This post is part of Blog Action Day 2008. Today, over 12,000 blogs around the world are calling awareness to the topic of poverty, reaching an estimated audience of over 13 million readers. Join in at blogactionday.org
Blog Action Day 2008: Poverty - Use your Design Skills to Make a Difference
Ever feel like you are in a profession that doesn’t allow you to have a huge impact on some of the most important issues in the world? Designers can make anything beautiful and eye-catching, but what can they do to solve poverty? The answer is A LOT. Don’t be fooled by the doubts. Here are 10 ways designers can tap their creativity to make a BIG difference in world poverty. Now you have no excuse!
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Telephones, especially mobile phones, can be one of the worst time wasters around. Mobile phones are always tied to us: constantly asking us to pick up or text our friends back, and interrupting our work schedule. Even in the rare circumstance that you see the caller ID before picking up and have enough restraint to not talk to John or Crystal while you’re trying to get work done, what happens when you’re like me and use the phone for business? You can’t NOT pick up calls from business clients in case it’s a work emergency or a new job lead. So what happens then?