What’s your second act story?
Besides running the Blogathon, I work as a writer, editor and blogger, and am a regular contributor to SecondAct.com, a news website for people over 40.
Donna Wares, SecondAct’s managing editor, is a big fan of the Blogathon, and has offered me an opportunity to promote the event.
Donna is inviting Blogathon bloggers in their 40s and 50s to share your second act stories – or the second acts you aspire to – in posts on your respective blogs on Wednesday, May 16, and she’ll use some of them in a follow-up story on SecondAct.
Your second act story
Your mid-life second act could be starting a business, going back to school, switching careers, leaving a corporate position for a nonprofit organization, or even starting a blog to share your passion.
Posts don’t have to be about a second act you’ve already accomplished. If you’re in the process of figuring out “What’s next?” write about that. Readers are just as interested in understand the journey to reinvention that other people are taking as they are stories about the result.
Donna and I will look through all the posts and choose some highlights to include in a SecondAct story, along with links back to each blogger’s post, which could result in a nice traffic boost.
What this means for you: if you’ve got an idea for a second act or life reinvention post, write about it on May 16 – consider it a bonus theme day. If the subject isn’t relevant to you or your blog, proceed with whatever you’d planned to write that day.
In case you’re not familiar with it, SecondAct is owned by Entrepreneur Media, publisher of Entrepreneur Magazine and Entrepreneur.com.
Here’s the email Donna sent me to share with all of you:
Michelle,
Congratulations on the launch of the 2012 Blogathon. What an impressive, eclectic group of contributors! Many seem to be blogging as part of a career makeover, which is a subject we explore daily at SecondAct.com.
I’d like to invite your contributors to write posts sharing their own midlife reinvention stories on Wednesday, May 16. Tell the world: What is your second act? Or what do you aspire to do as your second act? SecondAct.com will follow up with a roundup featuring those reinvention stories (along with a link to the original posts).
Thanks so much for all you do to help others stop procrastinating and start writing every day.
Best regards,
Donna
Donna Wares, Managing Editor Online
Entrepreneur Media
Visit: http://www.secondact.
com/ Tweet: @secondact
Mail: dwares@secondact.com
Marijke says
This is a great theme. I’ve already written my post and scheduled it to run that day.
Laura FInger says
I’m about 2 years too young for this. But it is nice to be “too young” for something these days.
Michelle V. Rafter says
Indeed!
MVR