It’s that time of the year again for blogathon! This year on July 25 I will be blogging every 30 minutes for 24 hours. Topics will be varied but I will try to nail out 48 social media topics in that time which will cover twitter, facebook and youtube tips and tricks I have picked up along the way.

My blogathon charity for 2009 is Canadian Diabetes Association. This organization works in communities across the country to promote the health of Canadians and eliminate diabetes through our strong nationwide network of volunteers, employees, healthcare professionals, researchers, partners and supporters.

How to donate?

Submit your donations online.

Interested in joining the Fraser Valley Blogathon?

View the full details of how to participate here.

After consulting with our lawyer we will be adding the following to our Terms of Service (TOS) effective immediately…

You hereby grant BlueFur an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to (a) use, copy, publish, stream, store, retain, publicly perform or display, transmit, scan, reformat, modify, edit, frame, translate, excerpt, adapt, create derivative works and distribute (through multiple tiers), any User Content you (i) Post on or in connection with the BlueFur Service or the promotion thereof subject only to your privacy settings or (ii) enable a user to Post, including by offering a Share Link on your website and (b) to use your name, likeness and image for any purpose, including commercial or advertising, each of (a) and (b) on or in connection with the BlueFur Service or the promotion thereof.

If you have any questions, comments or feedback post them below or catch me on twitter.

More and more tweetups are happening across Canada. To get the word out and make it easier for fellow twitters to tweetup we have launched Tweetup.ca. This site makes it easy for you to submit your tweetup. Once your tweetup is approved it will be available to both RSS subscribers and the tweetupcanada twitter followers.

It needs a how to plan a tweetup guest post on the site so those who have never planned one can easily set it up. If you wish to guest post that then submit a comment or catch me on twitter.

Any feedback or comments on the tweetup.ca site and design are welcome as well.

Keeping with our one sale a month we are having a 24 hour March Madness sale.

For the next 24 hours you can purchase your first month of hosting for $1.00*

After the first month your hosting rate goes up to our normal low rate of $6.95 a month.

For $1 you get…

• 1000 MB Disk Space
• 50 GB Monthly Transfer Limit
• 30 Day Guarantee
• 99% Uptime Guarantee
• 24/7 Customer Service
• Unmetered Email Accounts
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To get started sign-up today as this sale will be over soon.

*this special is for only new accounts not existing accounts.

When we started our blog 3 years ago who would have thought it was going to grow to be this big?

We currently have 1373 posts on topics ranging from business, technology, gadgets and software. We have 3042 comments from you our loyal readers and community members. The blog has gone from 1 visitor a month to over 1.7 million page views last year and on mark this year for 3 million.

What does this mean for our business?

While others hosts are throwing money into expensive advertising to acquire customers or using high payout affiliate programs, we are using the power of social media to grow our business. We continue to see growth even during a recession which is impressive.

Where do we go from here?

We will continue to create content that fits our communities needs and working on developing our blog to create a stronger community of webmasters.

As we continue to share the love in February we are doing a never seen before 2 For 1 Server Sale.

Between February 16th and 20th, 2009 you can receive the following 2 servers for 1 low price…

Intel Celeron – 2.4 GHz
80 GB Hard Drives
1.5 TB Monthly Transfer Limit
512 MB RAM
5 GB Offsite Backup
100 Mbps Uplink
8 Unique IP’s
Rapid Remote Reboot
WHM/cPanel w/Fantastico
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24/7 Managed Support
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Personalized Name Servers
Shared SSL Server
Canadian Data Center
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The price for 2 of these servers is just $249.95 a month. Note the servers both have cPanel on them and both are fully managed. Interested in this special pricing contact sales today. This special is only for new servers ordered between the dates above.