Blogging has been very good to me.
Over almost nine years, it’s been a daily blessing in more ways that I can count:
- new friends
- new skills
- new knowledge
- the opportunity to travel
- the ability to pay off a mortgage
- business partnerships
- the chance to do what I love (communicate and build communities) all day, every day—and get paid for it!
Blogging has been very good to me.
Can blogging be used to help others?
However I’ve always wanted blogging to be more than just good to me. I want it to benefit others, too.
The most obvious people I want it to benefit are those who read the blogs I publish. This is why pretty much everything I do has a “how to” or “advice” spin on it.
One of the most exciting things that happens to me each day is being thanked for achieving that goal—helping people improve in some area of their life.
However, I’ve always wanted blogging to be even more than that. Over the last few years, I’ve often found myself wondering how it could be used to make the world a better place in some bigger way.
With the opportunity to communicate to over 4 million people a month, surely I can find a way to do that.
The Tanzanian experiment
Next Thursday I’m going to experiment with doing just that—and I’d love you to join me.
On 25 February, I’m jumping on a plane (well, a series of them) for Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, East Africa.
I’ll be in the country for one week, to spend time observing—and reporting back to my social network on—an amazing project called Comprehensive Community Based Rehabilitation in Tanzania (CCBRT). It’s a project of CBM, an international disability and development organization.
The trip is being organized by CBM Australia (you can read more about it here)...
