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JULY 13, 2008

I rather not have a list, but get to know them one-by-one - and these interviews are a way of doing that. 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.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2007

Here's my interview: 1. " Often, that blog is about personal issues (it was quite taken up with my moving experiences lately,) but I also use it to talk about more specifically spiritual issues. Cross posted at Blogher You can learn more about her impressive accomplishments by reading the official CV/Bio at her web site.

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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. Photo by KK.

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OCTOBER 22, 2008

I wrote about my experience with the Giving Challenge last spring in the post, 29 Day Giving Challenge Takeaway: Compassion is Hardest to Give. Below is an edited transcript of an interview from October 11, 2008 with Cami Walker, the founder of the 29-Day Giving Challenge, which you can also listen to on the Big Vision Podcast.

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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

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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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2006

I just posted an interview with Sombit over at blogher where Sombit mentions his plans for GlobalGiving's presence on Second Life. I felt compelled to mention these two facts only because I feel it is part of my board duties. and who knows, someone may follow the link and contribute.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2008

Last month I attended the " Twenty-Something Meet Up " at the BlogHer Conference, facilitated by the fabulous Zandria. The next logical step, of course, is to start to get to know some of these bloggers by doing interviews. Julia Smith, who blogs at the idealist. " I left room inspired to compile a living list.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2006

I don't have as much experience with podcasting considering I just put my first one up this week, but I thought I would share how I did it for anyone who was interested in producing their own. I edited the interview in GarageBand and exported it back into my iTunes. A while ago I posted an entry about how to Start Your Basic Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

   I was to track her down for an interview. As a result, EVERY woman I interviewed noted that her life is better now because of their experience with cancer! Cross posted at BlogHer. Cynthia is convinced surfing can help Hawaii's at-risk youth.    How did you get interested in surfing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2007

I had the pleasure of interviewing Judi Sohn for Blogher and have finally published it. Like me she is a self-taught techie, "Everything I know now I taught myself by experimenting and learning from others online." Judi Sohn, Director of Operations and Communications, for the Colorectal Cancer Coalition.

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MARCH 4, 2009

Fellow BlogHer Contributing Editor, Beth Kanter, writes about the fundraising Twitter campaign for CARE happening in conjunction with the film in her post, Tweetathon To Honor International Women's Day and To Spread The Word About A Powerful Noise Live. The film is being presented by Fathom Events, CARE , ONE , and the U.N.

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APRIL 24, 2007

Paul Rice, the founding president and CEO of the Oakland based nonprofit, TransFair USA , answers these questions and others in an interview for the Big Vision Podcast. People are looking for higher quality food, they're looking for healthier food, and they're looking for a more pleasurable experience around food.

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MAY 27, 2009

Even if you feel like you need more experience, more skills, more time, more money, more confidence, more whatever before you can pursue your dream, take a step, even if it is a small one, towards your dreams. Cross-posted from BlogHer. Not breaking big dreams down into small actions. Britt Bravo is a Big Vision Consultant.

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AUGUST 10, 2007

An interview with Allen Gunn of Social Source Commons by Britt Bravo over at Netsquared. and Associations thoughts from Acronym: Experience Web 2.0 Here's a roundup of all the live blog posts from the recent BlogHer conference neatly organized by session. Ambassadors in Africa - An Interview with Kim Lowery, Kabissa.

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APRIL 26, 2006

As I mentioned in a post a couple weeks ago, I've started writing a weekly feature over at Blogher called Solutionary Women. I thought I'd share this week's interview with Mary Brune, co-founder of MOMS (Making Our Milk Safe). Mary was kind enough to let me e-interview her for this post. Describe the work you do for MOMS.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

Kellogg Foundation, was kind enough to tell me more about the Fund's work in the following e-interview. We have each had an experience that connected us with something larger than ourselves, and discovered that this awareness can be cultivated from within. Cross posted from BlogHer. What brought its founders to that conclusion?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

Nedra Weinreich, Spare Change Blog Nedra Weinreich was one of the first nonprofit tagged blogs that I discovered while browsing the blogher blogroll a few months back. As you'll note from that article, Nedra has also been exploring Second Life and we bumped into each other at the TechSoup space there where we completed our interview.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

