Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2006

Here are some BlogHers who are giving back through volunteering, or using their blog to advertise do * good opportunities: Rocks in My Dryer puts the word out for Operation Special Edition , a program that provides volunteer doulas for pregnant women whose husbands or partners are deployed when they give birth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

Room to Read partners with local communities throughout the developing world to establish schools, libraries and other educational infrastructure. Beth Kanter, BlogHer Contributing Editor for Social Change and Nonprofits, is the author of Beth's Blog. million members and online activists to protect the planet's wildlife and ecosystems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2006

Shortly before the Blogher July 2005 conference, I got a new digital camera that came with a video feature. There has been online conversation during the past couple of weeks on vlog list , Netsquared , TechSoup and Blogher. Libraries are beginning to use videblogging as this list compiled by David Lee King suggests. Reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

Anyone could volunteer to aggregate links in their field on their server - and would be linked to the main library on Switzerland. It was like very primitive version of wiki collaborative organizing. I aggregated web sites for dance groups, dance companies, etc.

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Switzerland Aggregator Blogher Social Media 50

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

The projects can range from preschools, to libraries and computer training centers, to women empowerment programs. We would look at a community and say, "This community needs a library, " or "You don't have enough kids in preschool." Cross-posted from BlogHer. We work with about 60,000 refugees from across the continent.

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MARCH 13, 2009

Panelists: Heather Gold, Founder , Subvert.com, Danah Boyd, Researcher , Microsoft Research and Betty Flowers, LBJ Presidential Library 5. Panelists: Ken Fisher, Editor-in-Chief , Ars Technica, Alexis Ohanian, Product Manager of Awesome , reddit.com, Drew Curtis, The Member , Fark.com, and Erin Kotecki Vest, BlogHer 10.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2008

This week, as BlogHer , launched a special campaign with GlobalGiving to raise money for lifesaving programs for women around the world, here is an interview with Donna Callejon who is the Chief Operating Officer of Global Giving. So school or library-specific projects were and continue to be attractive to donors.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 22, 2008

So, go through your book collection and take books to the library or a used book store, or pass them on to someone on the street, or whatever. Cross-posted from BlogHer giving Cami Walker 29 Day Giving Challenge The gifts can be material things. If it's a material thing, we like to encourage you to re-gift items that you own.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 8, 2007

We blogged every step of the way, uploading our travel stories at libraries and free Internet cafes. Cross-posted from BlogHer. You can read about the trip on our blogs listed below. My newest favorite thing to peruse is this site called www.wefeelfine.org —it’s a program that searches blogs, myspace, etc. Check it out.

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