Blogathon gets underway
Howard Lake | 5 August 2005 | News
Blogathon 2005 is happening now, with bloggers updating their websites over 30 minutes for a 24 hour period and collecting sponsors or pledges to donate to charity.
A Blogathon is a marathon blog session in aid of charity. Participants have to commit to update their site every 30 minutes for a day, and raise at least $5 before getting underway.
The first Blogathon was held on 28 July 2001 and raised $20,099, twice its target. A year later 212 Blogathon participants raised $58,446 for charities, and in 2003 401 bloggers raised $102,534. The organiser took a year off in 2004, but the event is back again this year.
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About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.