Blogging service announces $6,000 prize for most talked about charities

20 May 2009

Woman browsing the InternetBlogging service Zemanta has launched a campaign that will see the "most blogged about" charities win $6,000 (£3,880).

Operating the scheme in conjuction with Weber Shandwick's Social Innovation Greenhouse, Zemanta's Blogging For A Cause will award the prize money to charitable organisations that have had the most coverage within its community.

The website is encouraging its bloggers to write about their favourite charity before 6 June so that five can be selected to split the prize money.

In related news, the blogging site was recently awarded second prize in the Change the Web Challenge for its work with Social Actions.

The partnership developed a civic causes aggregator that recommends worthy organisations to bloggers from over 50 online databases while they write.

Social Actions also allows users to search for third sector organisations using tags and keywords such as "climate change", "Darfur" and "healthcare", its website reports.

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