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11 Highlights from BlogHer '11

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Last week I spoke at BlogHer '11, a gathering of over 3,000 women bloggers. Teaching The Essential Blog Content Development Workshop I loved co-facilitating the Essential Blog Content Development Workshop with Elizabeth Soutter of Da Momma: Motherhood is Not for Wimps , and Julie Weckerlein of Julie and Martin. Connecting with friends.

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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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What I Learned About Unpresenting from Heather Gold

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I first met Heather Gold when she did stand up comedy at the first Blogher conference in 2005. In addition to comedy, Heather is a keynote speaker and teaches her unique style of interactive performance in “ unpresenting &# workshops. Happy, sad, angry, etc can help open the conversation.

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Cambodia Bloggers Summit: Help Young Cambodian Bloggers Join the Global Conversation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. I need your help. Even a donation of $20 will help. With your help, I know this can happen.

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Katya Andresen, Network for Good: How I Have Fun, Do Good

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I consider myself a teacher: I take a few days off a year to teach at American University, and I do a lot of public speaking and training. It’s incredibly rewarding to help others, and teaching – or mentoring – gives me a sense of accomplishment. Vain, because if you teach, you believe you have something important to say.

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Emily Goligoski, The SanFranista: How I Have Fun, Do Good

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and teaches yoga in San Francisco. It took a year of philosophy and anatomy study (and, more than I expected, self study) to earn my certification, but I found that the teaching staff's patience and encouragment made me a better teacher too. I asked "how can I help?" I couldn't help but smile too.

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Mary Joyce: Global Social Change Blogher - Her Latest: Free Monem Campaign

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here's a taste: "We [Egyptians] claimed freedom for others and forget our own freedom" "If I taught a woman to wear a veil, I should teach her to claim her right to enter the university wearing the veil." Fortunately for us, Monem is an eloquent writer. MONEM'S POSTS.

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