Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Globally, 1 in 3 girls around the world is denied an education by the daily realities of poverty, violence and discrimination. I know this first hand because my family and I have been honored to support the college education of two young Cambodia women through the Sharing Foundation ‘s education program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

You need to add Cambodia's voice to the global conversation happening on video blogs. I set up a series of compression tests and plan to see if play at all while in Cambodia. I always like to start with the why. right now two reasons: Sometimes pictures and people's voices are a better way to tell a story than text alone.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 8, 2011

Desiree Adaway, Global Service and Leadership: How I Have Fun, Do Good How do I have fun and do “good”? Every year I commit to leading a global volunteer trip. I have watched Buddhist monks pray at Ta Prohm in Cambodia. Ta Prohm Temple, Angkor, Cambodia Seriously awesome, right? Egypt I volunteer! It’s what I love.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Click To Play Here a round up of some the fabulous women Bloghers in Cambodia and Linux Chix that I met. David Saski from Global Voices summarized her presentation: Dee Dee's 10 minute introduction to why she blogs and what she got out of it put a big smile on my face. Dee Dee with the BlogHer bag! Good how to resource here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Just got this from David Bacon, founder of Carpets for Communities Hi Everyone, Help us free children in Cambodia from exploitation by taking 2 minutes to vote. The $5,000 prize money (and more importantly world-wide exposure) will all go towards freeing children from exploitation and getting them back to school in Cambodia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2011

It is a major day of global celebration of women. Tom Watson has written about a remarkable woman in Cambodia, Mu Sochu. I’d like to introduce you to Keo Savon, an orphan from Cambodia from the same orphanage as our daughter. It is a major day of global celebration of women.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2016

Tech2Empower: Helping Women in Cambodia. Wake’s Tech2Empower (T2E) is a professional development opportunity through which women working in a range of fields can use their skills and expertise to contribute to advancing women’s empowerment and security globally. For T2E Cambodia , the focus is human trafficking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 27, 2005

She has been blogging about her work and life at Sreisaat Adventures in Cambodia since January, 2004. She moved to Cambodia in April, 2000. How and why did you find yourself in Cambodia? My sister was working for an NGO as a volunteer agriculturist in Cambodia and encouraged me to take a job there. Mlup Baitong???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2006

If you are a regular reader of the Cambodia4kids Blog or read Global s Online , you already know about the Cambodian Government's actions to silence critics of the ruling party hit its peek when Human Rights activists Kem Sokha, Yeng Virak and Pa Nguon Teang were all arrested regarding banners displayed on Human Rights Day December 10, 2005.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2005

I started to find great expat blogs about Cambodia, particularly sweetcucumber and started to follow the links of the comments and found another blog which referenced Elizabeth's project. I am hoping that I can set up something with my son's class and the kids she is working in Cambodia over the next year. I emailed her.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2005

She grew up in a small village in Cambodia near Angkor Wat , one of country???s I had never seen or touched a computer when I lived in Cambodia ??? They ask me a lot of questions about where I grew up in Cambodia. They are inspired that I grew up in a small village in Cambodia and live in Manhattan. video blogger???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2007

I took it during my last trip to Cambodia, almost three years ago. We also have a presence at Global Giving which has recently launched a new look for its site. I love that photo. Those kids are the children of the poorest villagers in Roteang Village. Their parents are working on our farm project. A sort of Headstart program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2005

Noy Shoung also predicts that by 2006 more computer users in Cambodia will be using Open Source software versus Microsoft. This came from an article in the Phnom Penh Post, an English language newspaper, published in Cambodia and was excerpted by Tharum's blog. Technorati Tags: cambodia nptech Maybe Tharum might be interested?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2005

The Global s Summit takes place on December 10th and is an opportunity for contributors and community members to take stock of what we???ve ve done, promote our successes, and brainstorm about what a global citizens??? As a bridge blogger for the project, covering Cambodia, I'm delighted to have the opportunity to participate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Ever since, I’ve continued to raise money for my favorite charity, the Sharing Foundation that takes care of children in Cambodia. It’s been almost five years since my first foray into social fundraising to raise money from my friends and followers to send a young woman, Leng Sopharath to college.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2007

He's an editor at Global Voices and his personal blog, Better Days , where I first learned about RSS readers and how to use bloglines. Contribute to my latest personal fundraising campaign to support Leng Sopharath , an orphan from Cambodia, for her junior year at college.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2007

Benefits of Global Blogging: Dinner Companions No Matter Where You Go! I remember at the 2005 Global Voices Summit, Rebecca MacKinon made a toast to everyone and jokingly said that those who are involved with Global Voices will never lack for dining companions no matter where they go in the world. We dined outside on the porch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2005

I'm just back from the Global s Summit in London. I think it was more intense than a Westerner's culture shock visiting Cambodia for the first time. I vlogged some of the friday night informal dinner - global dining partners - Download globaldinningpartners.wmv. Technorati Tags: globals tag: [link]. Flickr tag: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2008

Mean Lux is a blogger in Cambodia and was one of the organizers of the Cambodia Bloggers Summer last August. He's a supporter (in spirit) of the Sharing Foundation's work - they don't use credit cards in Cambodia and so can't use the Global Giving page ). Flickr Photo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

They are hosting the Global CSR track at the Indian Leadership Forum in Mumbai Feb 9-11. Nasscom Foundation is a partner of TechSoup Global and has an impressive technology product donation program called " BIGTech " Here's how they describe their mission and impact. Then onto teaching two workshops.

