Blogging For A Cause

A campaign to give corporate cash to the charitable causes bloggers love

Thanks for your participation, Blogging For A Cause has finished.

Blogging campaign has finished. The five charities/non-profits that got the most votes and thus split the total $6000 in prize money:

You can read the final blog post about it with a list of 60+ participating organizations or see the final vote tally.

We encourage you that you continue blogging about your favorite causes as each blog post brings important exposure for the good work they're doing.

We Need You to Blog About Your Favorite Causes.

As a blogger, your voice can change the world. Innovative social media tools, such as blogging give you the means to promote any number of worthwhile charitable causes. It's a big challenge, but one we know our community of blogging friends is up for: making the world a better place.

Zemanta has been working with Social Actions, an initiative that aggregates civic causes from more than 50 databases, to create a tool that recommends charitable causes to bloggers while they write. In recognition of Zemanta's effort, we were awarded 2nd prize at the Change The Web Challenge.

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Zemanta Pays it Forward!

To demonstrate the power of blogging, Zemanta will donate its $3000 in prize money to the charitable causes that our blogging community loves the most.

Weber Shandwick Steps Forward as Well

Our friends at Social Innovation Greenhouse @ Weber Shandwick have graciously stepped forward to match our $3000 pledge. Yup, that's even more money that will be donated to some very worthy causes. Please join us in thanking Weber Shandwick for their generous contribution.

We'd love to hear from other corporate underwriters. It's never too late to join us in making the impact of this campaign greater. If your company would like to contribute to this effort, please contact us at ales@zemanta.com

Attention Non-Profits: Help us spread the word and have your organization featured by bloggers that care about the work you're doing. Add the Blogging For a Cause badge to your website or email newsletter.

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How Your Voice Can Make a Difference

Blog about your favorite non-profit and why their work makes a difference.
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The 5 non-profit organizations that get the most bloggers to endorse them will get the donations. You can write about as many non-profits as you want, but we'll count each one only once per blog post - so make sure you spread the news about this effort to your friends!

You have until the end of the day on the 6th of June (Midnight GMT) to Blog For A Cause. So, hop to it!

You don't have to be a Zemanta user to participate, but we want you to know that Zemanta is compatible with most blogging software platforms and makes it real easy to add related images, videos, articles, links, and tags. Additionally, Zemanta will, by default during this campaign, suggest content from the Social Actions service to inspire bloggers to write about charitable causes - another great reason to use Zemanta! Try our browser extension here.

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About Zemanta

Zemanta is a blogging add-on that recommends blogger-friendly content as you write. It supports all the major blogging platforms: Wordpress, Blogger.com, TypePad, Movable Type, Drupal, Tumblr, ScribeFire and LiveWriter.

It recommends images, articles, links and tags from thousands of different sources, including: Wikipedia, Amazon, IMDB, YouTube, Flickr as well as the Social Actions database. More ...

About Weber Shandwick

Weber Shandwick is a leading global public relations agency with offices in 77 markets around the world. The firm’s reputation is built on its deep commitment to client service, creativity, collaboration and harnessing the power of Advocates - engaging stakeholders in new and creative ways to build brands and reputation. Weber Shandwick provides strategy and execution across world-class practices such as consumer marketing, healthcare, technology, public affairs, corporate/financial and crisis management. Its specialized services include digital/social media, advertising, market research, and corporate responsibility. Weber Shandwick received the highest client-satisfaction honors in the 2007 Agency Excellence Survey by PRWeek U.S., in 2008 won Large PR Firm of the Year (PR News U.S.), and in 2006 was named European Consultancy of the Year (The Holmes Report) and Network of the Year (Asia Pacific PR Awards). The firm also won the United Nations Grand Award for Outstanding Achievement in Public Relations for the past three years.

Social Innovation @ Weber Shandwick is a global specialty group and think tank that delivers exceptional value to clients and partners interested in corporate responsibility, sustainability, strategic philanthropy, cause marketing and advancing social issues. Our mission is to help clients embed and communicate innovative programs and principles across their work, contribute to the public debate on key issues affecting our world and show ROI. Through an approach known as mob-sourcing -- or moso -- the teams use a collaborative digital platform to discuss, debate and develop best-in-class ideas for clients via three offerings: Planet 2050, Social Impact, and the Greenhouse. Weber Shandwick is part of the Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG). For more information, visit http://www.webershandwick.com.

About Social Actions

Social Actions is a nonprofit initiative committed to making it easier for people to find and share opportunities to make a difference.

A search engine on SocialActions.com helps users find ways to take action for the causes they care about from over 30 action sources drawn from sites like Kiva.org, DonorsChoose.org, Change.org, DemocracyinAction, GlobalGiving, Idealist, SixDegrees, VolunteerMatch and Care2. Users can also share ways for others to take action on their website, blog, or mobile device with a variety of web applications built from the Social Actions' API. More ...