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My life as an (almost) ex-Technology Consultant

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

You’ll be great with this and it sounds like it will feed your soul in some new and better ways. I decided several weeks ago, for a variety of reasons, to retire my independent consultant hat. I want to smell the sweat of working for change in our society, from the inside out. { at 5:25 pm Good luck, Michelle. 3 Beth 03.19.07

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Join the 29-Day Giving Challenge: Change Lives One Gift at a Time

Have Fun - Do Good

It sounds like she might want to create a book out of it. I signed up for the Challenge today and decided to celebrate Day 1 by donating to the BlogHers Act' "Donate Now to Save Women's Lives" campaign on Global Giving. Stories can be posted in the 29-Day Giving Challenge social network's forum, or emailed to story@29gifts.org.

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Back From the Net2 Conference

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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 ! There needs to be more tech training for women, and I would add, for girls.

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Solutionary Women: Mei-ying Ho

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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? SOUL is a training center based here in Oakland. We place ourselves in the social justice work here in the Bay Area as a training center.

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Fair Trade Certified: An Interview with Paul Rice of TransFair USA

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Now, three hundred bucks a year doesn't sound like a lot of money, right? It sounds pretty cheap to you and me. And so if we helped small farmers and the rural poor get access to land and credit and training and other resources, and get access to markets, they in fact could grow their own way out of poverty as it were.

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Nonprofit Book Shelf: Robin Hood Marketing by Katya Andresen

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Solutionary Women: Brande Jackson

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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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