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JUNE 4, 2012

I did a post a few weeks ago on youth programs in TechSoup Global's new Local Impact Map and decided I hadn’t covered this resource nearly enough. demonstrates what nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries around the world are doing with their TechSoup Global software donations to further their missions. Our Local Impact Map.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

One of the ideas I've been exploring is the whole notion of video blogging from Cambodia by Cambodians. While I was in Chicago, Ryanne Hodson , who I met at last year's BlogHer, is in Cambodia and Southeast Asia with Jay Dedman to document the work of Project Hope International. I'm going to the Cambodian Blogger Summit in a few weeks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

August 31st: Cambodia Bloggers Awards Ceremony. The idea for the kits came from the video blogging community when I blogged about wanting to see more video blogging in Cambodia and through the generosity of Coffee with Doug video blog, I sent over 3 camera kits with Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson to the Sharing Foundation's computer school.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 11, 2008

Off the Mat, Into the World is a 501(c)(3) project of The Engage Network that, "aims to inspire and guide you to find and define your purpose and become active in your local or global community in an effective, sustainable and joyful way." Neil of Neil's Cambodia Challenge is taking the Challenge to fulfill one of his Five Wishes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

My last trip to Cambodia, I photographed monks. Here's the email message I received: I stumbled upon your slide show of beautiful photos of Cambodia. We will then be taking the website global--it will have a wide reach and have a profound impact on many students. Via my flickr stream. I'm so honored.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 29, 2008

The Sharing Foundation's mission is to help meet the physical, emotional, educational and medical needs of orphaned and seriously disadvantaged children in Cambodia. Beth is on the Board of the Foundation, and she and her husband have two children, Harry and Sara, who were adopted as orphans from Cambodia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Whether I'm fundraising for Cambodia or Creative Commons , I involve my kids. We have dinner table discussions on why it is important to support causes, particularly programs in Cambodia like the Sharing Foundation. I baked a lot of cupcakes with my mom for those bake sales. But it doesn't involve baking cupcakes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

Via Facebook updates, I learned from Tharum that Preetaim Rai, the Southeast Asia Editor for Global Voices, posts a roundup of protests and prayer vigils in neighboring countries. He points over to a post from Mean Lux in Cambodia and his flickr set. My previous coverage: Why Sopheap Wearing A Red T-Shirt Virtual Red T-Shirts

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

The final, official results have arrived for America's Giving Challenge and I'm happy say that we came in first place for global causes ! An Internet Lesson in Rural Cambodia School. To Cambodia - Coolcat Teacher Blog. Noel Hildago Knows $10 Can Do in Cambodia. Hendrie: You're Never Too Old To Change the World.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2007

Location: Cambodia | Need: $18,700. The Sharing Foundation is honored to be one of the projects over at Global Giving ! This project will immunize 570 children in a small Cambodian village against Hepatitis B, diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus, all potentially fatal and preventable diseases. Theme: Health |.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 27, 2007

My husband and I adopted two beautiful children, Harry and Sara, from Cambodia. But, also felt sad when thought of the many children in Cambodia who would not have the same opportunities as our children do. Our project on Global Giving focuses on literacy which is key to education and jobs for poor children. Sign up here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2007

From Nhung Son's Facebook Photos Two weeks ago, Blogger Michele Martin , set up an America's Giving Challenge widget for the Sharing Foundation to support the project over at Global Giving. For most children in Cambodia this is a story that is all too common. Other bloggers have also signed up to participate and many have.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2007

Her blog covers social, political, and economic global issues from the perspective of young Cambodian professional. Many people in Cambodia are afraid to express their ideas about human rights and other issues. How come there are not so many BlogHers in Cambodia? There are women blogging in Cambodia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2008

The impact of HIV and AIDS is felt by millions of people globally every day, particularly in countries like Cambodia. This awareness day can help bring much-needed global attention to the disease, particularly via the Internet. Published by Global Voices bloggers on World Aids Day 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2007

She earns a monthly wage working for the Sharing Foundation 's Sewing Project, a vocational program run by the Foundation that trains young women so they can earn a sustainable living wage with a home-based sewing business or a better paying job in Cambodia???s Donate $10 or more to our cause through Global Giving now ! Call To Action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

I met her in Cambodia last month. Update: Just found Preetaim Rai's roundup on Global Voices. Photo by Tharum , found on his Facebook Profile. That's Sopheap in the red shirt. I spotted this photo in Tharum's Facebook photos the title is "Quiet Vigil Outside Burma Embassy in Phnom Penh." There's a photo group in flickr too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

After significant peer pressure from the crew at Global Voices , I had no choice but to eat it. It reminded of the last time I was in Cambodia. Harry always asked, "Mommy, if I lived in Cambodia, would we be eating bugs for lunch." It actually didn't taste bad, but all I could imagine ants crawling down my throat.

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