The Wonderful Web

Check out some of these ideas for Bloggers Unite for AIDS that I discovered while surfing. I will continue to update this post as I find more. Don’t forget to submit your World AIDS blog articles and art to the Blog Carnival.

1. Take a photo of yourself wearing a red ribbon. Any red ribbon–cloth, paper, licorice– be creative! If you don’t have a photo, use one of the web badges (or any other image that includes a red ribbon) as your profile picture.
2. Add the photo to your social network profiles, Twitter, and/or blog in time for World AIDS Day on Dec 1. Leave it up for at least one week.
3. Add your photo to the “World AIDS Day 08″ Flickr group! http://www.flickr.com/groups/wad08. If you tag the photo with your geographic location, together we can make a map and album of supporters around the world.
4. Encourage your friends to do the same with their profile picture
5. Promote HIV testing! To find an HIV testing site near you (in the U.S.), send a text message with your ZIP code to “KNOWIT” (566948) or visit http://www.hivtest.org.
6. Incorporate HIV testing message into your twitter and shout boxes.
7. Incorporate one of the videos from NIDA at http://www.youtube.com/user/NIDANIH into your blog posting to help educate about the relationship between drug and alcohol use and HIV.
8. Participate in Second Life’s World AIDS Day event.
9. If you are in America, you might want to include some national statistics from the CDC.
10. Create a memorial to those that you have loved and lost to this disease.
11. Pay homage to a Day Without Art, by creating a post that memorializes an artist that you admire and succumbed to AIDS
12. Incorporate one of the great videos available into your post. Besides the NIDA ones listed above, there are number of ones from individuals and organizations all over the world available on You Tube.

*Some of these ideas appeared in multiple locations so I can’t always attribute an idea to certain organization or individual. Some of my references include:

http://blog.aids.gov/2008/11/facing-aids-for.html

http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/2697220/35918580

http://imoralist.blogspot.com/2008/11/whatever-happened-to-day-without-art.html

http://www.worldaidscampaign.org/en/Tools/Campaign-tools