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AUGUST 20, 2012

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 met Sopharath in 2007 and recorded this interview. This is the first of a three-part post about what I learned about social media, NGOs, and Social Change in Cambodia.

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JANUARY 9, 2007

What are your top three communications goals for 2007? As you look ahead to 2007, please rate these marketing and communications challenges as they relate to your organization. Someday, I hope I can interview Nancy for this blog. And what was your greatest success? s important to them.). ll find the survey here.

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MAY 10, 2009

on Facebook, Network for Good, Global Giving and Parade Magazine in 2007. Razzo by the way has been early pioneer in the online contest, having launched an early contest on Facebook shortly after it opened up to those older than colleges and again in October, 2007. This contest was based on the total amount raised.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2007

I got involved with PledgeBank in April 2007, after a chance meeting with Tom Steinberg, mySociety's founder/director, at a conference on e-campaigning in Oxford, England during the winter of 2006. The pledge was successful, and Dana Wefer is on the ballot for the 2007 election. those might be.

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APRIL 1, 2013

Colleagues Allyson Kapin who founded a web agency called Rad Campaign (they designed my blog) and Amy Sample Ward, who the NTEN Membership Director (and I’ve known since 2007 ) have published a new how to book called “ Social Change Any Time Every Where.”

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I left the classroom in 2007 to join Teach For America staff where I pioneered graduate school recruitment for the organization through May of this year. I taught in the Bronx for two years through Teach For America while working toward my M.A. in General Childhood Education at Bank Street College of Education.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2008

If you know of campaigns and lessons learned that haven't been included, please leave a comment: August 2007 I launched a campaign to raise money and get t-shirts donated for the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. October 2007 This campaign was for $1,000 to send a young Cambodian woman, Leng Sopharath, to college.

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JULY 25, 2017

I was asked to facilitate a small group in a participatory session called “ Digital Forum ,” designed for peer sharing by Marco Kuntz and Mike Johnson. The session kicked off with a Spectragram exercise involving the full group. I learned this technique from Alan Gunn from Aspiration over ten years ago at 2007 Penguin Day.

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MARCH 16, 2007

project 2007 Survey , Via Stephen Downes comes a pointer to a David White's JISC funded ???SPIRE??? project 2007 Survey , a British-based, of 1400 respondents, on the use of Web 2.0 The follow up email interviews to the survey were designed to gain an insight into this issue but are not very comprehensive. technologies.

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AUGUST 19, 2007

August 31, 2007 is the third annual Blog Day. I enjoyed Sopheap's recent post about public education about not littering in Cambodia ) After I get back in September, OneWebDay is next community web event on my calendar scheduled for September 22, 2007. On that day, you write a post recommending 5 blogs to read.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

We started our communities in 2007, more than a year before we started the nonprofit. In a follow up email, I asked him to share his story and describe the benefits and challenges of being a 501-c3 created in the social media cloud. We decided to become a nonprofit in early 2008 and formed the Diabetes Hands Foundation in April 2008.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2009

I remember blogging about it when I first noticed it in November, 2007. In December, 2007, this post from the Chronicle of Philanthropy Blog, expanding on a post by Jeff Brooks, creative director at Merkle Direct, on his Donor Power Blog asked: Do most nonprofit organizations do enough to share key information with the public?

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JANUARY 30, 2010

I've known since 2005 and I realized that the last time I had seen him was in 2007 in Cambodia at the blogging conference and over an interesting dinner served by our hosts. The moderator then interviews people at different points on the spectrum about the opinions they hold.

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APRIL 24, 2007

The role of the Journalist Panel is: These journalists will be given priority access to the teachers and on a permission basis will be allowed to interview students with teachers present. So this sort of my preparation for figuring out who I want to interview or what aspect of the project I want to write about in more depth.

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MAY 13, 2009

Some of you may remember the flap about Ranger Rick from 2007). Heather Mansfield, Facebook Best Practices - Interview. Profiles are optimized for individual communication. Note that their TOS says you can't create for an individual who doesn't exist. If you do, they will delete it. analysis of using Facebook groups).

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JULY 30, 2007

They are organizing the first " Cambodian Blogger Summit (aka Cloggers Summit) " to take place 30-31 August 2007 in Cambodia. Identify and interview 3-5 amazing Cambodian BlogHers and post on BlogHer site. at 14 different universities in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap with more than 1700 students participating.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2007

key themes from focus group interviews: Participants felt a ???common I'm thinking about the interview that I had with Jon Udell. 2007: What does it mean to my business? Some of the. common struggle??? in understanding which tools are critically important to their work. ???I???m As one participant said, ???Money to Web 2.0

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JUNE 22, 2009

The experiment called the Giving Challenge was: A 50 day event from December 2007 through January 2008. When the Case Foundation team launched their Giving Challenge. to test out some ways to encourage more people to use social media tools and online fundraising to give online, they did not know what would emerge.

