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Raise Your Hand for Girls on October 11, 2012

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I raised money through my blog and later on Twitter to help send her to college from 2006-2010 through the Sharing Foundation’s program. Although we had been trading letters for two years , I met Sopharath face-to-face in 2007 and recorded this interview. The photo above is Leng Sopharath.

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Day 12: Let’s Help Send Some Cambodian Kids To College – #12days of giving

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She graduated in 2010. I was lucky enough to meet Leng Sopharath when I traveled to Cambodia in 2007. Her education was interrupted by a serious medical problem, but she recovered. Sponsoring her education was more than the money, sponsors and students also write letters to one another for support.

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Have Online Social Networks Become Boring?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When I first got started with social media training (2004-2007), I often rain into a lot of raised eyebrows, crossed arms, and skeptics suggesting that “Social media is a fad.” Over the past 5 years, network capacity building has become much more commonplace, although it is not yet mainstream.

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Cambodia: Social Media, NGOs, and Social Change: Part 1

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My last visit to Cambodia was in 2007 and I remember how frustratingly slow the wifi felt compared to high speed access I enjoyed in the US. I raised money through my blog and later on Twitter to help send her to college from 2006-2010 through the Sharing Foundation’s program. She graduated from college and is married.

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Using Social Media to Share Research

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By Patricia Martin, 2010. Patricia Martin is an independent researcher and author of the book Renaissance Generation: The Rise of the Cultural Consumer and What it Means to Your Business , F + W Publishing, 2007. If you’d like to discuss it, chip in over at Facebook , or via Twitter using the hashtag #tiptheculture.

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Virtual Platforms for Good: Empowering Individuals

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although the time frame is closer to 5 or 6 years from now (and I think it was Gartner who said that by 2010 or 2011 pretty much everyone is going to have a "Second Life" in a 3D Virtual World -I wrote about it in More people leading 3D virtual lives online ) due to hardware and platform restrictions that prevent a wider adoption now. .

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A Homecoming Trip To Cambodia

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I raised money through my blog and later on Twitter to send a young women, Leng Sopharoth to college from 2006-2010. I met Leng in 2007 and recorded this interview. In 2007, I won the Yahoo for Good Contest, winning $50,000 for the Sharing Foundation. Leng graduated from college and is married.

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