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October 10, 2007

Welcome to Blogging Your Dreams

At Washington Post Newsweek Interactive, the advertising team came up with a crazy idea: what if we took a portion of advertising dollars and used it to help make someone’s dream come true? Well… we decided to try it.

The concept is simple.

Over the course of the next 3 months, we will be accepting dream submissions and posting some of those dreams to BloggingYourDreams.com, hopefully sparking some interesting conversations.

We’ll pick a dreamer and give them the resources to go for it. The only thing we ask in return is for the chosen dreamer to blog the whole experience on BloogingYourDreams.com from start to finish so that the world can cheer them on, share advice and learn from their journey. Comments, of course, will be welcome.

So how do you get started? Well first, click here and send us a dream you have always wanted to achieve. Second, check back often and join in the experience.

And of course if you have any questions, just drop us a line. We would love to hear form you.

October 23, 2007

Our first dreams

Good afternoon dreamers -

Thank you to all who have submitted. For those who have not, we would love to hear from you.

Here are a few we recently received that we would like to share.....

Jane from New Jersey would like nothing more than to learn how to play the accordion. Her father is turning 70 years old and the accordion is his favorite instrument; Jane would love nothing more than to play him a song.

Charlene from Virginia dreams of graduating from college with a bachelor's degree in business management. She has had to postpone school due to the pressures of life and is only 30 semester credits from fulfilling a life long dream of being the first in her family to graduate from college.

Keep the dreams coming.

October 30, 2007

Sharing your dreams

Good afternoon dreamers -

We just wanted to take a second and thank everyone who has been willing to share your dreams with us. We are excited about what we have seen so far and cannot wait to see more.

Don't forget to spread the word to your friends, family, loved ones and neighbors. And of course grab the RSS feed and follow along.

Here are a few more dreams we recently received that we would like to share.....

Gwendolyn from Upper Marlboro, Maryland dreams of helping her daughter expand her daycare business.

Erica of Sacarmento, California dreams of one day publishing her first book.

John from Woodbridge, Virginia dreams of retiring, buying a boat and follow the sun where it takes him. To figure out where he is. He plans on using the butter method --- if it is to hard, it is to cool and if it is to soft, it is to warm.

Tanika of Washington, D.C. dreams of building a transitional institute for people who are homeless and less fortunate. Here institution will be comprised of individual rooms with private bathrooms, an educational center with a large computer lab, job resource center, a large cafeteria, daycare and laundry facilities.

To all the dreamers out there. Don't wait, drop us a line today.

And to those dreams who have submitted, pass the word along.

October 2007

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