Coming Soon: The Great Blog-Off!
Here at B5Media, we’re gearing up for a charity drive blogger-style. Specifically, on June 20th we’re going to be running a Blog Off. Various members of both the Entertainment and Business channels will be posting one entry per hour for the full 24 hour day. Along with their normal (ahem, I mean, our normal) entertaining and educational fare we’ll also be encouraging you to donate to the The Actor’s Fund, a charity that helps professionals in performing arts & entertainment when they are in need.
Sounds Great, Gray! How Can I Help?
I’m so glad you asked. You can help by either donating a post or donating money. Contrary to popular belief, writing content for blogs is not the glamourous life filled with decadence and luxury you might think. Coming up with a post per hour for 24 hours…that’s going to be a challenge. You can help by sending a short entry (at least two paragraphs) to gray@b5media. If you include any images, please make sure you have complete rights to them – otherwise, if it’s a celeb I can probably find an image to illustrate your article.
But I’m not the only one – these other blogs are also participating, and for every article you help write for the Blog-Off you’ll also be entered into a drawing for $30 cash!
- Gilmore Girls News – Arieanna Schweber (arieanna@b5media.com)
- Daytime Talk- Jeanne Dupuis (jeanne.dupuis@b5media.com)
- Ugly Betty News- Tom Landers(tom.landers@b5media.com)
- 24 Headquarters- Diana Earle (diana.earle@b5media.com)
- New to TV- Cheril Vernon (cheril.vernon@b5media.com)
- Gossip Girl Report- Kelly Phillips Erb (kelly.erb@b5media.com)
- Medium Dreams- Katelyn Thomas (katelyn.thomas@b5media.com)
- Screamstress- Alexandra Dyer (alexandra@b5media.com)
- Disney Society- Julie Bonner (julie.bonner@b5media.com)
- Desperate Blog- Julie Bonner (julie.bonner@b5media.com)
- Dance Watcher- Lynn DeVries (lynn@b5media.com)
- CSI Fanatic- Lynn DeVries (lynn@b5media.com)
- Reality Exploits- Lynn DeVries (lynn@b5media.com)
- VH1 Reality World- Lynn DeVries (lynn@b5media.com)
- House is Right- Lynn DeVries (lynn@b5media.com)
- Searching Bones- Lynn DeVries (lynn@b5media.com)
- Film Gecko- Jane Boursaw (jane.boursaw@b5media.com)
- Comedy Centric – Chandra Williams (chandra.williams@b5media.com)
- Grrl TV - Chandra Williams (chandra.williams@b5media.com)
Or, as I said, money’s good too. You can donate to the Actor’s Fund here. The donations can be as little as $1, or as large as you’d like, but we’d like to think of this as a pledge drive – so, say, $5 per blog post for the blog you’re supporting, or something like that.
My own theme is going to be “Around the World in the Arts”, with a post about the arts in whatever time zone is coming into daytime of June 20th (which is also the solstice) each hour. If you have any suggestions, by all means, let me know!
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You could set up a news feed for each time zone with the keywords of Arts, Dance, etc…and then when the timezone hits look for articles and write a short summary/commentary on it. I’ll be on the look out for ideas and try to submit something before the 20th. Good luck!
$5×24 posts is a bit rich for me, but I can pledge $1 per post for $24.
Hmmm…how do you set up a newsfeed for each time zone? thanks for the donation.