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Tech and NGO T-Shirts for Cambodia

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Click To Play Whenever I've travel over to Cambodia, I have the opportunity to check two large suitcases up to 70 pounds each. This trip, I carried over two large suitcases of technology t-shirts for the Cambodian Bloggers that were donated by the generous readers of my blog and included nonprofits and web2.0 Like street hawkers.

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Give One, Get One: One Laptop Per Child.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Almost exactly two years ago, the One Laptop Per Child launched. But when I realized it would take a long time before a small NGO working in a country, like say, Cambodia, might be able to purchase a small number of them (less than 100) to outfit a school, I was disappointed. DC Metblogger Flickr Photo. Tharum was disappointed too.

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Some Thoughts About Remote Presentations: Mekong ICT Camp

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This event is a biannual training workshop on information, communication, and technologies for citizen media, community health, and civil society development in Mekong Region and included participants are coders, journalists, and NGO staff from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. The camp took place in Cha-am, Petchburi, Thailand.

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Congratulations Mean Lux on Your Promotion!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Mean Lux is a blogger in Cambodia and was one of the organizers of the Cambodia Bloggers Summer last August. He's a supporter (in spirit) of the Sharing Foundation's work - they don't use credit cards in Cambodia and so can't use the Global Giving page ). Flickr Photo.

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Video Blogging in Rural Cambodian Province

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last August, I was invited organizers of the Cambodian Bloggers Summit to give a keynote and teach Web2.0 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.

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Learnings and Reflections from BlogHer about Mobile Phones for Video Blogging and Beyond

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm going to the Cambodian Blogger Summit in a few weeks. One of the ideas I've been exploring is the whole notion of video blogging from Cambodia by Cambodians. While I was in Chicago, Ryanne Hodson , who I met at last year's BlogHer, is in Cambodia and Southeast Asia with Jay Dedman to document the work of Project Hope International.

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An Internet Lesson in a Rural Cambodian Village: And Then You Wait.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I launched a bloggers campaign and Twitter Wall of Fame as part of the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge. (To Mam Sary also received several of the video cameras Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson brought over to Cambodia last July donated by Doug from the video blogging community. I know it is difficult without being there.

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