Coturnix at A Blog Around the Clock alerted me that today is the third annual Blog Day, which âwas created with the belief that bloggers should have one day dedicated to getting to know other bloggers from other countries and areas of interest.â To participate, bloggers link to five new blogs â and Iâm going to interpret ânewâ as meaning âa blog I discovered fairly recently and suspect most readers donât know about yet.â So, here are my five blog links for Blog Day 2007:
- The Nata village blog provides an up-close view of the battle to control the spread of HIV/AIDS in one village in Botswana.
- Epidemix covers âtrends, technologies and other contagions in medicine and healthâ (via Technology, Health & Development).
- The Neighborhood Toxicologist reports on chemical contaminants that affect our daily lives.
- FarmPolicy.com gathers all the U.S. farm policy info in one place (via Gristmill, which will tell you why you should care about farm policy).
- Peter Suber, Open Access News champions the movement to make peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature freely available (via Coturnix, who is collecting blogospheric reactions to the PR offensive some major publishers are mounting against open access).
Use the Technorati tag BlogDay2007 to identify a Blog Day post or find others. Happy Blog Day!
Glad to see you’re getting involved with this. I think it’s a very cool concept!
We dedicated several posts to the initiative, and folks are leaving their post URLs in our comments area.
Check-it-out if you get a chance: http://posties.payperpost.com/blog/2007/08/its-the-third-a.html
Happy Blog Day 2007! Please stop by my Blog Day post and leave your link!
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Workplace Bullying – The Silent Epidemic
UTICA, NY â Half of all working Americans (49%) have suffered or witnessed workplace bullying, according to a new Workplace Bullying Institute/Zogby Interactive survey. 37% have experienced it themselves.
The survey defined Workplace Bullying as a combination of work sabotage, verbal abuse, threatening conduct, intimidation and humiliation.
“It’s clearly a ‘silent epidemic,” claims Dr. Gary Namie, Director of the Workplace Bullying Institute in Bellingham, Washington. Stress from prolonged exposure to bullying (33% suffer for more than one year) adversely affects psychological and physical health of 45% of targets.
When bullies are women, they choose other women as prey (71% of cases). Bullying, or status-blind harassment, is four (4) times more prevalent than civil rights violations (status-based harassment). Gary Namie said, âIt was legal when we started the movement in â98 and it is still todayâ.
In 62% of cases, the employers did nothing or made matters worse. 77% of Targets had to lose their jobs in order for the bullying to stop. Lawmakers across the country are considering the Healthy Workplace Bill, which would make the behavior illegal for their state.
Full results online at: http://www.bullyinginstitute.org. or contact Dr. Gary Namie, WBI – 360-656-6630.