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OCTOBER 10, 2009

If after asking yourself the 10 Questions to Get You Started Using Social Media for Your Nonprofit or Do-Good Project, you've decided that a blog is good tool for you, consider incorporating the following 10 elements of an effective nonprofit, or do-good blog into your blogging strategy: 1. Interviews (written, audio, video).

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AUGUST 3, 2008

I attended the " Twenty-Something Meet Up " at the BlogHer Conference. Julia Smith, who blogs at the idealist and was in the room asked "Where are the twenty something/millennial bloggers writing about social change, activism, and nonprofits?" There are lots of twenty-something bloggers and gen-y bloggers.

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APRIL 25, 2012

My first guest blogger is the lovely Amy Kessel. I recently created an interview series on my blog called Unfurling , where I conduct interviews with women and record them as videos. The interviews give each woman a chance to explore what’s unfurling in her right now, and to fall in love with that unfurling a bit more.

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JANUARY 8, 2006

Blogher Lisa Stone interviews Ethan Zukerman and Rebecca MacKinnon, Global s Founders. How does this "conversation community" take its next steps, when so many bloggers live in countries that lack a free press? The call is tommorrow, but you can always listen to the audio file. A stage for global activism? Feedback?

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JULY 13, 2008

Are "the best" or "most influential" lists of bloggers a good thing or a bad thing? I rather not have a list, but get to know them one-by-one - and these interviews are a way of doing that. But in the last month, I've come across three "best of" type women blogger lists. I blog at Marketing 2.0 &

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NOVEMBER 9, 2010

I hope you've been enjoying my have fun do good guest blogger series as much as I am (: The tenth guest blogger in the series is Kimberly Wilson. She blogs and podcasts at Tranquility du Jour and tweets at @kimberlywilson. You can follow her on Facebook at facebook.com/kimberlywilson. Have I mentioned pigs?

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

In the first edition of this partnership, I interviewed Erin O'Connor Jones , the Director of Candidate Services and Managing Associate at Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group. Green Blogger Convention To Kick Off In Los Angeles Next Month on Eco razzi. 19 Free Webinars for Nonprofits - November 2009 on Wild Apricot Blog.

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JULY 3, 2006

Rose Aguilar from Bay Area Business Woman interviewed me recently for an article entitled, "Women's Voices Boom in the Blogosphere." During my conversation with Rose, she told me about a panel she was on, that had a mainly women audience, and how surprised she was by how many women had questions about blogging basics.

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JANUARY 4, 2007

I had the pleasure of interviewing Judi Sohn for Blogher and have finally published it. I really enjoy reading her personal blog, A View from Home and if you work with nonprofits and technology - you'll find it very valuable. " She uses her personal blog, A View From Home , to help her keep informed of technology.

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JULY 29, 2005

I'm live blogging at blogher and in about an hour and half, I'll be attending a training on how we're supposed to be tagging our posts and some points about writing style, etc. Her is the description of my task: All social and networking portions of BlogHer are being blogged all day by our BlogHer-on-the-street, Beth Kanter.

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AUGUST 21, 2008

Ask bloggers to review/write about your book You can find a list of the Top 100 Blogs on Technorati as a place to start, but all of their audiences may not be appropriate for your topic. Before you draft your blogger outreach email, check out my 10 Tips for Asking Bloggers to Write About Your Cause.

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MARCH 7, 2011

The fifth guest blogger in my Have Fun, Do Good series is Emily Goligoski. Emily is a w riter and digital strategist who blogs as TheSanFranista. She produces tech entrepreneurship content for the organization Women 2.0 and teaches yoga in San Francisco. You can follow her on Twitter at @emgollie.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2008

"So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves but each other." -- President-elect Obama's acceptance speech November 4, 2008 In her post today, Congratulations President-elect Obama: Now, BlogHers, what will YOU do to change America?

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AUGUST 10, 2007

Presentation Slides on flickr Blog post here. Phillip Smith has a thoughtful post called " Social tech meets the Social Innovation Generation " The Nonprofit Eye blog writes about leadership challenges in the nonprofit sector. Heather at Aspiration is doing some research on blogging and professional development.

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MAY 5, 2008

I got to know her when she asked me to participate in her Blogging Neighbor Series 1. I am a social marketing believer, blogger, researcher, practitioner and enthusiast in the concept of Social marketing for good. Is it CNN broadcasting live, yahoo news feeds, a blog, your next door neighbor, or a guest lecturer?

