For 2002, Cat put together a team to help her build on that success, and get even more people involved. "Creating an international community over the course of 24 hours--one with a single purpose--is something that can only happen on the web. It makes the web magical. I'd love to see it become absolutely huge, though I admit I'm a little intimidated by it as well," she said.
The second annual event saw the inclusion of highlighted charities, a automated backend for the Blogathon site, and even more gimmicks ranging from posting in Haiku, to uploading a retrospective biography via photographs, to writing a novel. The number of bloggers more than doubled, and the event raised over $50,000 charities around the world.
Numbers again doubled in 2003, with over $100,000 raised for charity. 2004 saw a break for the official Blogathon, with Project-Blog taking over for a year. in 2005, staff from previous Blogathons took over, bringing in over $58,000.
This year, in 2007, The Tenderness Trail has been added for donations, represented by Joanna Stoane. Shes volunteering her time in order to raise funds to support this incredibly important project. Representing The Tenderness Tour, she plans to blog for 24 HOURS straight - starting Saturday, July 28,(9am EST). She'll be updating this blog every half hour and you're invited to come along to support her, whether through pledging or by leaving encouragement in the form of comments.
Her hope is to help in raising enough funding to ensure that all, out of the 114 recorded children, currently listed as dying as a result of violence throughout Indiana, will have their place along the Indiana Tenderness Trail currently being constructed.
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I am zoey smiths mother. To this day she has recieved no justice and her death cert reads unknown cause/unknown reason. I applaud you in your fight.....
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