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Child Protection is HOT.

Sizzlin’ in fact. Over at the Imaginif Child Protection became Serious Business MyBlogLog community, we are beginning to look like a list of who’s who in people who care about protecting kids. Welcome to the new child safety focused members at the Child Protection MyBlogLog community this week:

Article by Megan Bayliss

 Soul Sistah at Black and Blended

purplefrog at purplefrogcat

Mr Ethanol at Ethanol Business

Zura Beth at Creative Clown

Modified Mummy at Musings of a Modified Mummy

Welcome to each of you. Thanks for joining our child protection community; Imaginif, no child abuse. You have all been stumbled and given the green thumbs up. Take some time to get to know each other. Support the other members of our community and watch the benefits of child protection like mindedness grow.

And the other members of Child Protection community at MyBlogLog? See their Faces of Child Protection at Imaginif’s MyBlogLog Community.

• Child Protection community Blogging Buddy

As a member of our community you are going to be randomly subscribed a blogging buddy. Similar to Secret Santa, you will enact random acts of kindness and increase blog Karma to your community blogging buddy by making that person a part of your blogging day - a message on MyBlogLog, a comment, a link, a stumble - you will find a way to let your community blogging buddy know that someone is thinking of them and is helping to ensure that their commitment to child protection has not gone unnoticed. Wheras Secret Santa lasts for the holiday season, Child Protection Community Blogging Buddy will last for the cyber life span of yourself and blogging buddy. If one buddy stops blogging, no worries, we’ll just do buddy adjustment.

To build community, a two way process of interaction is required from participants (all of us).  To develop a community means to build active and sustainable communities based on social justice and mutual respect (no cyber bullying, hate, racist. sexual harassment or derogatory comments). It is about changing power structures to remove the barriers that prevent people from participating in the issues that affect their lives. Child protection and child safety is faced with many structural and personal barriers. It is time to remove them by supporting those who publicly stand up for the safety of our kids. It is time to make child protection serious business. It is time to have child protection blogging buddies.

Expect a private message in your MyBlogLog where you will be ascribed another community member to watch out for, to encourage and to support. Names will all go into a hat and be drawn as matches. Matches for new members will be made monthly so that brand new members are less likely to guess who they may be matched with.

• Child Protection Book Christmas Sale:

Between now and the 20th of December, 2007, Imaginif is having a two for one book sale. Order a copy of Bitss of Caramel Marmalade on Toast (a children’s chapter book about body ownership - written as junior fiction and filled with Australian animals) through our online protective play shop and receive TWO books in your parcel delivery. Buy one for your own child and get a FREE second copy to give to your child’s school teacher, friend or relative. What a fantastic way to save money and protect children over the Christmas holiday season. Order and pay for just one book and know that you will be sent another copy - no extra to pay for postage either.

• Carnival of Australia

Martin over at Small Office Australia has hosted this weeks excellent Carnival of Australia. If you are an Aussie blogger (no matter where you live in the world) or you blog about things Australian, Aunty Jack wants you.