On October 15th, more than 2,000 blogs around the world will write about poverty and will participate in Blog Action Day. I encourage everyone to join in. I know I will. - Callie

Blog Action Day is an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post about the same issue on the same day. Our aim is to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion.

Global issues like poverty are extremely complex. There is no simple, clear answer. By asking thousands of different people to give their viewpoints and opinions, Blog Action Day creates an extraordinary lens through which to view these issues. Each blogger brings their own perspective and ideas. Each blogger posts relating to their own blog topic. And each blogger engages their audience differently

Blog Action Day 2008 Poverty from Blog Action Day on Vimeo.

Kudos to Colleen & BuzzNetworker for posting this! Blog Action Day has several resources to assist bloggers through the event as well.

I have posted a new podcast discussing the term “Adult”. What exactly constitutes the term “adult”? How do you define it and what does it encompass?

Have a listen and I welcome feedback, I am going in a new direction and want to address issues related to adult marketing and online strategies. This is test one. Podcast

As an adult webmistress, blogger and generally geek-loving girl, I always pay attention to the debate on what is the best way to optimize the adult sites and what are the best marketing strategies for adult website owners.

One major question is about the use of Flash in web design and SEO. Most adult marketers think that flash can’t be used and it kills SEO. Well, that only a half truth. You can have a site with a flash lay over that is super duper SEO’d.

Making a flash site that is SEO friendly is not difficult - for someone who knows what they are doing. It takes a time and it takes effort. If you want use Flash, you must use JavaScript to progressively load the Flash content for search engines to index the contents of the Flash files; you must separate content from presentation and behavior.

There are many coding languages, but which one is best is is dependent on the site and its purpose. Just because Flash is COOL, doesn’t mean its better.

You have to think about what the goal of site, what is it supposed to communicate? What is message? Does it fit the medium?

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