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Last Friday, Chris Garrett asked what you are doing for Blog Action Day 2008 - Poverty. If every blogger involved in the annual October 15 event would have left a comment at Chris's post, there would be well over 10,000 of them. And yet, if every person living in poverty were to comment, there would be more than 3 BILLION comments. Can you fathom it? I am grateful to be an assistant event coordinator for Blog Action Day this year. It has broken my spirit several times over to consider the magnitiude and subject matter of the effort. Already, Blog Action Day 2008 has been graced by many bloggers who do grasp the global problem of poverty, at least to some extent (for who can really plumb its depths?): Brian Clark at Copyblogger - Brian is donating $25 to Save the Children for every pledge of $10 or more made at his Blog Action Day post. Sokwanele at This is Zimbabwe - The author shares concerns about ongoing poverty among family members in Zimbabwe. Darren Rowse at Problogger - Darren

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Do you suffer from "lurker syndrome"? Where you would like to participate but just can't? I talk to bloggers a lot in private, for fun, and professionally with coaching clients and my Authority blogger Course members. One of the issues that comes up repeatedly is fear of putting yourself "out there". Symptoms manifest in many ways, for example course members being shy about joining my private forum, and also with things like Blog Action Day, not wanting to post about potentially controversial topics. In these calls I try to work out what the underlying issues are. We tend to find the causes are: Shyness - I find that actually getting out and connecting with people helps cure shyness. When I was a teenager I was too shy to even order a Big Mac, now I find myself facing auditoriums of strangers! Fear of backlash - This is an all too common problem, especially if your work finds its way onto Digg or YouTube, but the main solution to this is to either A) only communicate what you truly st

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Click here to receive your FREE subscription to > '' Calls for Discussion of Poverty '' Calls for Discussion of Poverty 10/15/2008 By Dian Schaffhauser The second annual takes place today, bringing together 8,000-plus blog, podcast, and videocast