Dip your toe in the Blogathon pool?
Category: Blogathon...
Posted Wednesday, May 24, 2006 at 08:26 AM [GMT-6]

Blogathon 2006 is the last Saturday in July. I'm still planning to participate, although the details haven't all been worked out. In the meantime, if you've got some interest in the event but aren't ready to dive in as a 24-hour poster, you should consider volunteering to help as a monitor. Here's the call for help from the event organizer:

Sheana here, just emailing to let everyone know that we still need (many!) volunteers for the 'thon this year. Specifically, we're recruiting folks to be monitors - your job would be to check the sites in your queue and to root them on throughout the 'thon. Cat has returned to head up the 'thon and Rob Drimmie is back programming, and thanks to the new backend and registration process they're working up, the whole system is much more streamlined and will make the monitoring process easier and - hopefully - more fun.

If anyone is interested, drop me a line and I'll get you more info and/or add you to the monitors list. And don't forget to come say hi in the forum!

The essence of the job is to (1) make sure that the bloggers assigned to you are meeting their commitment of posting at least every 30 minutes, and (2) offering encouragement and support to them throughout the event. It's a very helpful role and one that sounds like a lot of fun, without the pressure of having to actually do the 'thon. Plus, you and the other monitors get to select some participants for awards after the event.

There is some potential downside. Some of the blogathon sites support causes that you might not personally find acceptable, and some use some, well, edgy content to generate pledges (apparently under the "ends justify the means" philosophy). I don't know how much flexibility the event organizers will grant if you're assigned a site that you find offensive.

But, the biggest risk is that you might have to monitor the Gazette!

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