Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

The final, official results have arrived for America's Giving Challenge and I'm happy say that we came in first place for global causes ! Cambodian Bloggers Want To Support Our Cause. Thanks to the Bloggers. Blogger's Campaign Update. Blogger's Campaign Update. Roger Carr and Bob Uva Join the Blogger's Campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Whether I'm fundraising for Cambodia or Creative Commons , I involve my kids. We have dinner table discussions on why it is important to support causes, particularly programs in Cambodia like the Sharing Foundation. I baked a lot of cupcakes with my mom for those bake sales. But it doesn't involve baking cupcakes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2008

This ended up being a collaboration because Harry had to go to bed and I didn't want him to miss story time -- so I finished the narration. Sina helps makes school uniforms that the Foundation provides to over 1,000 street children in Cambodia. Opened in 2000, it provides a new standard of compassionate care for children in Cambodia.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

August 31st: Cambodia Bloggers Awards Ceremony. As many of you may have already read, part of my project budget was to include video blogging camera kits to give as prizes or awards to encourage video bloggers. I figured it would have a better life in Cambodia since there was a presentation about podcasting. for honesty.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

I met her in Cambodia last month. Update: Just found Preetaim Rai's roundup on Global Voices. Photo by Tharum , found on his Facebook Profile. That's Sopheap in the red shirt. I spotted this photo in Tharum's Facebook photos the title is "Quiet Vigil Outside Burma Embassy in Phnom Penh." There's a photo group in flickr too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2008

Beth Dunn wrote a great piece called " We're The Young Generation " reflecting on an article in the New York Times about the growing use of social networks by young people for social good. He discovered the Sharing Foundation's project on Global Giving and decided to enter the America's Giving Challenge.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Photo by David Saski A dish was brought to the table and the Cambodian bloggers insisted that I try it. After significant peer pressure from the crew at Global Voices , I had no choice but to eat it. It reminded of the last time I was in Cambodia. It was fried ants, grasshoppers and frogs legs. He said "hmm.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

Jen Lemen is a writer, illustrator, blogger and immigrant advocate living in Silver Spring, Maryland. I first met Jen at BlogHer in Chicago last summer at the Global Women's panel. I first met Jen at BlogHer in Chicago last summer at the Global Women's panel. Here's a summary of her plan.

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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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OCTOBER 6, 2010

In my spare time, a video crew was following me around to create a short piece for Blackbaud Conference on October 20-21st in Washington, DC as part of the keynote to be delivered live by Allison. We met face-t0-face at a social media event in 2008, but that was the only time I had interacted her face-to-face.

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DECEMBER 13, 2007

I don't want to you annoy you dear readers, but I can't pass up an opportunity to raise some money for the Sharing Foundation to help care for children in Cambodia. Should I enter both or focus all donations through Global Giving? This is my first time as a cause administrator and a lot of you have more hands on experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2008

Unfortunately they don't have credit cards (that's a problem for some of the potential donors like the bloggers I met in Cambodia - take for example Denith ). My birthday isn't until Jan 11th, so there is still time to contribute $10 ! I want to thank everyone who has contributed so far. So, thank you to those who donated.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Flickr Photo by Villoks Many people around the world are supporting the Monks in Burma by wearing red t-shirts today or participating in vigils like this one in Cambodia outside the Burma embassy. hidalgo is on "an open-source journey around the world documenting free culture, social innovators, and global change."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Since conversations are getting more distributed and in addition to using the NpTech tag to discover, aggregate, and summarize resources, I'm incorporating nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, nptech friendfeed room, and networks. Ending Global Slavery is part of an Ashoka initiative Changemakers.net. And if you???re

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AUGUST 24, 2007

NpTech Tools Sounds like Gavin of Gavin's Digital Diner had a great time sipping Burgundy wines in France, but even better wrote a detailed description of his damn DAM system. Global NpTech. The Cambodia Bloggers Summit and the Boliva Blogosphere will have their first ever bloggers conferences on Blog Day !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Note from Beth: My colleague, John Weeks, is an expat nonprofit techie living and working in Cambodia. We first connected back in 2004 when I started my first blog on Cambodia and was covering the Cambodian Blogosphere for Global Voices. You have a full-time job. I made sure I did it every night before I went to bed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2008

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. In the U.S.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2007

I am sitting here amazed that we were able to meet the campaign goal for the Cambodia Bloggers Summit in about week's time. At the end of the Global Women's Panel the moderator Georgia Popplewell. She suggested that if anyone didn't want to pack their t-shirts, that I would be happy to take them to Cambodia.

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JANUARY 21, 2008

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. For most children in Cambodia this is a story that is all too common. theasianeconomist.com/?p=6.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

We had the time to dig into a topic and come out with a deeper understanding. more like the Berkman Center Thursday evening blogger meetups I used to attend from 2005-2007. I'm very grateful to Andy for teaching about how to podcast without electricity so I could share that with Cambodian bloggers. This is just a sampling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

I was able to raise $2,657 to cover the costs of college tuition for Leng Sopharath, an orphan in Cambodia in just 90 minutes. Anne Jackson who writes the Flower Dust raised $1800 of it in 18 hours, $800 in 15 minutes Compassion International's Global Food Crisis. What advice would you give to other bloggers who want to use their.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

The Nasscom Foundation in India, the epicenter of nonprofit technology and social innovation, invited me to present as part of the Global CSR track in a session about reaching the Bottom of the Pyramid with technology and social media. Real-time improvisation. A lot of it is re-framing and re-purposing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2005

Tharum started his blog in June 2004 while a student at the National University of Management and working for the Open Forum for Cambodia , a Cambodian NGO devoted to digital divide issues. Tharum became a celebrity blogger when his blog was featured on the front page of the Cambodia Daily (the photo above was taken during that interview).

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

On March 5, 2009 I interviewed yoga teacher and co-Founder of Off the Mat, Into the World, Seane Corn , for the Big Vision Podcast shortly after she returned from a trip to Cambodia with participants from Off the Mat, Into the World's Seva Challenge. This challenge benefited the Cambodian Children's Fund out of Cambodia.

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