September 11th - A National Day of Service & Remembrance

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September 11th - A National Day of Service & Remembrance

On September 10th of last year, President Barak Obama amended the Patriot

Day proclamation to officially make 9/11 a

National Day of Service and Remembrance. We can all help to remember

and honor the victims, survivors and heroes of September 11th, 2001 by

encouraging our friends, followers and readers to serve. Let's create an

online movement!

Here are a few ways we can do it:

Using Facebook:

You can spread the word by asking your Facebook friends to get involved and

to add their names to the

growing list of

individuals and organizations pledging to volunteer in observance of 9/11.

Share the link to the official 9/11 National Day of Service web site (

http://911dayofservice.org

You can also lead by example. Invite your

Facebook friends to join you at a volunteer project.

Using Twitter:

The hashtag for 9/11 as A National Day of Service is #911DAY. Spread the

word about the day of service by tweeting about it and sharing the link to

the official 9/11 as A National Day of Service site You can ask your followers

to volunteer - on

their own or with you! Share the details of your volunteer project with

your followers. http://911dayofservice.org

Using A Blog:

If you're a blogger, consider writing a post about 9/11 as a Day of Service.

What you remember most about 9/11/01? What images stand out for you? Why do

you believe in honoring the victims, survivors and heroes through service?

How will you take part in the Day of Service and Remembrance? (Here's a

http://handsonblog.org sample 9/11

blog post)

You might want to include a call to action for your readers, such as:

--> Ask them to pledge to serve via a link to the

http://911dayofservice.org official 9/11 Day of

Service page

--> Or, if you think folks might want to plan their own project, you can

share a link to HandsOn's guide to organizing a service project.

Using YouTube:

Consider creating a video about why you think the 9/11 Day of Service is

important. You could answer the blogging questions above on video, upload it

to You Tube, and share it with your social networks. You can also embed or

share either of these 9/11 Day of Service and Remembrance videos:

http://www.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DLkWPBMLh6kQ

What to Say

Just Another Day

Finally, do something creative - whatever works for you! For example, you

could offer to do something wacky if X number of your friends, fans or

readers pledge to serve. You could challenge your friends - " If 20 people

sign up, I'll... (insert your wacky thing)! " -- Shave your head? --Perform

" All the Single Ladies " on You Tube? Only you can say...

Thanks for using social media for social good, for helping to promote

volunteerism online and for making the September 11th National Day of

Service & Remembrance a success!