Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2008

to Cambodia ?" in rural cambodia with cell phone connection?" " I'll summarized the responses because I think this might be valuable information for ngos too. Cambodian bloggers (such as Mam Sari profiled in Beth's blog post) are dedicated, but would you do as Mam Sari does to update his blog?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

Through following his twitter stream, I discovered he's on the ground now in Southeast Asia and is coming to Cambodia. to places without high speed Internet access like Cambodia ?" (He did some terrific reporting from the Web2.0 Development Conference in Rome last September). Ping him over at his blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2005

That estimate comes from Noy Shoung, deputy general of human capacity building at the government's National Information Communications Technology Development Authority ( NIDA ), the government agency that oversees the country's telecommunication policy. Technorati Tags: cambodia nptech Maybe Tharum might be interested?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

This event is a biannual training workshop on information, communication, and technologies for citizen media, community health, and civil society development in Mekong Region and included participants are coders, journalists, and NGO staff from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. Format: Our session was 90 minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2010

That means 454 youngsters will be able to attend school in Cambodia and hopefully, fine, a route out of poverty. Bora Vuth, a young man from Cambodia who is attending college here in US, put his finger on it as he joined 136 other people on Facebook who donated to the Sharing Foundation. And connected with Mark Horvath.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

I've played the game outside of the US - bringing it to Cambodia, UK, Australia, and Romania. So, using the information in his post, I was able to create a translation of the people cards for India! I've been obsessing about the " People " cards which are based on Forrester's Social TechnoGraphics profiles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2009

For Twitter to be at its peak in utility, people who would have never had access to the world's information need to be able to not only receive it but engage with it, too. Room to Read , a San Francisco based non-profit, will help us make that happen by bringing libraries and literacy to the world's poorest regions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2010

My very first blog was about my trip to Cambodia to bring my son Harry home in February, 2000. I hand coded the html myself! I had outgrown my information design as well as my blogging platform a couple years ago. I can’t believe that I’ve been blogging for almost a decade and seven years over at Beth’s Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

It provides important information. You are making Cambodia more visible on Google and you are portraying Cambodia from a local???s Bloggers in Cambodia can connect with their relatives who live in the USA and other countries. re sharing your lives and your community with the entire world. s perspective.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

Stay tuned for more information in 2017, but I will be very busy writing facilitator process guides based on my decades of experience as a trainer and sharing that on this blog. I keynoted many conferences, including ConnectVA , American Marketing Association Nonprofit Conference , the Institute of Fundraising in London , and others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2015

Well-informed, constantly connected, and more tech-confident than your aunt Jan, they’re taking on the world’s problems, one online fundraiser at a time. Case in point: In 2014, Noah Wong visited Cambodia and India and discovered kids his own age (and younger) were growing up in prisons. Small Givers, Big Impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

Starting to get reports of podcasts, videos blogs, and photo blogs from Cambodia. Norbert is a long-time ex-pat and perhaps the first person to bring Internet access to Cambodia via a Unix to DOS program and using a dial up modem. I will find more information about Udong Mountain. A typical scene in Phnom Penh.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2007

I want to share information. I hope that people can find out the information and what is really happening and what the Cambodian perspective is. 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?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

You can check charity rating and directory sites such as GiveWell , Great Nonprofits , Philanthropedia , Charity Navigator , and Guidestar , and Philanthropy Action to get information about charities that are effective in delivering their programs. My giving style is streamlined. So, most of my charitable giving goes there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2016

Note from Beth: I’ve just returned from an amazing training project in Cambodia and will be sharing more about that this coming week. These examples are just a few of our very early lessons and we hope you’ve found them informative. Photo by LIFT.

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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

JULY 6, 2011

I used to participate in the calls way back in 2005 in the early days of blogging and always found the calls informative. Google + intends to make us more intentional about who we share our information with. Yi-Tan Community hosts a weekly 40-minute conference call about navigating change in technology and society.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2005

Why are we holding a sign that says "Buy Made in Cambodia Clothes?" If you are wearing "Made in Cambodia," feel good because it was probably made by a woman (garment workers are mostly female) in good working conditions and being paid livable wages. Technorati Tags: net2 , cambodia , sweatshopfree

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OCTOBER 31, 2017

Facebook recently announced a test in Sri Lanka, Bolivia, Slovakia, Serbia, Guatemala, and Cambodia. Create content designed to make your fans look awesome: People share content on Facebook, whether it’s a video from your Page or a blog post from your website, because they want to appear entertaining, informed, connected, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2008

The ROI presentation is not focused on Social Media but will most definitely inform the panel at NTC. Essentially, I am asking YOU (and I mean you) for $10 (USD) to help these children in Cambodia. Notes for the ROI session are here. We're in the final stretch of the America's Giving Challenge for the Sharing Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

I wanted to make sure to I blogged this before I take off for Cambodia. In fact, I'm joining him for the one on social media) Anyway,the first one is on September 12th and is about " