{"id":15015,"date":"2012-10-17T13:42:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T19:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=15015"},"modified":"2012-10-17T13:42:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T19:42:00","slug":"join-us-to-discuss-blog-action-day-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/join-us-to-discuss-blog-action-day-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Join Us to Discuss Blog Action Day &#039;12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/blog-action-day-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15016\" title=\"blog action day logo\" src=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/blog-action-day-logo.jpg\" alt=\"blog action day logo\" width=\"500\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/blog-action-day-logo.jpg 500w, https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/blog-action-day-logo-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By all accounts, this year&#8217;s Blog Action Day, and its theme &#8220;The Power of We,&#8221; were <a href=\"http:\/\/blogactionday.org\/participants\/:\/\/\">huge hits<\/a>: several thousand bloggers from over 100 countries signed up to participate in this annual event. That includes a few Important Media blogs (including sustainablog), so we thought we&#8217;d gather up the folks who did participate, invite other folks from outside the network, and talk about what we wrote at this week&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/b\/105772048264855627134\/events\/c530j9vmfnsb51h2ft6etr0rsmc\">Important Ideas Hangout on Air<\/a>\u00a0on Thursday, October 18, at 3pm Central.<\/p>\n<p>If you wrote a Blog Action Day post this year, join us! Just let me know, and I&#8217;ll make sure you&#8217;re invited to join Becky Striepe and me as we discuss what we wrote here at Important Media.<\/p>\n<p>Won&#8217;t be able to make it? The Important Ideas Hangout always gets recorded to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/jmcstras\">my Youtube channel<\/a>, and I&#8217;m also creating audio podcasts. If you prefer the latter, just subscribe to <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/sustainablog-podcasts\/id570750343\">our iTunes feed<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you participate in this year&#8217;s Blog Action Day? 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