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JULY 29, 2005

Blogher's first big social event was Friday night dinner was at the Andiamo Cafe for approximately 140 people. We stayed on the back patio with another blogher from LA and nursed a few drinks to help us mingle. You could hear "I read your blog, I'm so glad to meet you." " Technorati Tags: blogher bloghercon

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AUGUST 25, 2008

Later that summer, I had the honor of being interviewed by Ponzi at BlogHer. I love conversational keynotes and have ever since I first experienced them during the Global Voices London Summit 2005 and Blogher plenary session in 2005. s very difficult to decide which to attend. This year, I finally got an opportunity to attend.

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OCTOBER 22, 2008

Below is an edited transcript of an interview from October 11, 2008 with Cami Walker, the founder of the 29-Day Giving Challenge, which you can also listen to on the Big Vision Podcast. In the interview, Cami mentions that she is writing a book about the 29 Day Giving Challenge. by Spirit River Studio.

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JULY 6, 2006

Nedra Weinreich, Spare Change Blog Nedra Weinreich was one of the first nonprofit tagged blogs that I discovered while browsing the blogher blogroll a few months back. " She writes the Spare Change Blog which I think is one of the best out there that focuses on social marketing. Why did you start blogging?

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MARCH 4, 2006

I've been behind on my reading and blogging due to craziness at work and issues that needed to be attended to with children (don't ask). As a result, been behind with the online/blogging part of my life. Nancy's blog is a combination candy store stocked with high quality dark chocolate and a rabbit hole. NGO/NPTECH Web2.0

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NOVEMBER 12, 2006

There is enough secondary research published either via blog posts or research hubs about who uses these tools. I've pointed to a lot of resources in my blog.). There's lots of examples in this blog. I interviewed Tuesday Gutierrez from SaveGuimaras over at blogher. Take advantage of that information.

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AUGUST 10, 2008

Last month I attended the " Twenty-Something Meet Up " at the BlogHer Conference, facilitated by the fabulous Zandria. "Where are the twenty something/millennial bloggers writing about social change, activism, and nonprofits?" Her personal blog, EvangeList , focuses on social media, social change, and nonprofits.

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OCTOBER 24, 2009

You don't necessarily see women keynote at technology conferences (well accept for women focused technology conferences like blogher ), but Geoff was trying hard ensure a gender balanced program and succeeded. more like the Berkman Center Thursday evening blogger meetups I used to attend from 2005-2007. This is just a sampling.

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MARCH 30, 2007

Looks other nptech bloggers and social networks are supporting this effort too! Hats off to Lisa, Jory, and Elisa (as well as to my fellow BlogHer CE editors) for posting such brilliant thoughts about this topic. If the network is blocked, I've got a template on my blog. REPORT - Every little BIT helps. The Human Genome project.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2006

What have women bloggers who work in the nonprofit technology space been talking about this past month? A Roundup of Roundups Emily from the Nonprofit Blog Exchange offered this roundup of posts from nonprofit blog exchange blogs. She shares her reflections on what she heard and visions for the field on the N-TEN blog.

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OCTOBER 23, 2006

To atone, here's a set of links for this week, all from female bloggers. Let's start with Michelle herself, who posted some comments on the NTEN-sponsored discussion of open API's last week to both the NetSquared site and her own blog. Kathy quotes from "Morton", who wrote in a comment on another blog. ' Open API's.

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JULY 26, 2006

This is a summary of what women bloggers have been talking about in the nonprofit technology space this past month or what I'm dubbing the nptechersphere. I'm awlways delighted to discover new (to me) blogs written by women who work in the NPTECH space. I will be posting interviews with them in a few weeks, so stay tuned.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

So, I thought it would be great to interview her and learn why she was successful. Tell me about your blog. I began blogging before blogging was a term.when I was sixteen, back in the age of Geocities and Members.AOL.Com. In February, I was asked to go to Uganda with 15 other bloggers through Compassion International.

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JUNE 30, 2007

I asked four of the women who I had previously interviewed for the Big Vision Podcast to share what brought them to their work, and their advice for the graduate and undergraduate women who attended the conference. What I do is, I write for several blogs, as she mentioned. laughter] I looked at her blog, and she was a very good writer.

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