Comments on: How Do you ‘Give Something Back’ with your Blogging?

By: John Weaver

John Weaver — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 18:18:59 +0000

Nice to see you can give back Darren. I love your blog!

By: How do you?™

How do you?™ — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 13:25:13 +0000

Great post darren,

Thanks so much for sharing this, always good to see that people are doing their bit for charity

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:51:32 +0000

I donate half of my meager earnings to either PETA or Mercy For Animals or even other random charities I decide on.

By: Febap Liew

Febap Liew — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 01:10:07 +0000

@Mike Robertson
its very inspiring to read what you have actually done to aid the victims of the earthquake in Haiti.
Its is very thoughtful and selfless.
i also hope that one day too I could perform such. but for now, I am just donating what i can to needed organization =)
keep up the excellent work , mike.
@Mike Robertson
its very inspiring to read what you have actually done to aid the victims of the earthquake in Haiti.
Its is very thoughtful and selfless.
i also hope that one day too I could perform such. but for now, I am just donating what i can to needed organization =)
keep up the excellent work , mike.

By: Febap Liew

Febap Liew — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 01:07:58 +0000

By: Mani Viswanathan

Mani Viswanathan — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:48:36 +0000

Well Blogging & web development has given me respect, made me responsible & I have looked upon to be independent in life by self-employing myself :)

By: Cameron Douglas

Cameron Douglas — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:14:23 +0000

the best blogs will always be people because people get something out of them anyway – education.

By: ashok

ashok — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 20:34:03 +0000

When I first discovered commentluv and the plugin that eliminates nofollow from WP blogs, I immediately installed both. I wanted commentators to get something immediate for commenting, and I think that’s paid off for them and me.

In terms of giving back directly, I do things on the blog and off the blog (but related to the blog). I’m in touch with a number of up-and-coming artists that I want to encourage. I have a small community on another site that features their work and gives them a bit more exposure. Occasionally I link to them via the blog, even though the blog engages wholly different themes and subject matter.

It’s hard for me to sound like I’m generous when I write this comment, but the truth is I’ve done a lot to get attention to people who deserve it. I suspect it’ll be a lot easier to give when the blog takes off. There are a few causes I’m eager to raise money for.

By: Guna Deivendran

Guna Deivendran — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 23:29:25 +0000

When you make money, more money than you or your family can consume, it is important to share it with those that don’t have the means to bring food to the table everyday…

Your article demonstrates it from a blogger perspective and I agree.

I donate to locate charities on a regular basis. Participate in fundraising events to send money to developing countries.

I encourage everyone to look at doing the same. Share it when you have enough for yourself.

By: Georzetta

Georzetta — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 19:15:09 +0000

I do volunteer work at a nonprofit and I can tell you that we are all strapped for money. All of our employees do several jobs.

An afternoon workshop on how to blog or set up a Facebook page or how to use twitter or all three to help nonprofits get their own information out there would be fabulous.

One of the hardest and most expensive jobs we have is public awareness. We cannot serve our communities if people don’t know about us and we often can’t afford the advertising to educate the public.

Our employees are so busy doing their “real” jobs that they don’t have time to learn how to use social networking or the Internet for PR.

By: Drew

Drew — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 13:07:37 +0000

I love the “curriculum” that you’ve developed for learning all about blogging. As far as that goes – it’s been an invaluable resource for me. Keep that up.
As for Africa, I’ve been playing around with the idea of “geo-tagging” blog posts and how that could benefit charities and stuff. Like “this is such and such hospital. Here are the needs. Here’s how you can contribute:” and list contacts and different levels of entry points.
Where in Africa are you hoping to go? Rwanda stole my heart.

By: Rui Soares

Rui Soares — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 08:05:03 +0000

Hi Darren!

I read a post from Seth Godin and I was thinking about the issue of giving something back and I was catching up on my reading and stumbled upon your post on the same issue, but with a different approach. Can I offer a suggestion? It’s Seth’s suggestion…

Will you help Seth change the live of thousand of children?

http://mycharitywater.org/p/campaign?campaign_id=4641

I’m going to promote this campaign on my blog. Please do the same. I haven’t made any donation yet. But I will. I’m considering the amount to donate. The minimum is $50.

Regards

Rui Soares

By: Andrea Mercado

Andrea Mercado — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 04:23:57 +0000

I love the concept of giving back with your blogging. It comes down to being creative in your thinking about how you can make a difference. I am going to put some deep thought into what I can do myself starting today!

By: Mike Robertson

Mike Robertson — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 18:36:30 +0000

This past year after the earthquake in Haiti, I offered all of my online training services for half price. I took all of the proceeds (all in all, over $7,700) and donated it to the Red Cross to help support the rebuilding effort.

It was a lot of hard work for the next 3 months, but totally worth it :)

My goal is to give back in some form or fashion every year. There are so many great causes out there, the hardest part is picking just one.

All the best
Mike

By: Sean - Social Media Marketer

Sean - Social Media Marketer — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:36:37 +0000

In contrast to the quotation I remember(Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.), you are doing things in the right way! Though I don’t want to suggest something here I would say that your will to help the need certainly shows many things!

By: Marc Winitz

Marc Winitz — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:35:15 +0000

Hi Darren,

This is a terrific post and I am glad you are righting about this topic as it is very important to me and the blog I write. And while I respectfully disagree with Renee’s characterization of your tone here I understand her point.

Blogging is a way of giving back and while so much of the activity is focused on making money for many there are much more important uses of the medium.

I recently wrote a post on giving back and would like to share it here. I hope this doesn’t get me banned from Problogger as the content is directly relevant to your post so I hope it adds to the conversation going on here.

http://blackbeltguide.com/2010/06/21/how-giving-improves-ourselves/

By: Kalesh@SE

Kalesh@SE — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:56:49 +0000

Hey Darren,

first of all I liked ur post. Me too like to contribute to improve the world. But so far I have nothing left with me. I will wait for sometime to give some contributions to the world from my part.

I would go for any organisation working on poverty or peace. It is only because that I am from INDIA.

By: Cover letter format

Cover letter format — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:41:45 +0000

Darren, i respect your thoughts. Your willingness to give back is highly appreciated.

By: Febap Liew

Febap Liew — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 06:13:45 +0000

Hey darren,
i haven’t still yet been able to obtain much from my money making online endeavor but I believe that I don’t have to wait until the level I am finally established something to start returning back the favor.
instead, slowly but surely i am sharing everything that i know and have learnt throughout these time. As I grow , so will my information.
I am still unable to provide anything major but I will make sure I do when the time is finally right.
=)
we ought to give thanks to everyone that has eventually supported and helped us.
cheers

By: David: Personal Development Simplified

David: Personal Development Simplified — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 05:53:01 +0000

Raam Dev mentioned above that he spent 3 months traveling in a third world country and it changed his life.

The value of traveling to enhance one’s awareness is incredible.

My wife and I traveled for 13 months with just our backpacks to places like Romania, Pakistan, Middle Eastern Countries… and we volunteered on the way. We traveled with very little cash in hand and had to stop when we ran out.

After my return from the trip one of the things I started doing was sharing / teaching the personal development ideas I had shared on our journey since so many people who I met whether they spoke English or another language where keen to hear what I had to share.

It is very true as one person said above it is not always about giving your money. It is about sharing time, listening to peoples needs, helping others and making a difference using the gifts we each have to share. Then the money we need seems to come. Even if it comes slowly.

Thank you Raam for taking the time to write your note, you inspired me to share something I rarely share. I will go visit you blog now.

David
http://www.TheWonderTechnique.com