Today, October 15th is Blog Action Day 2008 around the world. According to its organizers:

Blog Action Day is an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post about the same issue on the same day. Our aim is to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion…today bloggers everywhere will publish posts that discuss poverty in some way. By all posting on the same day we aim to change the conversation that day, to raise awareness, start a global discussion and add momentum to an important cause.

As this is a local media blog, I wish to focus my effort for Blog Action Day in spotlighting how the Erie media partners with one organization in eradicating poverty in our town.

For this special event, I connected with a true Erie media professional: Lisa Zompa Nietupski, the Director of Development for the Erie City Mission. Since 1911, created in the wake of meetings by the evangelist Billy Sunday, the City Mission has served the homeless, addicted, and poor of Erie. Since Lisa Nietupski came to the Mission from local television, she has greatly increased the presence of the Mission’s events and brand in the local media. (more…)