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JANUARY 26, 2011

Humberto Kam, Senior Manager of Online Communications for the Monterey Bay Aquarium, was kind enough sit down for an interview recently. We launched a mobile site , in 2007 aimed at feature phones, and we’re developing an Android version of the app for release in 2011. Tell me about Seafood Watch. What are the program goals?

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MAY 18, 2007

If you were not lucky enough to get to Australia to attend the Connecting Up 2007 Conference (the nonprofit technology conference for Aussies!), you can catch up with Mike Seyfang's live blogs, twitters, pipe, and more , including this interview with Daniel Ben-Horin from CompuMentor. is still relevant.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

In 2007, 92 people gave up their September birthdays to bring water to a hospital in Kenya. In 2008, even more people joined and raised over $1 million for clean water projects in Ethiopia.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2007

The Nonprofit Software Development Summit Lots of notes and blog posts over at the 2007 Nonprofit Software Development Summit wiki to read. Integration is the hot button topic, as noted by Holly Ross in her " Integration is King " post. There's lots more to digest and lots more to come.

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APRIL 13, 2007

Andy Carvin and Jonnie Goldstein interviewed a person from one of two projects based in Cambodia. is definitely worth checking out - like this interview with Christina Arnold from Project Hope. NTC 2007 Pipe. Ten Tech Proposals Empowering Human Rights, Local Leadership, and Community Education is. Google Blog Search.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Yesterday, I had an opportunity to be interviewed as part of a series of online interviews with nonprofit social media gurus about how to use social media. Kari came to my house a half hour before the interview went live. Ustream also has a feature that lets you put a marker in the video and tweet that section of the interview.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Yesterday, I interviewed Jake Brewer who is the Internet Manager at the Energy Action Coalition about how they use metrics to generate insights about their YouTube Channel. “We In 2007, the Human Society implemented its first photo petition campaign to protest Wendy's treatment of animals. Again, it isn't the numbers in isolation.

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JULY 23, 2009

Here's a great interview that I did with Elana Wolowitz from Wellstone Action on their use of Twitter. Charlene Li has a great graphic on measuring blogging impact from her 2007 report, and I can't say it any better than the Q&A that concludes this blog post that announced the report : Q: Is there a standard ROI for blogs?

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MAY 19, 2008

What if we were to audio and video record interviews with politicians and put them on the web? What if we demanded that a basic low cost connection and computer and training were available to every Aussie who wanted it like the telephone? What if networked better and created stronger communities of practice?

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APRIL 27, 2007

Several of the larger nonprofit organizations we interviewed for this screencast have gone that route. See Six Key Reports in this interview as possible alternative framework with integration of metric definitions and identify pages in book where the how-to is.) Interview with Dave Amos, Idealist. Act 3: Google Analytics That!

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MAY 12, 2009

I decided to do an interview with Scott to learn more about what he is learning about Social Media and Cause-Related Marketing. Twitter found that out in 2007.) I met Scott online over a conversation in the comments when I wrote some reflections about David Armano's personal fundraising campaign back in January. 1) Who are you?

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AUGUST 2, 2012

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. I united my passion for social media and nonprofits, training, fundraising with Cambodia. Leng graduated from college and is married. My children will meet her for the first time.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2011

The Story of Electronics is part of a series of short films created and released by the Story of Stuff project since 2007. Last week at the TechSoup Global Summit , I had an opportunity to meet Annie Leonard and do a quick interview about their lessons learned working as a networked.

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OCTOBER 24, 2009

more like the Berkman Center Thursday evening blogger meetups I used to attend from 2005-2007. OrganicMania or Lynn Miller who I met through Twitter and later interviewed me for this blog post about a year ago. That's rare in a conference setting. It reminded more of a saloon than a conference.

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JULY 6, 2009

For background, in the 3 previous NMC conferences I have been involved with since starting my job there in 2006- we’ve done mainly a “tag this conference” approach where we ask people to tag photos, web sites, blog posts e.g. 2006 , 2007 , 2008 where I cobbled together some summary pages using mainly my own Feed2JS code.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2014

We recently had a delightful email interview about some of the ideas and themes from the book. Jennifer created the Mom Bloggers Club in 2007 and it is hugely successful with over 19,000 members, 15,000 discussions and over 500 groups. Click To Purchase Now. Today is the official launch of Allison Fine’s new book, Matterness.

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APRIL 21, 2010

The Case Foundation's America's Giving Challenge , was one of the first large scale contests launching in 2007 and giving away $500,000 to spur citizen philanthropy and nonprofit adoption of social networking sites.

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MARCH 16, 2007

Second Life Relay for Life for 2007 volunteer blog is gearing up for this year's event, the third one in Second Life. Tobias Schonwetter, discusses the analogy between copyright law and culture in many regions of the world and an interview with Anna Badimo, chairperson of LinuxChix Africa. Change.org now also sports a widget.

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