Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2007

So, she graciously agreed to participate in our panel and do a quick interview for me so I could "pro blog it" for BlogHer. After life-altering experiences in Vietnam and India, and spending the night in a displaced persons camp in Turkey after the '99 earthquake, I knew my life couldn't continue on it's current course.

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MARCH 16, 2011

They provide homeless teens with professional skills training and therapeutic experiences. August 5: I'll be at BlogHer '11 in San Diego and leading the idea generation portion of The Write Brain – Essential Blog Content Development Workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2010

The summit provides a supportive network for the vibrant and thriving community of women in technology professions by giving women an open platform to share their talents, experiences, and insights.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2008

She has been experimenting over the past few years. Flickr Photo by Veesees Elise Bauer , a food blogger who writes Simple Recipes. She does this talk because she gets a lot of traffic. She has 1,000,000 feed readers. Why do you want traffic? Has to support your goals and capacity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2008

Photo by Ezster On Saturday, I attended BlogHer Boston. The networking was fabulous - meeting many new bloggers in the Boston area as well as seeing long-time blogher buddies and of course, Jory, Lisa, and Elisa. BlogHer always inspires me and this one did not fail. It was better than eating chocolate!

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APRIL 19, 2009

We provide a supportive network for the vibrant and thriving community of women in technology professions by giving women an open platform to share their talents, experiences, and insights. Details: Date: May 12, 2009. Location: global (telephone and web). Panels: See the list of panel sessions here. Register: Registration is not yet open.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2007

Michele Martin, Bamboo Project Michele Martin is one of my favorite BlogHers in the nonprofit space. I think I've felt better this week about my blogging experience than I ever have. I discovered some wonderful nonprofit BlogHers by checking out the bloghers who participating in this learning experiment.

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MAY 29, 2009

Beth Kanter , my co-Contributing Editor for BlogHer's Social Change and Nonprofit section , and I will both be speaking about how nonprofits can use social media. He writes on his blog, "That first Boot Camp was an amazing experience for me, and since then I have only missed one.If

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2006

I'm just back after a ten-day business trip beginning with Blogher and ending with NCDD (Dialogue and Deliberation). " Maybe the blogging will be about their learning what is a blog from real life experience. I might even try it on the VOX system where I scored a beta invite from Mena Trott during Blogher.

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MARCH 4, 2011

She's just started a one year experiment in savoring and serving the world. The third guest blogger in my Have Fun, Do Good series is by Jen Louden. Jen Louden is a best-selling author, retreat creator, and Comfort Queen turned activity catalyst. Join her at www.jenniferlouden.com and on Twitter at @jenlouden.

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MAY 9, 2012

In my experience the most fun, most good-doing conversations are the kind in which the participants not only learn about themselves and each other, but actually become themselves in the process. She works with individuals and organizations whose mission is to increase our capacity for empathy, generosity, and creativity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2008

I'm in the Bay Area for the BlogHer conference which starts today. Since this group of participants were more or less at the same level - had some knowledge and experience using social media both personally and on behalf of their organizations. Wendy Levy, BVAC. BAVC has a bring your dog to work policy).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2006

I interviewed Tuesday Gutierrez from SaveGuimaras over at blogher. Tuesday has done a lot of experimenting with using social networks to promote her cause and we had an extensive conversation about that which I'm going to include in my a post for the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants on Social Marketing. So, stay tuned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2006

I've finally posted my review over at blogher. I know from first-hand experience. The day before I left for vacation I received a reviewer copy of Allison Fine's new book, Momentum: Igniting Social Change in the Connected Age. Check it out!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

I first met Jen at BlogHer in Chicago last summer at the Global Women's panel. I was going to blog it on BlogHer for my next deadline, but Jen raised what we she needed in 24 hours. s experience as a seven-year-old Tutsi girl living in poverty in a refugee camp in Uganda. Here's a summary of her plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2005

(I've been wanting to do audio and video for a long time, but it wasn't until my blogher experience that I actually got moving and picked up the knowledge to try my first one. Lisa Williams showed her vlog from Blogher at the Berkman Thursday night blogging group and during the walk to dinner, I got to ask her how she did it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Claire Williams presented a framework (TWEET) for using Twitter for campaigns and offered lots of on-the-ground practical tips. Claire talked about how people get comfortable using Twitter – some by just jumping in and experimenting. She showed the first couple of tweets from Kanya West and how he experimented.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2008

In a recent post on Blogher, Virginia DeBolt mentions the list titled 100 Awesome Webmaster Blogs by and for Women by Jimmy Atkinson. BlogHer's leadership trio Lisa, Elisa, and Jory was in the number 1 spot. This list has included other BlogHers such as Anne Zelenka and myself.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2005

Ponzi will be posting her audio interviews she did during blogher hopefully soon. Read about her experiences doing audio during a conference session here. Technorati Tags: blogher She did about 30-40 of them! Wow, I'm impressed. She rocks as an interviewer! Seems like a debate or possible feud is brewing.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2011

I spend my time experimenting with social tools to help the American public prevent, prepare for, and respond to emergencies. You can connect with her on Twitter at @wharman Wendy Harman, Social Media Maven, How I Have Fun, Do Good I am the luckiest. I get to have fun and do good for a living.

