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Need Your Help for a BlogHer Post: Kids and Philanthropy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm working on what has become my annual holiday post at BlogHer on the topic: Helping kids understand why it is better to give than to receive. As a parent or teacher, how do you teach this important life lesson? Take for example the lemon stand fundraiser. Any that use Web 2.0?

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My life as an (almost) ex-Technology Consultant

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

In any event, I have a lot of other skills and knowledge besides databases and coding: skills and knowledge in teaching, in writing, in working with organizations, in facilitation, in religion and spiritual practices, and in working with people, that I want to use now. 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Michele 03.19.07

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Gender Blogging and Personal Branding: Khmer Style

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm very excited to be teaching Web2.0 I can't wait to share what I learn with the Blogher Community). She said that spending four hours a day answering email is better than being a garbarge person and to see how popular bloggers handled their email she left comments on the blogs of "a-list" bloggers.

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Grants for Kids To Create Healthy Living Programs in Their Community: What blogs provide inspiration?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm also trying to teach them to make good food choices, get exercise, and be healthy. I asked a few colleagues on Blogher and beyond and discovered a few excellent blogs and video blogs that offer advice and recipes for parents who want to make sure their kids are eating a healthy meal. Drop a comment to this post and let us know.

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Information Coping Skills - How Information Overloaded Are You? Take This Quiz

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm speaking at BlogHer Boston on Saturday. Even better the opportunity to see long-time BlogHer friends Liz Henry , Sarah Dopp , and many others. Leave me a comment with any tips or suggestions for reducing information overload. So, this post is part of the presentation materials. My outline is here.

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Chris Brogan: What Were Your First Steps?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I got inspired by this post and left a quick comment, but then I reading comments by others and folks who wrote the answers on their blogs. Later, as more and more people created web pages, I would hand facilitate comments and did primitive crowd sourcing. I read Connie Bensen's story and she encouraged me to post on my blog.

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Friendship, 5-Minutes, Appreciation, Action, Integration, Things: More Reverb 10

Have Fun - Do Good

Feel free to share your answers in the comments. As I mentioned in a post last week , I'd like to teach a a class in 2011 about The Art of Blogging: Creating Juicy Content for Artists, Writers, Creative Entrepreneurs and Do-Gooders. Going to NYC with the hubs to see friends, family, and to go to the BlogHer Conference.