Blog Action Day was founded by Collis Ta’eed in the summer of 2007. Along with the support of his wife, brother, father, and team at Envato in Australia, he managed to recruit 20,000 bloggers to all write on the same topic on the same day, October 15, 2007. The topic that first year was the environment and it was a huge fun event. In 2008 the topic was poverty and even more bloggers came out to participate. The third annual Blog Action Day is coming up, and there’s still plenty of time for you to jump on board.

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 Last year, at the b5 One Book Two Book blog, I developed Theme Weeks, concentrating on a different topic with related books, web resources, and activities each week of the summer after school was out.  I plan to do it again this year in my Parenting topics.
 
I shall announce the themes as soon as I get them planned, starting in mid-June, when school is out in my area (New Hampshire) and I’m not substitute teaching any longer.
 If you have interesting, enjoyable, and informative activities you do in those areas, I’d like to have you share them with me and our …read more

Nowadays, most crafters have a  web site, or at least a blog, for their hobby or business. It’s really almost essential that you develop a blog if you’re expanding your hobby into a business.
Some craftspeople start out with a blog, as my daughter has at Meandering Threads and then may develop a web site where they offer items for sale.  Perhaps you simply enjoy sharing your crafting heritage, as I do at Tales of the Trails End Quilters.  Here I relate stories about the quilters in my family.
Blogging gives crafters a place where others can view your work (especially if you use photos) and …read more

For all you b5media fans and readers – b5media will be at Blog World Expo November 7th, 8th and 9th. As a special feature, b5media is going to be hosting some special games during event. The b5media Poker Game! And, if you happen to be a winner at poker, you’ll walk away with some pretty grand prizes such as iphones, wiis, ipods and xbox’s.
Here’s how it’s going to work –
Attendees of BlogWorld Expo can collect b5 chips throughout the conference in several ways:
Be seen wearing a b5media T-shirt – $1000 chip
Answer b5media trivia – $500 chip
Tell us our secret password …read more