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Meet Beth Kanter and I at BlogHer and Making Media Connections

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For the past two days I've gotten to spend time at the NetSquared Conference with my Co-Editor of BlogHer's Social Change, Nonprofit and NGO section, and fellow NetSquared blogger , Beth Kanter of Beth's Blog. I'll be teaching a "Nonprofit Blogging 101," and a "Nonprofit Podcasting 101" session. blogging conference Beth Kanter

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How Are Your 2008 Activist Resolutions Going?

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We're half way through 2008, so I thought I'd share how mine are going, and check in on yours. Challenge for the rest of 2008: I'm feeling a bit discouraged about what feels like a lack of progress in the situation. Challenge for rest of 2008: I only have 6 more interviews for 2008. My resolutions were to: 1.

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Giving When You're Unemployed: It Could Make You Happier and Wealthier

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A September 2007 Ode magazine article, Giving Makes Us Happy , describes a 60-year study by Paul Wink of Wellesley College that followed the lives of about 200 people. One of the findings was that many of the people who said they were happy had, "generativity--the ability to give to others." There are so many ways to give.

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Join the 29-Day Giving Challenge: Change Lives One Gift at a Time

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Visit 29-Day Giving Challenge. On March 19th, 2008, after spending 8 days in the hospital related to her multiple sclerosis, Cami Walker decided to give away one thing each day for 29 days : "I decided to do the 29-Day Giving Challenge as an experiment. It sounds like she might want to create a book out of it.

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Britt Bravo and I will be at Making Media Connections in Chicago June 11-12th

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For the past three years, I've had the pleasure of working closely with Britt Bravo at BlogHer and Netsquared. June 11-12th we will both be speaking at the 2008 Making Media Connections Conference. We rarely get any face time. So, it was a welcomed an opportunity to see Britt again earlier this week. in Chicago.

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29-Day Giving Challenge: An Interview with Cami Walker

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-Cami Walker, Founder, 29 Day Giving Challenge The 29 Day Giving Challenge is a global giving movement where participants give away one thing each day for 29 days. I wrote about my experience with the Giving Challenge last spring in the post, 29 Day Giving Challenge Takeaway: Compassion is Hardest to Give.

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Blog Action Day: 4 Ways to Alleviate Poverty in Your Community

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Giving to international campaigns is important, don't get me wrong, but I think we can all be seduced into feeling good about ourselves when we write a check to help someone in a faraway land, but forget that there is poverty in our own backyards that we don't always want to look at. Start a Giving Circle to fund local organizations.

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