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 – 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
• Write a post about Blog Action Day. (Be sure to register at Change.org first.)
• 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.)
• 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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Comment by Lillie Ammann
I just ordered by book through Karen Swim's blog—her blog is before yours in my reader!
Thanks for participating in this great cause.
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Comment by Jeanne Dininni
Writer's Notes
Glad to hear you purchased the book through Karen's blog. Charity: water is certainly a good cause and one I'm proud to support through my writing.
Thanks for helping us in this important effort -- and stopping by to comment!
Jeanne
Comment by Jeanne Dininni
Writer's Notes
Glad to be able to highlight this critical need and offer a few ways people can help out.
Thanks for the visit!
Jeanne