Bloggers Unite Rocks the Blogosphere. Featured on CNN.

On May 15th 2008, tens of thousands of bloggers from BlogCatalog and the blogosphere united for human rights. Thanks to BlogCatalog members this was the largest group of bloggers in history, blogging on a single day, to raise awareness about human rights. The event was even featured on CNN, and several of BlogCatalog member’s blogs were shown on the air. You can view the CNN coverage at http://unite.blogcatalog.com/

Thanks to you, Bloggers Unite has become the primary blog initiative designed to harness expression in support of human rights and other issues that need highlighting. Bloggers Unite is now in a key position to harness and rally energy behind global issues that need awareness.

The next Bloggers Unite initiative will take place on November 10th. To cast your vote on what issue to unite about next, please join in on the discussions at http://www.blogcatalog.com/discuss/entry/decide-the-next-bloggers-unite-initiative

Your New BlogCatalog

It’s been around a week since we launched the new BC design and we hope you are as psyched about the updated designs as we are. Your updated personal profiles now have tabs that make it easy to view your BlogCatalog friends, neighborhoods, groups and social activity.

Your Activity page provides you with a convenient way for others to keep track of the things you are doing on BlogCatalog as well as on Twitter, Digg, StumbleUpon, Flickr, and many other social communities that you may belong to. To add communities to your BlogCatalog Activity page, visit blogcatalog.com/account/communities and select the communities you belong to that you’d like to add.

Twitter for Beginners on Ustream.tv

Twitter, BlogCatalog and other social media tools and communities are changing the way we interact. This coming Monday, social media expert, Erica O’Grady will be featured on on BlogCatalog’s Ustream.tv channel where she will be on camera talking about Twitter for Beginners. If you are using Twitter and aren’t sure of its benefits, or have never used Twittter, then this is the perfect way to learn how to use Twitter in a way to create your personal brand and get more traffic to your blog.

When: Monday, June 16th at 3pm EST

What: The show is FREE. Watch Erica from your computer, and ask questions in an online chat.

Where: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/blogcatalog

The BC team will be there too. Hope you’ll join us on Monday.