Wonderland or Not

To demons­trate the power of blog­ging, Zemanta, a blog­ging add-on that recom­mends blogger-friendly con­tent as you write, will donate its $3000 in prize money to the cha­ri­ta­ble cau­ses that the blog­ging com­mu­nity loves the most. Social Inno­va­tion Greenhouse / Weber Shand­wick has added another $3,000. They Need You to Blog About Your Favo­rite Causes.

I’m pos­ting this because it is surely the way of things to come. Not to dis­re­gard the fact that the money could end up at an extre­mely inef­fi­cient non-profit, and the posts could cer­tainly be more self ser­ving than not, this is an inte­res­ting con­cept, one that we have already seen and will be sure to see more of as time goes on. Blog­ging for money for something you care about is cer­tainly a heck of a lot easier than blog­ging for no other rea­son than to be lin­ked to a thou­sands other blog­gers. At least theoretically.

This is how Zemanta’s works. You post the follo­wing in your cause post, along with a little graphic. The non-profits that have the most posts, the top 5 I believe, receive the money.

This blog post is part of Zemanta’s “Blog­ging For a Cause” cam­paign to raise awa­re­ness and funds for worthy cau­ses that blog­gers care about.

How Your Voice Can Make a Difference

1. Blog about your favo­rite non-profit and why their work makes a dif­fe­rence.
2. Paste this text and link to the end of your post. Without this text and link, we will be una­ble to track and cre­dit your cha­ri­ta­ble cause as part of this campaign:

This blog post is part of Zemanta’s “Blog­ging For a Cause” cam­paign to raise awa­re­ness and funds for worthy cau­ses that blog­gers care about.

Thought I’d put it out there.

A com­ment off FYI production.