OneWebDay bills itself as Earth Day for the Internet because it promotes protection of the Internet’s collaborative, participatory nature, as well as celebration. On September 22, nonprofits can help make the web “just a little better than it was before” simply by taking part: it’s up to you to decide how.

For last year’s inaugural event, physical gatherings took place in several countries, while some of the more innovative projects took place online, including one by a blogger in the Phillipines who collected personal stories on how the internet has changed lives. This year’s event is still in the planning stages – you can keep track of the news on their web site or suggest ideas through their Project Proposal Wiki– but there will be a heavy emphasis on short videos.

So, get your video cameras out, fire up Final Cut or Premiere, upload your work to blip.tv or YouTube, and tag them “onewebday2007” so OneWebDay participants can find out more about what the Web means to you or your organization. Better still, use dotSUB.com, where your creativity can be translated and subtitled in dozens of languages.

Suggested topics include:

• how the web has changed your life;
• how you'd like the web to change the world in the future;
• highlights of what you've seen online the day you make the video;
• your favorite online event ever;
• something you've done online to help people in other countries.

It’s up to you to promote the positive social power of the Internet, as you see fit. If you need inspiration, remember that without the Web, it would be much harder to find cute pictures of baby turtles.