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Blogathon 2009 started this morning at 0600 PDT/1300 UTC!
Number of blogs: 144      Total pledges: 49,227.91

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  • Jen

    Haiti Blogging/Fundraising Events

    Jen 7:34 pm on January 18, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply

    I promised that I’d post any blogathons for Haitian earthquake relief, so…

    [+] Mathea Tanner is encouraging you to play with your food and post about it to raise money for UNICEF. This is an ongoing photoblogging food deal that runs through February 28th.

    [+] Apparently, I really don’t have enough on my plate with a 9 1/2 month old that’s teething, an impending move, a job, 4 cats, and a myriad of other things because I (Jen, the charity princess) am doing a mini-blogathon (only 12 hours this time) to raise money for Direct Relief International. The date is January 30, 2009 and the time is 9:00 am MST to 9:00 PM MST. I’ll be writing a murder mystery in 30 minute installments.

    If anyone else has a blogging event they’re doing to raise money for Haitian earthquake victims, let me know.

     
  • Jen

    Resources to Help Out Haiti Earthquake Victims

    Jen 7:25 pm on January 13, 2010 | 1 Permalink | Reply

    It’s Jen the charity princess again!

    Unless you’ve been under a rock r the last 24 hours, you’ve probably heard that there was a 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Haiti. We’re talking MASSIVE damage to infrastructure, loss of life numbering in the HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS, and just an incredible situation in which there is astronomical need.

    As we’re a group of grassroots-type people here who raise money for worthy causes, I thought it might be a good thing to post some links to groups that are raising funds to help the earthquake victims.

    [+] International Red Cross: They’ve raised over $1 million through their text-messaging campaign. (Text “Haiti” to 90999 and it donates $10 which will appear on your cell phone bill.) They are backed in this by the state department.

    [+] Mashable.Com also has a list of 9 ways to donate.

    If any of you decide to do a personal blogathon on behalf of the earthquake victims, let me know (khouria.jen [at] gmail) and I’ll post them.

    Thanks!

     
  • Jen

    Happy 2010!!!!

    Jen 4:45 pm on January 1, 2010 | 4 Permalink | Reply

    Hey all y’all!!!

    This is Jen, the charity liaison for Blogathon 2009 with a reminder on the details of Blogathon 2010.

    The Date: July 31, 2010
    The Time: 6 a.m. PDT

    More information to come as the event gets closer.

     
    • Jess 10:23 pm on January 4, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Thank you. Glad to know when 2010’s is so that I can plan accordingly!

      • Trish 2:20 pm on January 6, 2010 Permalink | Reply

        Oh – excellent! I ended up being unable to meet the date last year. Now I can plan accordingly to blog with everyone else. Thanks!!

    • Tom 3:23 pm on February 19, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Yes i can take part for deffo :)

    • Hope 11:16 am on March 8, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      So glad to know when it is this year so that I can get prepared for the fun and exhaustion :) THANK YOU

  • Jen

    Some Blogathon Events of Interest

    Jen 4:11 pm on October 12, 2009 | 2 Permalink | Reply

    In the interest of helping out those who want to raise funds for good causes, here are two blogathons that are happening or will be happening this month.

  • The Turtle Blogathon which raises money for turtle conservation on October 25-26th
  • The Women’s Fund Blogging Against Violence 2009 which raises funds for the Women’s Fund taking place October 1-15th
  • If you’re doing a blogathon for charity, please let me know by emailing me at charity @ blogathon-dot-org.

 
  • Jen

    Hope for Healing Blogathon

    Jen 4:17 pm on August 15, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply

    In the interest of promoting like-minded events, I wanted to throw out that there’s a blogathon being done today on behalf of Hope for Healing. It started at 8 a.m. and is going for 24 hours. A list of participants is available here. If you have some time, go leave some encouragement for them.

     
  • Sheana

    Last day to sponsor!

    Sheana 10:22 am on July 31, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply

    Hey bloggers and sponsors – don’t forget that today is your last day to sponsor one of the bloggers who participated in Blogathon this year. After 5pm PDT, we’ll be closing up sponsorships, and emails to sponsors will go out first thing tomorrow morning. Hurry up and sponsor a blogger for the 2009 Blogathon while you still can!

     
  • Colleen

    The After-Party

    Colleen 2:27 pm on July 26, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply

    Remember my post yesterday early this morning asking you to make a video using Donnie’s “Blood-Shot Eyes” lyrics?

    Well, despite the fact that Donnie had been up for abull ovout 46 hours, worked a full overnight shift at work, AND had some car trouble (seriously, go read this post), he rose to the challenge and made a video. It is SO funny that i just had to post it here for our after-party.

