I saw a retweet about dblogday going down tomorrow. No biggie, I’m writing a blog post every day this month. By the numbers, the majority of my posts are diabetes related. Sure, I’m no Lee Ann, but I’m doing my part. I’m including a link and quoting the text of the original article. However I do have something else to put in here that I think is worth mentioning.

What do you do on d-blog day? Well, you can write on your blog if you haven’t in a while. Or, you can make a poem, introduce yourself if you have never blogged before, tell us about a new website that you found or get out of the d-closet and start a blog and stop being a lurker!! Basically d-blog is anything you can think of diabetes related.

Just put D-blog Day 2009 or Happy D-Blog day in your subject so we can find you. If you are on twitter the hashtag is #dblogday

Also, add this awesome logo to your blog post (below) that my friend Chris Bishop of The Big D blog designed for us! Thanks Chris

D-Blog Day

-Gina Capone. Diabetes Talkfest

Last week I read a post from Courtney at Ride to Remedy giving a pretty good explanation about why it is unlikely we will ever get our coveted blue circle on a google doodle. Politically speaking, it’s a mine field. It sucks, but the realist in me has come to grips with it. However that isn’t going to stop me from promoting awareness.

Another post I read had a much different tone. What felt like mocking or condescending, said post was questioning the point of the blue circle, of stopping diabetes, of all that we (sometimes) hashtag spam. I can understand a feeling that the cause might be a fruitless endeavor. I personally do not think that is the case, but to each their own. But I would hope that the non-believers would think that all of this is more than wdd09. It’s about Thesis Thursday, it’s about Totally Awkward Tuesday, it’s about bgwed, it’s about Meme Mondays, the Friday Six… You get the point.

Throughout the year that I have been blogging, there have been all kinds of little memes and hashtags for us to retweet. November is the time for us to focus our collective. Now is when we can all get behind one big push for awareness and genuine education of the uninformed. If you don’t believe in what most of us are getting in to, that’s fine. Free country and all that. But I respectfully disagree with your message. These are my friends. This is my family. This is our moment to shine when (hopefully) all eyes are on us.

Get in board or get out of the way.