Hi, today I’m not going to talk about money, I will blog for charity. Yesterday I received a message in BlogCatalog saying that the community is going to raise public awareness about organ donation and organ donation issues.

Now, this is a the great opportunity for us all to do something for charity. All you need is to post about organ donation. You can find the details and information here. This idea is great, asking every bloggers to blog for charity. It is a great marketing way, and all bloggers can do something for the community.

Below are some of the of the info that I took from BlogCatalog.

•Stop The Black Market!
Slate Magazine took a hard look at a growing problem around the world. Organ donation is so great, some poor people are being convinced to sell their organs on the black market. In Pakistan, 40 percent of the people in some villages are turning up with only one kidney. There is only one way to stop it and that is encouraging more people to become donors. See the article! http://slate.com/id/2164177/

•Success Story! Alex Pratt of Los Angeles suffered from kidney disease for over 20 years. It was a huge burden on his wife and two children until he received his first transplant in 1993. Unfortunately, it only lasted 9 years, so he had to wait another four years for a second transplant. He would have never gotten a second chance if not for http://www.MatchingDonors.com and a paired donation program at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

•Donors Needed! In Australia, more than 1,700 people are waiting for organ transplants. In Latin America, more than 50,000. In Europe and the United States, more than 95,000. In China, more than 2 million. In Africa, there isn’t enough organization to really know. Without an organ transplant, these people will die. There are many statistics and links to find a good story at Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_donation

•Campaign Promotion! You can blog about BlogCatalog’s effort to do good and how hundreds of bloggers are coming together on BlogCatalog to do good. If this campaign is successful, then we will continue to organize and inspire BlogCatalog Community Awareness Campaigns every other month.

It is a great opportunity to show that bloggers can come together to do good in the world, raising awareness and asking tough questions about causes and issues that do not always get the attention they deserve.

Here’s what the National Business Community Blog ran about us last time.

http://nbcb.blogspot.com/2007/05/blogcatalog-employs-social-media-for.html

We really hope you will join BlogCatalog and hundreds of bloggers around the world on Wednesday July 18th and blog to educate the world about organ donation.

And here are some statistics taken from WalletBooster.

Did you know that…..

• Almost 100,000 men, women and children currently need life-saving organ transplants.
• Every 12 minutes another name is added to the national organ transplant waiting list.
• An average of 18 people die each day from the lack of available organs for transplant.
• In Australia, more than 1,700 people are waiting for organ transplants.
• In Latin America, more than 50,000.
• In Europe and the United States, more than 170,000.
• In China, more than 2 million.
• and last but not least, my loving country Malaysia : There are 15,500 people waiting for kidney transplants and more than 300 who urgently need liver transplants.
• and so many others countries which i couldn’t get the figures here ….. sorry!!!

It is good that you can blog for charity, I believe this kind of campaign will be very important in coming years, this is because the blog sphere is getting more and more common. Almost everyone that have a computer knows about blogging. Therefore you see, blogs are very powerful if you use them right, and if you implement the right marketing ideas, you definitely can make money with your blogs.

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Posted on July 18th, 2007 by Shawn
Filed under: Blog For Charity

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