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SXSW Panels Offer Key Advice to Nonprofits - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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These messages of value add were echoed by Mario Anima of Current TV (From Flickr and Beyond: Lessons in Community Management) who talked about the role of community managers to develop new tools to continue dialogue not just deliver information. Maybe success is as simple as providing something people want.

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Meet Cynthia Derosier who Surfs for Good Causes

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Most don't think they can surf and we get them up and riding on their first lesson!  In exchange They gave the girls some life advice about being positive and never giving up when faced with life challenges and most of all continuing to celebrate life and enjoy what good there is in the world, surfing being one of them!

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Is some big old mean (ahem) commercial scavenger getting fabulously rich off of my photos?

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That's a photo I took of Marc Canter at the first Blogher Conference in July, 2005 I put it in flickr with an "All Rights Reserved" license which is the flickr default. who I met in Second Life for advice) The link got fixed, but no apology! Beth Kanter's photo of Marc Canter in flickr - please read comments for attribution.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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I think that the only way that I got by was to be open and honest with myself about mistakes that I, or the organization, had made along the way and lessons that we had learned; and through that process, cleanse yourself of the guilt of holding it all in. What advice do you have for them? Cross-posted from BlogHer.

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Solutionary Women: Mei-ying Ho

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The podcast isn't up yet, but here is a partially modified transcription of our conversation which you can also read along with profiles of other Solutionary Women on Blogher : What is SOUL? Last week I sat down with a former co-worker, Mei-ying Ho, who is now the Co-Director of SOUL , for an interview for my Big Vision podcast.

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Stop Cyberbullying Day: Some Inspiration from the Blogosphere

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Hats off to Lisa, Jory, and Elisa (as well as to my fellow BlogHer CE editors) for posting such brilliant thoughts about this topic. Here's her advice for educators, students, and parents on how to stop Cyberbullying Today!: Take some of the free lessons at Wired Safety. about civility! Created by Scott Mcleod.

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Meet Nicola M. Wells: Social Media As An Online Door Knocking Campaign for Immigrant Rights

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This lesson hit home for us last year around the vote for the DREAM Act (a bill that would allow undocumented students, brought here as children, to have access to higher education). What's your advice about getting conversation going on your organization's blog? Cross-posted at BlogHer I noticed that you have lots of comments.