    Donnie, thanks for sticking it in there and making us laugh even after you’ve had such a long day.

    If you can spare it, please sponsor Donnie and help him raise some more money for RAINN.

     
  • Sheana

    Thanks, and Happy Trails (until next year)!

    Sheana 6:01 am on July 26, 2009 | 5 Permalink | Reply
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    And Blogathon 2009 is over!

    I could try to sum up the things all of our staff are thinking right now, but that’d pretty much be impossible. Instead, we’ll all just tell you individually. The gist, if you’re too tired to read? The bloggers, sponsors, volunteers, and everyone else who brought Blogathon 2009 together totally rocked (and we still have until Friday to collect more pledges!). See you in 2010!

    Colleen – Team Leader:

    This was my favorite Blogathon experience so far – I had a great group of monitors (JL, Lindsey, Tina, Monique, and Pico), a fantastic group of admins/TLs/VCs (Sheana, Heather, Poe and RickiBeth) and got to see some of the most interesting blogs and sctichks I’ve seen to date. HUGE thanks to all of you for keeping me awake and entertained through these last 24 hours!

    Heather – Administrator:

    I want to thank everyone for making this such a great year! Every year I participate in the Blogathon I learn so much, whether it’s about charities or causes, finding new blogs and bloggers, or that there are some truly heinous things being hocked on TV at three in the morning. Thanks to my friends and fellow ‘thon staffers for keeping things moving and helping me stay awake, especially since it meant extra “L’s” and wrong IM windows, which both tend to be things that only present themselves when you’re getting pretty deficient in the sleep department. Speaking of sleep, go get some!

    Jen – Charity Liaison:

    As the charity person, I do get to work with some pretty special people. I’d like to thank Jack @ AICR, Katie @ First Book, and Chelsea @ RAINN for being so willing to work with people and in Chelsea’s case, recruit them and equip them for fabulousness. In terms of my charity, thanks be to Dawn @ Preeclampsia.Org for working with me and getting excited about what I was doing.

    In terms of helping me survive this year, thanks to Feather, JL, and others who plugged my site and to Noelle who was monitoring me. The people on Blogathon chat helped me stay awake and I appreciated mokia_sindhall staying up with us though she didn’t have to. Thanks Nikki for the chat and Moira for encouraging me and keeping me going. My mommy panel deserves accolades as well as do Bri and Richard who all provided me with something about which I could blog.

    Every year at this time of the ‘thon, I wonder why I beat myself into a bloody pulp doing this. I then remember that I’ve met some awesome people through the ‘thon and the friends I’ve made are so much more worth the tiredness.

    Poe – Volunteer Coordinator:

    I just want to put out a huge thank you to all our monitors. It’s a rough job, and I am always glad when someone steps up to do it. Going around and commenting on all the blogs, just to keep the participants going – it’s always amazing to me to see those who step up to do it. I also want to thank the bloggers themselves. You’ve done a great job this year. I am utterly impressed, as usual, with your creativity, your humor, and your sense of community. For example, many of our bloggers are on twitter this year and twittered about everything they were doing. I know of one blogger who told of having someone from the ‘Thon, whom she had not talked to at all for the entirety of the ‘Thon, respond to a twitter she made, telling her she could make it. I have not found that anywhere else, to be quite honest. I love our bloggers. (= And let us not forget the friends and families of our bloggers, the moral support behind the scenes – or on the blogs. People who did not sign up, but came to cheer on their favorite people anyway. Mokia, who missed the sign-up for the ‘Thon, came out to do some cheerleading. All of her own accord. During the really hard part of the ‘Thon. That’s the type of people we get and I am always moved by the selflessness of people like that. I guess, over all, I want to say – I wouldn’t be anywhere else. I wouldn’t do this with any other people. I thank the Higher Power every year for each and every one of the people involved with the ‘Thon. The bloggers, the monitors, the admin staff, friends, random people who find us and stay. All for a good cause. The ‘Thon for 2009 is over and I hope to see you all again for 2010.

    Rickie – Team Leader:

    To all the participants who made Blogathon 2009 such a success, thank you times a million! From the sponsors who donated their money to the bloggers who donated their sleep, this event truly is about you, and it succeeds only because of the passion you have for your causes. I’ve had a wonderful time taking in all the creativity that’s come out of the past 24 hours, and I can’t wait to do it again in 2010. Um, after a good night’s sleep, that is.


