Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2007

At Logan Airport loaded up with swag Found a plug and wifi at LAX My husband and kids dropped me off at Logan Airport a couple of hours before my flight to LA to connect to my flight to Phnom Penh via Singapore to attend the Cambodia Bloggers Summit. I flew American Airlines and the terminal was a zoo. I waited in line 2.5 Writer's block?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2007

In a couple of days, video bloggers Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson will be in Cambodia doing some work with Project Hope International to help them document the work they're doing to rehabilitate people involved in human trafficking. I met Christina Arnold who told me about her NGO and their work in Cambodia. Click To Play.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2016

Note from Beth: I’ve just returned from an amazing training project in Cambodia and will be sharing more about that this coming week. Key to all these approaches is ensuring respondents have accessible ways to provide input that promote as much candor as possible. Photo by LIFT.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2009

For Twitter to be at its peak in utility, people who would have never had access to the world's information need to be able to not only receive it but engage with it, too. Room to Read , a San Francisco based non-profit, will help us make that happen by bringing libraries and literacy to the world's poorest regions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2005

Using the Internet for access to experts, other student helpers, and cultural ambassadors. Creating and designing Web sites to publish student work. Using desktop videoconferencing. I have a lot more reading and digesting to do, but for starters I wonder what the difference is between a Culturequest and Webquest ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2008

and video blogging workshops in Cambodia. Mean Lux emailed to let me know that they had taken the cameras up to a Youth Festival and Training in a remote corner of Cambodia called Pursat! Photo by MeanLux. Last August, I was invited organizers of the Cambodian Bloggers Summit to give a keynote and teach Web2.0 Videos to come shortly!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

Starting to get reports of podcasts, videos blogs, and photo blogs from Cambodia. Norbert is a long-time ex-pat and perhaps the first person to bring Internet access to Cambodia via a Unix to DOS program and using a dial up modem. Norbert Klein has started a photoblog - I love the photo of family on the motorbike.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

Click To Play Note: I am now home with fast Internet access and extreme jet lag. August 31st: Cambodia Bloggers Awards Ceremony. I figured it would have a better life in Cambodia since there was a presentation about podcasting. Here is what he wrote: I want a digital camera for helping attract more tourism for Cambodia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

You are making Cambodia more visible on Google and you are portraying Cambodia from a local???s Bloggers in Cambodia can connect with their relatives who live in the USA and other countries. Are you trying to reach the 1 or 2% of Cambodians who speak English or all Cambodians who can access a computer? s perspective.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2007

Many people in Cambodia are afraid to express their ideas about human rights and other issues. How come there are not so many BlogHers in Cambodia? There are women blogging in Cambodia. Of course, there is problem with Internet access. Not many women like to study technology and computer use in Cambodia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2007

On that day, I'll be in Cambodia at the first Cambodian Blogger Summit Conference. 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. s highspeed access. For others, it???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2006

Image from Internet Village Motoman project in Ratanakiri Village in Cambodia The above image is from the Ratanakiri Village project in Cambodia. The village is located in a remote region of Cambodia's northeast. There are no highways, no electricity, and villagers life a simple life.

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JUNE 4, 2012

Speaking of impact, London, England-based Childreach International works in partnership with local communities in the developing world to help improve children’s access to healthcare, education, child rights, and protection. Their great website is available in Japanese, English, and French. The organization has nine full-time staff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2007

steps and Internet access permitting I will do a report via Skype from Cambodia when I'm there in less ten days! I was honored to be interviewed on the August 14th edition of the Fundraising Success Podcast about personal fundraising. Stephen and I had so much fun he invited me to do a series about Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2007

Through a strange twist of fate, I connected again with Kalabird one of the first ex-pat bloggers from Cambodia that I discovered in 2005 because of her amazing photographs in flickr. How did you end up in Cambodia? What did you do while your in Cambodia (and Kenya)? I also wasn't able to shift my major that late in the game.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2007

I also found free Internet access stations. I remember my first visit here and how different arriving in Cambodia is. But I managed to sleep and drink lots of water. Feeling okay now as I wandered around the Changi Airport in Singapore in search of latte to get of my cafeine withdrawl headache. I found it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

I wanted to make sure to I blogged this before I take off for Cambodia. Expect a few more posts over the weekend pending Internet access while I'm waiting for my connection to Singapore from LA. Two upcoming workshops/conferences to put on your fall schedule.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2007

