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Christian Kreutz, Web 2.0 for Development Blogger, is in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam Now. Cambodian Education System Changes To OpenSource Software!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Through following his twitter stream, I discovered he's on the ground now in Southeast Asia and is coming to Cambodia. to places without high speed Internet access like Cambodia ?" (He did some terrific reporting from the Web2.0 Development Conference in Rome last September). Ping him over at his blog.

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Help My Pal Beth Win $50,000 for Cambodian Orphans

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My friend Beth Kanter, of Beth's Blog , is working hard to win $50,000 for the Sharing Foundation by January 31, 2008 as part of the Case Foundation's America's Giving Challenge. The Sharing Foundation's mission is to help meet the physical, emotional, educational and medical needs of orphaned and seriously disadvantaged children in Cambodia.

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Nedspace Co-Working Space in Portland, Oregan will send three Cambodians to college if.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I have used social media to help raise the money for her tuition through the Sharing Foundation in 2007 and 2008. Cambodia brought me my two beautiful children and I felt strongly that we should give back to the country in some way. My motivation was a simple act of reciprocity (not what you might read in some of these comments ).

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More thoughts about Web 2.0 Adoption by Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

where we talked a lot about the job of educating people about the possibilities of new technologies like Web 2.0 My thoughts are still half-way around the world in Cambodia and, in the US, we don't have the added challenge of a slow Internet connection. In Cambodia, NGO staffers were eager to learn about Web 2.0 to Web 2.0

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NpTech Roundup: Grasshoppers and Ants - Social Fundraising Off Season

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I suspect that the good folks at SeaChange are busy updated the 2008 the Procrastinators Guide To Year-End Fundraising. There are 15 projects in the competition, all with a mission of ending traffiking and slavery, including an entrant from Cambodia. More coverage in the blogosphere and beyond here. Hurry voting ends August 5th.

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It Takes A Whole Village: Ten Dollars, Ten Minutes, Help The Sharing Foundation Change the Lives of Over 1,500 in Cambodia!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He tells why the Sharing Foundation's work, particularly its education work, is important: Inspiring from article Cambodia facing uneducated future written by BBC News, I decided to make a change in this new year 2008 by donating some money to help The Sharing Foundation win the $50.000 from America's Giving Challenge.

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$10 Will Help Cambodian Youngster Mon Channy Get An Education and Live a Better Life!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Both Bora and Nhuong, young people from Cambodia, who are donors to Sharing Foundation, know this story all too well: As Bora says, "I don't know what I can do as a single Cambodian citizen to help next generation of my country. vuthbora.blogspot.com/2008/01/new-year-welcoming-donation. This is why this cause is important to me.