    Sheana – Administrator:

    With the blogging done and still a week left for sponsorships to come in, together we’ve raised over $40,000 – far more than I’d even imagined we’d bring in during this first year back from hiatus. Thoughout the blogathon I have been constantly amazed at the eloquence, tenacity and good humor of all of our amazing bloggers, who’ve put out some of the best content in the history of the Blogathon – and I’ve been doing it every year since ‘01! I am humbled by all the hard work you all did to raise money for your charities, by the perseverance of bloggers like Miss604 who organized local events, and by the all-around awesome stuff that came out of the Blogathon this year. And of course, all of this awesome blogging wouln’t have made as much of an impact if it weren’t for the folks sponsoring our bloggers – so a HUGE thank you to all the folks who pledged (and who still will pledge, until Friday)!

    Additionally, I want to thank all of our amazing volunteers – our Charity Liaison Jen, our Volunteer Coordinator Poe, both of our fabulous Team Leaders Colleen and Rickie Beth, and our ten phenomenal monitors – Stacy, Kirasha, JudyP, Noelle, Jeff, Tina, kteachone, Sareini, MissMope, and sohorhapsody, as well as to honorary cheerleader Mokia who kept our monitors in the chat room energized and upbeat. Thanks also to the awesome folks who helped get us out on other networks like Livejournal, Facebook and Twitter – Barbara and Featherjean, I’m looking at you! Thanks go out to our super-green host Taproot (click the banner on the side to check them out), and especially to our tech guy Chad who put up with late-night emails and pre-’thon instant messages when things went awry. We <3 Taproot!

    This was an amazing Blogathon, and I can't wait to see what happens next year. Oh, and save the date: Blogathon 2010 will begin at 6am PDT on July 31st, 2010!

     
    • Monique 6:05 am on July 26, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      I’m so there! I had a BLAST this year, thank you all for making this experience amazing! :)

    • mokia_sinhall 6:13 am on July 26, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      You guys are gonna make me blush. :p Haha, and don’t worry y’all are stuck with me next year too. I’m glad y’all enjoyed having me with y’all…. (also ignore all the y’all’s: I’m Texan and sleepy they pop out all over the place :p)

    • World of Meh 11:27 am on July 26, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      I am so exhausted! Shut off the PC right as the 6 AM blog went up and unfortunately I couldn’t sleep in past 10 ish. You know what though? Totally worth it. My husband and I had a blast and we got to help out a fantastic charity. I think in about 6 months we will do something like this again on our own, but we will for sure be participating in Blogathon 2010!

      Thank you to everybody who shared this with us, and thanks to everybody who helped put this on!

    • Shadarus 2:35 pm on July 26, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      *yawn* G’mornin’!
      I just wanted to give a shout-out to all the wonderful people who were involved during yesterday’s ‘thon.

      1) Everyone at blogathon.org because you’re absolutely marvelous!
      2) My monitor, Noelle, for taking the time to stop by and cheer me on.
      3) My fellow participants at OpenDiary.com, an astounding 79% of whom made it ALL the way through! That’s some amazing dedication! *round of applause*
      4) The Diary Master at OpenDiary.com for plugging Blogathon on the front page, linking to each and every on-site participant, AND taking the time to cheer each of us on individually.
      5) My sponsors! (You know who you are and you’re all awesome!)
      6) My charity, First Book, who happily sent me a big batch of freebies to give away during the event.
      7) Each and every person who stopped by to wish me well. My blog received FOUR HUNDRED AND SIXTY-EIGHT new comments yesterday… that’s absolutely mind-blowing!

      I, thus far, have pulled in enough pledges for my charity to give out about 80 brand new books to children in need. That’s 80 incredible adventures now available for growing minds… not bad for a day’s work!
      Well done, everyone, and I hope to see you all next year!
      ~A Rather Shady Mogwi

    • Aurora 3:57 pm on July 26, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      That was one question I had but was too tired to think straight last night was when were the last numbers due. Because I have a couple of people in a bidding war and those are best to stretch out as long as possible.

  • Sheana

    Final Contest Winner: Daughter of the Ring of Fire!

    Sheana 5:52 am on July 26, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Huge congratulations to the winner of the final Blogathon contest this year – Kate at Daughter of the Ring of Fire! She’s blogging for Friends International – we’ll be sponsoring her for $20, but we encourage you to give her your support if you can spare some, too!

     
  • Heather

    Blogger Highlight: Daughter of the Ring of Fire

    Heather 5:30 am on July 26, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Elizabeth Kate Switaj of Daughter of the Ring of Fire has been posting some truly beautiful poetry over the last (nearly!) 24 hours.

    This sort of creativity really blows me away — as much as I can appreciate it, I couldn’t write poetry to save my life! And look at how varied it is: she writes about subdivision resurrection, lucidity, camphor trees, flats and efficiencies, and a growing harvest.

    Elizabeth Kate is blogging for Friends International, and can be sponsored here.