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Age of Conversation 3 Joins Blog Action Day to Highlight Global Need for Clean Water

October 15th 2010 01:00

Blog Action Day Coincides with Ongoing Age of Conversation 3 Effort

October 15th is Blog Action Day â€“ a day when bloggers all over the world join together to talk about the critical need for safe, clean water around the globe. And each of the bloggers who contributed a chapter to Age of Conversation 3 (among them, yours truly) is doubly excited about the effort to point the spotlight on this need. Why is that? Let me explain.

What Does Age of Conversation 3 Have to Do with Blog Action Day?

Everything! Age of Conversation is an annual collaborative book project specifically designed to raise funds for charity. Since the first book was published in 2008, the Age of Conversation books have raised tens of thousands of dollars for charity. In 2008 and 2009, Age of Conversation and Age of Conversation 2 raised $15,000 and $10,000, respectively, for Variety Children's Charity. What does that have to do with water? Glad you asked!

This Year's AOC 3 Charity is charity: water

In 2010, all funds raised through the sale of Age of Conversation 3 have been earmarked for donation to charity: water, an organization that's already doing incredible work implementing over 2,900 different water- and sanitation-related projects in numerous parts of the developing world. Charity: water uses 100% of all public donations to directly fund water projects. How can they do this? A group of private donors covers the charity's other expenses.

AOC 3 Authors Are Happy to Help charity: water and Blog Action Day

I'm sure I speak for all AOC 3 authors when I say that I'm honored to be involved in raising funds for this fine charity that is making such a difference in the lives of so many people. (Please note that no AOC 3 author and no AOC 3 editor receives a penny for our contributions to the book. All proceeds raised, after printing costs are covered, go directly to charity: water.) All AOC 3 authors welcome the opportunity to join together with Change.org in pointing to the worldwide need for clean water on Blog Action Day 2010.

Help Fund Clean Water Projects: Buy a Copy of Age of Conversation 3

One way you can help provide clean water for people around the world is by purchasing a copy of Age of Conversation 3 at one of the Amazon.com links below. While every purchase will help, no matter when it's made, if you make your purchase on Blog Action Day, along with everyone else who responds today, you'll help push AOC 3 up higher in Amazon's rankings, making it more visible to Amazon visitors, which will encourage even more people to purchase it and raise even more funds for charity: water. For more information about the Amazon.com Bum Rush, visit this post on the Age of Conversation 3 blog.

Here are the links to make your AOC 3 purchase(s):

AOC 3 Paperback Edition

AOC 3 Hardcover Edition

AOC 3 Kindle Edition

A Few Other Things You Can Do to Help

â€¢ Write a post about Blog Action Day. (Be sure to register at Change.org first.)

â€¢ Tell your friends and readers to buy AOC 3 and help charity: water. (Tell them to buy each copy separately, since Amazon counts each purchase only once -- even if they buy multiple copies.)

â€¢ Visit the Blog Action Day web page for other ideas.

Let's see how much money we can help raise for charity: water and other great charities that are working so hard to make a difference!

Thanks for doing your part to help!
Jeanne

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Bloggers: Gear Up for Blog Action Day 2010

October 13th 2010 17:13

Calling All Bloggers

October 15th is Blog Action Day, and this year's theme is a critical one: Water. So many people in our world lack access to safe, clean drinking water that this topic is a timely one to highlight this Blog Action Day.

Most of us turn on the tap and take it for granted that the water that comes out will be safe to drink. And if we don't prefer tap water for one reason or another, we have easy access to an endless variety of bottled waters. But, in many countries, drinking water is a serious health issue, with contaminated water causing serious illness and even death in large numbers of people. Many organizations are working to turn this around, and Blog Action Day 2010 is the perfect time to highlight their efforts.

Please check out the following Blog Action Day video and consider joining other bloggers all over the world on October 15th in publicizing the serious need for clean drinking water in every country of the world.

Blog Action Day 2010: Water from Blog Action Day on Vimeo.

Let's make a difference!
Jeanne

Please visit my post, Age of Conversation 3 Joins Blog Action Day to Highlight Global Need for Clean Water, and find out how you can help fund clean water projects by purchasing a fascinating book that can help spark your business success.

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International Freelancers Day Videos Available Free Online through October

October 1st 2010 04:28

Conference Videos Available Free Online

Watch First Three Without Registering

If you weren't able to attend the International Freelancers Day Conference online last weekend, I have great news for you: You can still view the high-quality conference video presentations online completely free through October 31st. By visiting the following link, you'll be able to view three of the videos without even having to register: IFD Introductory Videos.

The introductory videos include the following:

Facebook Marketing Success Secrets for Solo Professionals, presented by the Queen of Facebook, Mari Smith

How to Trigger The Big 5 Subsconscious Buy-Buttons Without Feeling Like A Slick Idiot, presented by Jonathan Fields

How To Build Your Business By Creating Your Own Smarter, Faster, Cheaper Web TV Show, presented by David Siteman Garland

Register Free to Access All 24 Presentations

These three videos are but a small taste of the 24 incredibly informative sessions presented during the two-day conference, and once you've seen them, I'm sure you'll want to check out the other 21.You will, in fact, be able to view the rest (and even watch the first three again if you'd like) completely free by simply completing your free registration on the International Freelancers Day website where you watched the first three.

To give you an idea of the wealth of information in store in the other videos, the titles of all remaining videos are posted to the page on which you view the first three. You're sure to find many intriguing topics on that list, so why not stop by the site at the above link and take a look at it. I'm sure that once you read those titles, you'll realize how much value they can potentially add to your freelance business.

Videos Available Free for a Limited Time

Since these videos will only be available through October, and there are 24 of them, each containing a ton of valuable information, I'd like to encourage you not to wait too long to take advantage of the opportunity to access them. If you're serious about freelancing, you'll probably want to take notes as you watch -- particularly since you won't be able to refer back to them after the end of October. You may even decide to watch some of them more than once while you can. Each of these videos presents helpful strategies for freelance success, as well as links to numerous resources that can help make life easier for you as you run your freelance business.

If, like me, you realize you need all the help you can get to succeed as a freelancer, hurry over to the International Freelancers Day website, via the link in the first paragraph of this post, and take advantage of this great opportunity to learn all about freelancing from the experts -- completely free of charge.

It's a deal that's tough to beat!

To your freelance success,
Jeanne

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