PSA

I joined this site back in October 2006, at the start of the Fall 2006 Blogging for Progress Scholarship Competition. I joined for many of the same reasons you all did, to try to get some money for school expenses. I didn't win that competition, and I dropped out of the next to join the staff of the site about two months before the end of the competition.  Read More »

As some of you may have noticed, some of our members now have a little bar on their content that asks you for a tip. After spending the last week or two testing it out to ensure that all is in working order, we're pleased to finally announce that anyone interested may sign up and use the tipjar on their own content!  Read More »

The LEAGUE, a school and web-based system for service learning, is at it again! From now until January 21st, the LEAGUE is encouraging young people to get involved and do good in their communities with their King Day initiative.  Read More »

I have been volunteering on ProgressiveU for about a year and a half now, and have been a member well over 2 years. I started in the competition just like the rest of you, but stayed due to the great ideas I found here. I've made some wonderful friends over the past couple years on the site, many of whom I would like to remain friends with for life.  Read More »

Okay so as I wrote yesterday, I was looking for ideas and approvals on writing topics. So the one that I ask for approval was the number of mothers that die while giving births. I recently read an article in Time magazine about this, that one in 8 have a chance of dying in Sierra Leone and Afghanistan, as opposed to the US where 1 in 4,800.

In the UK 1 in 8,200.

And in Sweden 17,400.  Read More »

It's recently come to my attention that most of you haven't yet found all of the nifty ProgressiveU features. So... welcome to the Nifty ProgressiveU Feature blog. I promise to keep it quick and painless.  Read More »

Every contest, there are several hundred new members and participants.
Now, the moderators could continually list things like the FAQ and the TOS in blog after blog to help acquaint each of you with these various things; but what better way to help you find them than to give you points for looking them up on your own?  Read More »

In a few hours the Fall Blogging for Contest Competition will begin. For those that have been here in previous contests, you know that means it's time for the official start of the contest tips from Fallon. For those of you that are new, consider this your survival guide to the contest.

First off, let's cover the basics of participation.

Registration  Read More »