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MARCH 9, 2011

We experience the sheer delight of being alive. • . • What we create together is unique and extraordinary. When everyone shares their gifts, there’s more for us all to enjoy. • We know our impact. We know we make a difference. • We create unforgettable moments. • We create a microcosm of what’s possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2006

She wrote about their experiences setting up the blog and Flickr accounts and will write another installment about Gregg's experience in the field. I'm going to ping Dina Mehta who I met at the Global s Summit in London last year and heard her speak on blogging and disasters at blogher along with Grace Davis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2007

I've been given an opportunity to help by leading a training and sharing my experience with nonprofits and social media. Identify and interview 3-5 amazing Cambodian BlogHers and post on BlogHer site. tools) can make their study, work, and life easier. Document the learnings from this personal fundraising campaign.

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JUNE 12, 2008

Beth Kanter Although I've known Beth Kanter for a long time, and we write for BlogHer and NetSquared together, I've never heard her present until today when she gave the keynote at the 2008 Making Media Connections Conference. What do you want to learn and experiment with doing? Ultimately, isn't it a great strategy for life?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

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. Do you experience frustration at the amount of electronic information you need to process daily? So, this post is part of the presentation materials.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2005

I met some of the "Mommybloggers" at blogher. We will feature women who will share how their experiences in motherhood effect the many various aspects of her life in humorous, supportive and informative ways. and more recently they launched a site called, what else, Mommybloggers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

I first heard about Gnomedex in 2005 when I read Julie Leung's post about her experience. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2006

I wasn't there, but Alan Levine captured it on a mp3 file and blogher Bev Traynor took some notes. All we need are the PowerPoint slides to complete our virtual experience. The title was "Nancy White and the Seven Competencies of Online Interaction. I think she is wearing her purple pajamas, but not sure.

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APRIL 11, 2008

On March 19th, 2008, after spending 8 days in the hospital related to her multiple sclerosis, Cami Walker decided to give away one thing each day for 29 days : "I decided to do the 29-Day Giving Challenge as an experiment. One of my spiritual teachers, Mbali Creazzo, suggested that I try to give away 29 things in 29 days.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2010

All with a story (sometimes about how the stuff actually made it home) and an unforgettable experience that lives on in the sharing. You'll see a small oil painting from a favorite Parisian painter, and folk art from five continents and counting. All bought from an artist so grateful to be earning money from their work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2006

At Blogher, I attended a session on edublogging and one of the session leaders was Barbara Sawhill from Oberlin Language Lab.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

She her day job is to blog and she does a terrific job at NetSquared and BlogHer. I'm, of course, experimenting with person-to-person fundraising on Facebook and I'll share my learnings here. Britt is an amazing person - the most efficient woman on earth, an fantastic blogger, and all-around fun to be with! What a deal for $10 or more!

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NOVEMBER 11, 2010

These thoughts changed how I moved, and dance became a self-conscious, self-critical experience, which was a bigger reflection on how I lived life and viewed myself within it. I internalized the subtle message that as a woman I should quietly take up as little space as possible. It has been a lengthy process of reclaiming movement and dance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2005

There is a range of experience in the room in terms of live blogging. Tags: blogher bloghercon We're starting with more extended introductions which I'm not going to capture, but suffice to say that I'm in the room with a lot of incredible women. Live Blogging Tips. Don't worry about capturing everything or being perfect.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Photo by Life in Africa For this week's BlogHer Holiday Guide post, I needed to come up with a list of nonprofit organizations or causes that BlogHer readers may consider making a donation to as part of their year-end giving. LiA makes a great gift because it's not just a gift, it's an experience. Life in Africa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2006

I'm gearing up to do some live blogging at blogher and NCDD. It always helps to reflect back on your experience so you don't replicate too many of your mistakes - so I'm giving myself pointers on how to live blog. At last year's blogher, someone said that live bloggers need to carry around a hip flask in their tool box!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

What did you learn that from your experience that you apply to starting and maintaining conversations with stakeholders? I would also recommend starting small with small experiments and gradually build. You must go read the stories - they're wonderful. a great icebreaker question for Chris. What were your first steps in social media?

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