While the workshop wasn't a handson video workshop, I did something along those lines in Cambodia - the curriculum is here.). Many folks at the workshop wanted access to copies of the slides. That is, it takes more than just throwing up a blog or myspace profile or start twittering to make this work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2007

On Friday, I co-presented the video blogging presentation at the Cambodian Bloggers Summit with Virak , Cambodia's first Cambodian video blogger (I think). Upon my arrival in Cambodia and actually experiencing the how slow the Internet is, how long it takes to upload, and that the videos posted to hosting sites don't necessarily play here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2005

Similar language, cultural, and access issues as Cambodia. Interesting article about the localization of linux in Nepal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2007

So, I starting worrying about the Internet connection in Cambodia. The very calm Preetamrai , the Southeast Asian Editor for Global Voices who is also attending and leading a workshop at the Cambodia Bloggers Summit told me about his very cool new app from Techsmith, JingProject. Then I noticed that Andrew Parker had just tweeted it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

This is the second of a three-part post about what I learned about social media, NGOs, and Social Change in Cambodia during my “ homecoming trip.” ” Part 1 was about NGOs in Cambodia , focusing on the work of the Sharing Foundation. This post is about the social media community in Cambodia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2005

I'm also wondering about removing barriers to podcasting for nonprofits in countries without much infrastructure, like Cambodia. Podcasting Without An Ipod, Internet Access, or Electricity 2. Feedback would be appreciated. Conversation with Andy Carvin about Podcasting in the Third World.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2007

I put it in a pile and left at my computer desk, hoping that my Internet access would return and I could donate online. When I finally got my Internet access back, there was an email from Lawrence Lessig that said: Beth, Last week, I sent you a letter (yes! I wet my finger and rubbed the ink and it smeared.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

David Saski from Global Voices and who is running the Rising Voices project will also be at the Cambodia Bloggers Summit in Phnom Penh next week. He's over in Thailand now, but was glad to see he had Internet access - looks like free wifi too.

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APRIL 24, 2012

In the early years, we were working in China, Nepal, Cambodia, and Ethiopia, where we now purify water for over 200,000 kids daily. We had this idea that we would put all of the field data online somehow—it could be updated easily from any of our sites, and we would have immediate access.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2006

Those of us large metro areas in the US are never far away from a coffee shop with wi-fi or high speed Internet access. I remember this from my time in Cambodia where I was an hour's drive from the nearest Internet cafe while teaching ESL in the Roteang Village School english program.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

The group was energetic and excited (and didn't even complain when I sent them on a photo scavenger hunt around the conference center), and you can access the materials and see some of their work on the We Are Media Wiki.

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APRIL 29, 2009

The group was energetic and excited (and didn't even complain when I sent them on a photo scavenger hunt around the conference center), and you can access the materials and see some of their work on the We Are Media Wiki.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

VietNet-ICT’s vision is to narrow the digital divide by providing ICT access to poor people in Vietnam. All people deserve equal access to opportunities. The Center was established in 2007 by the Vietnam Scientific Association for Development of Talents, Human Resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

During the America's Giving Challenge, when we dropped into 5th place and I thought the race was over, Jen activated her supportive network with this beautiful post, " To Cambodia With Love." At that time, Jen realized Odette was in a very difficult and dangerous situation with few resources and limited access to proper help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2007

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 The recommendations in the report call for more institutionalized capacity building programs around Web2.0.

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OCTOBER 6, 2011

In her former life she was a web developer for the private sector, with a stint in humanitarian aid analysis, and a couple years overseas working for a women's micro-finance program in Cambodia and Kenya.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2007

This screencast would not have been possible without all the help I got from: Dave Amos, Web guy at the Idealist (and Ami Dar) and Laura Whitehead , South Hams, CVS, who not only allowed me complete access to their Google Analytics stats, but answered my numerous stupid questions. Be sure to read about their connection with Cambodia).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2005

Although most people in the world do not have cell phones I think it's safe to say that generally people will have access to a cell phone years before they will get access to an ipod+computer+high speed internet. Technorati Tags: cambodia , nptech Eric: I have a question for you. Do you know why there is limited adoption?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2007

This is my first trip to Cambodia during rainy season, so I was really amused the huge downpour and thunderstorm (the porch was protected). This is primarily because they do not have Internet access or computers at home and their blogs, while work related aren't necessarily part of their formal job. We dined outside on the porch.

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