Panel: Paul Chaney, Liz Strauss, Mark J. Carter, and Beth Kanter
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–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Change the Conversation to Change the World?

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When Talk IS Action

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Three years ago, I was not about joining. My experience had been that groups pushed aside individuals who had different-sized ideas. Then I became part of this culture — individuals who could work together and respect each other’s individuality.

The group projects that work that way are riicher, deeper, and filled with more ideas. Blog Action Day is one of those.

This year on October 15th, Blog Action is inviting us to change our conversation to one issue . . .


Blog Action Day 2008 Poverty from Blog Action Day on Vimeo.

Thousands of voices, talking with their own words about the same thing. That’s conversation as action.

We can change the world — just like that.
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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Blog Action Day: Personal Environmental Action

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Blog Action Day, October 15, 2007

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Environment
Notes: 1. environment emerged linked with nature, implying ‘natural’ (not human, not cultural) surroundings; ecology emerged as a scientific effort to connect organisms (such as the human) to their environments
2. environment is the area in which something exists or lives; habitat is a the place or type of place where a person or thing is most likely to be found

Source: Roget’s New Millenniumâ„¢ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.3.1) Copyright © 2007 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. All rights reserved.

Please don’t misunderstand. I love the sky and stars, the flowers, the animals and the ocean, the fire that lights and warms, and the rainbow colors that stole my heart when my eyes first opened. They steal my breath. I’m stunned to silence whenever I reflect on life without them.

Yet I wonder whether environmental change has a chance when we focus on their protection. Imagine nurturing what we can. . . . The question tugs at me do have a hope of healing the planet when we’re so woeful at healing ourselves, our missteps, and our own hurt feelings.

What if we healed our personal environment first? What if we brought our whole selves to make a whole Earth? Would doing the first part make the second part happen faster?

Personal Environmental Action

Did you ever love playing in the dirt?

What if we start with us? What if we heal ourselves first?

Inside our heads.
Inside our hearts.
Inside our thoughts and feelings.
About ourselves.
About others.
What if we put away the drama?

Do we love the words that hide inside our heads,
the words that say we don’t deserve
the breath-taking world set before us?
Let’s live self-respect and deserve what we have.

It doesn’t have to hurt.

Do we love the people, who
have taken trust and broken it,
violated and defiled something good?
Let’s shine our hearts on caretakers and caregivers instead.

Did you ever wish upon a star?

Do we love the events in the past,
that strapped the world — its fights and
its hurts — on ou rbacks and shoulders?
Let’s leave yesterday’s battlefield to reach the gold of tomorrow.

We get to pick who we are.

Self-respect and a shining vision on so many hearts,
just might be the gentle rain we need to heal the world
. . . without a word, a law, a cause.

There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer . . . — Emmett Fox

It starts with us . . . and how we love.

Did you ever love playing in the dirt?

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Do you suppose if we thought more of ourselves, we would take better care of the planet? Or do you think that the problem is rooted in thinking about ourselves too much already?

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Blog Action Day: October 15, 2007

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Imagine the Power

Do you know about Blog Action Day?
The countdown has begun to October 15. On that day every blogger who participates will be writing something related the environment and keeping it safe. Each blogger will address the topic in his or her own way within the context of his or her own blog.

The cool part is everyone will be posting on the same day . . . October 15th!

To quote the organizers

Blog Action Day is about MASS participation. That means we need you! Here are 3 ways to participate:

. . . . What would happen if every blog published posts discussing the same issue, on the same day? One issue. One day. Thousands of voices.

Click the logo above to get more information.

–ME “Liz” Strauss
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