# Bloggers promote giving to emergency appeal

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2004/12/31/bloggers-promote-giving-emergency-appeal/
- Published: 2004-12-31T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Bloggers have played an important part in promoting the different ways of giving
to the Asian floods emergency appeals and in linking people to information on the
disaster such as lists of missing people.**

Bloggers, or online citizen journalists, have reacted quickly and effectively to
share practical information about the relief effort and ways to donate to the south
Asian disaster funds.

One of the most comprehensive and respected is The South-East Asia Earthquake and
Tsunami, or SEA-EAT for short, which has published dozens of appeals for funding
from organisations large and small. It was set up after the disaster of 26 December
to provide and share “news and information about resources, aid, donations and volunteer
efforts”.

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It is a remarkable example of individual and collaborative initiative online. Its
volunteer contributors are also producing a Wiki or database on all aspects of the
disaster, to form part of Wikipedia, the open source/free encyclopedia.

Appropriately enough bloggers have just been named TIME magazine’s People Of The
Year.

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