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JUNE 1, 2006

I'd seen Tara wow the audience when we were on a Blogging for Business panel together, but I'd never seen Elisa (or Lisa) from Blogher speak before, and I was super impressed. Now I'm really excited to go to the Blogher Conference ! A couple things stood out from the Gender talk.

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JANUARY 26, 2006

After that, I discovered an interesting photo set in the Link netsquared tag stream and it was Seth Mazow, so I made him a contact. If you want to take a visual trip around the world and see some breath taking photos of the work done in far flung places, spend some time browsing this collection.

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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. Photo by Dmason. Help Special Needs Children Improve Social Skills. Adopt An Acre of Rainforest.

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OCTOBER 8, 2008

The consultant also pointed out that flickr photo I used seemed to indicate that the percentage are low. It takes place within minutes, hours and days, not weeks or months." Photo by MckaySavage. I was hoping to find a better photo of young people at the computers for future presentations.

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JULY 30, 2006

The last BlogHer Conference session I went to yesterday, before leaving early to go to a wedding, was about using blogging for Community Assistance. Your blog needs to be a place to “help the helper.” As I was leaving, the group began discussing how to create a BlogHer Relief Network--I hope it happens. Tips from Sara 1.

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AUGUST 31, 2008

Photo by Christine As you know by now, Hurricane Gustav looks even more destructive than Katrina (see this round up from Lisa Stone, BlogHer , of the news reports and links). He notes that the social networking tools will allow folks to use it as a place to coordinate volunteer activities.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2006

I have a lot of tree-planters to thank for the fruit I have eaten this year: my husband for being the best hubs ever , my parents for a lifetime of love, my friends for inspiring me, BlogHer and NetSquared for helping me make a living doing something I love (blogging!), Photo credit: Eden Hall Tree by Surplusparts. thanksgiving craft

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JUNE 23, 2006

Annette Kramer, Learning Lab Blog The Collaborative Technologies Conference sponsored by CMP took place in Boston this past week. Lorretta is also working on the 2006 National Conference on Dialogue and Deliberation that is taking place just after the blogher conference in August in San Francisco and will include a pre-conference brainjams.

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AUGUST 1, 2007

During the BlogHer Conference session, How to Turn Your Blog into a GOtV (Get Out the Vote) Machine, the incredibly inspiring Zephyr Teachout (former Director of Internet Organizing and Outreach for Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign) talked about the importance of three things when organizing: * Have an online petition tool.

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JANUARY 4, 2007

I had the pleasure of interviewing Judi Sohn for Blogher and have finally published it. "I will sometimes use my blog to help drive visitors to C3 in the first place since my site is more established and gets better search engine traffic. Photo Credit Used with Permission from Flickr User c3colorectal.

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AUGUST 25, 2006

How can those notes best be aggregated in one place to be shared with all participants and perhaps with those who didn't attend the event? Photo Streams: Conference or event organizers identify and promote a conference or event tag and encourage those with digital cameras to post their photos in flickr using that tag.

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MAY 2, 2008

At the same time I discovered places like the Well, ECHO (east coast hangout) and Meta Network (where arts wire has hosted). I used my webcam attached my laptop as my first digital camera to record photos from a conference that I was taking notes for - and then publishing as web pages. The Typo Police Page. Note the blink tag!

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 22, 2007

Thanks to a referral from fellow BlogHer, Tara Hunt , I had the opportunity to fill in for a panelist at the Bioneers Conference yesterday--an annual meeting of environmental and social justice activists. Places like Seed Savers Exchange and Native Seeds are two nonprofits helping to preserve these important, and yummy vegetables.

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AUGUST 31, 2006

You will learn about the different types and uses of blogs, why it is as important to read blogs as it is to write for one, how to add photos to your blog posts, and how to increase your blog traffic. Each student will create a Blogger blog during class. She also produces her own Big Vision Podcast.

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JULY 2, 2008

I take my Envirosax most places with me. Here are what some people wrote in the comments of the original post on Have Fun * Do Good and BlogHer that they were going to do : Green LA Girl said she would pack her own chopsticks. Photo by me. Feel free to send me suggestions. What I've done: This has been easy.

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JUNE 29, 2007

In April, I blogged about HSUS "Stop Canada's Cruel Seal Hunt" campaign over at blogher and my blog and last December on my blog as part of a roundup of articles on using social networking spaces for campaigns. s a great place for us to post our most graphic videos in hopes that they go viral. Make it EASY. If you don???t

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NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Define something small and tangible - whether it be a flickr photo contest or exploring the content related to your organization's issue and identifying 10 friends or contacts. I interviewed Tuesday Gutierrez from SaveGuimaras over at blogher. I rely on photos sent to me by the filmmakers and some journalists on the field.

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MARCH 24, 2008

I wrote about the experience on BlogHer last week. Well, less than 24 hours after the camera of was in the hands of the activists from Common Knowledge, I received this comment on the Flickr photo of my camera from Karen Apricot. For example, placing a moratorium on building permits, offering homeowners???

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MAY 11, 2009

Photo by James Jordan I'm actually in the clouds, flying to California on Virgin America using the (not free) wifi listening to Mark Pesce's keynote via Mike Seyfang delivered the other day at Connecting Up Australia the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Australia (see web site for details). I keynoted the conference last year.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Last week, after the election, BlogHer co-founder Lisa Stone, asked What Will You Do To Change America? We do that through a model of living room circles, circles in cafes, and circles in yoga studios It's a place for people to actually plug in and get trained to be leaders. We'll be piloting in the spring, and then version two.

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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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FEBRUARY 18, 2009

They need to figure out how they take the "dates" and "one night stands" they've had with their Facebook friends, Twitter followers, YouTube viewers, and blog commenters to the next level of partnership, with all of its ups and downs, where they can work together over time to make the world a better place. Cross-posted from BlogHer.

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JUNE 30, 2007

I put each woman's photo at the beginning of when she talks to mark each section. And also, because I've always been involved with nonprofits, which are about helping other people and trying to make the world a better place, and I've done a lot of career counseling, I'm always trying to give people advice and share information.

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