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Great reads from around the web on May 14th

Amy Sample Ward

They’ll take for granted that their voices can be heard and that a social movement can be launched from their laptop. 10 Ways to Change the World Through Social Media - Max Gladwell has a guest post at Mashable: "Our children will inherit a world profoundly changed by the combination of technology and humanity that is social media.

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Jay Dedman Will Teach A Video Blogging Workshop in New Orleans and My Old Video Camera Will Find A New Home!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

At the end of the day, noted Video blogger and author Jay Dedman will host a Hands-On Videoblogging Workshop for nonprofit organizations at NonProfit Central, 1824 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd in New Orleans at 2PM on March 19. Participants are asked to bring their laptop computer and video camera so that they can learn on their own equipment.

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Some Thoughts About Remote Presentations: Mekong ICT Camp

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Tharum Bun , a blogger in Cambodia that I have known for ten years, did an introduction and I presented for 25 minutes. Using Google Hangout, you can switch between slides and camera, although when you are in slide mode, you can’t see the remote participants. The Google Hangout was projected on the screen.

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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 I launched a personal fundraising campaign so I could help be a sponsor for the conference and get over there with video cameras, shwag (t-shirts and stickers donated by nonprofits and tech companies) and teaching resources.

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Tech and NGO T-Shirts for Cambodia

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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 There were more than enough t-shirts for the Cambodian bloggers (probably enough for some bloggers to get more than one). Like street hawkers.

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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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And the Winner is. Jaffe's Join the Conversation Book Giveaway and How To Do A Giveaway Contest on Your Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Joseph Jaffe offered bloggers a review copy of his boo, Join the Conversation: How to Engage Marketing-Weary Consumers with the Power of Community, Dialogue, and Partnership. The video blogging community also donated some video cameras for the school too.). Congratulations to Chas Offutt, Social Media Evangelist for American Rivers.