I attended the " Twenty-Something Meet Up " at the BlogHer Conference. EngageJoe.com blogs about his experiences spearheading and contributing to social change mashups and working with nonprofits on online strategy. Non-Profit Chas shares his experiences as he helps take a small non-profit organization to the next level.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2006

I've been experimenting quite a bit over the last 18 months way too many social networking tools. I realize that finding the time to experiment for many of us can be difficult, especially if those experiments do not lead to direct outcomes. And, there is so much to experiment that one person or organization can't do it alone.

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MARCH 13, 2009

60) Search « 5 Quick Steps to Better SEO | Main | Tech & Style Tips for Conducting Blog Interviews » Tuesday Mar 10 2009 Top 10 SXSW Interactive Panels Your Nonprofit Should Attend Tuesday, March 10, 2009 at 05:27PM | by Allyson Kapin Are you planning to check out SXSW Interactive this year?

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MAY 10, 2006

Last week I sat down with a former co-worker, Mei-ying Ho, who is now the Co-Director of SOUL , for an interview for my Big Vision podcast. The podcast isn't up yet, but here is a partially modified transcription of our conversation which you can also read along with profiles of other Solutionary Women on Blogher : What is SOUL?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Hats off to Lisa, Jory, and Elisa (as well as to my fellow BlogHer CE editors) for posting such brilliant thoughts about this topic. Andy's post yesterday describes how he is experimenting incorporating the use of Twitter into this campaign. Ethnic, racial or gender slurs. Bad language directed at a person.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2006

articles on TechSoup, including those written by Nptechersphere bloghers Marnie Webb ( Ten Ways to Use Web 2.0 Seth Mazow, who attended blogher conference, and who writes the non-governmental imagination blog , asks " Am I a tech conference whore? She's put up a mp3 file of the interview and it's definitely worth a listen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

In August, I did a little fundraising experiment that involved Twitter and an integrated offline component at the Gnomedex Conference in Seattle. Katya Andresen wrote a post analyzing why the experiment was successful, but noted, " These results are not typical. Cross posted at BlogHer. Tell me about you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2008

Last month I attended the " Twenty-Something Meet Up " at the BlogHer Conference, facilitated by the fabulous Zandria. The next logical step, of course, is to start to get to know some of these bloggers by doing interviews. kicked off as a personal 'social media experiment' to see if anyone gave a flip about my voice.

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JULY 6, 2006

As Katya herself explains in a May interview with fellow Blogher Nonprofit Contributing Editor Britt Bravo "It lays out ten sound principles (I call them "Robin Hood Rules") behind some of the most successful marketing campaigns in history, and shows how anyone can use them to advance their cause by leaps and bounds.

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JUNE 7, 2006

Last month I wrote a short post for Blogher, Roadies for a Cause , about a nonprofit called Lokahi Outreach , that partners with organizations like the ONE campaign and Oxfam to help them do grassroots campaigning on the road. The organization's founder, Brande Jackson, took the time to answer my Solutionary Women e-interview questions.

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JUNE 9, 2006

It was developed by Carnet Williams, a serial nonprofit social entrepreneur/techie, who I tracked down for an interview many months ago. Donors Choose (which came my way via Blogher Lisa Stone's sister!) Another new tool is PledgeBank. The concept is: Tell the world ???I???ll ll do it, but only if you???ll ll help me do it."

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MARCH 8, 2007

To celebrate the first day, and hopefully prevent the recurrence of the second, here is an e-interview with Rae Abileah, the Local Groups Coordinator of CODEPINK. A lot of my organizing is done over the Internet, though I am most nourished by my direct face-to-face experiences working with women around the country. What is CODEPINK?

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JUNE 30, 2007

I asked four of the women who I had previously interviewed for the Big Vision Podcast to share what brought them to their work, and their advice for the graduate and undergraduate women who attended the conference. Like there'll be times where I'm really interested in food issues, and I'm interviewing and talking to people about that.

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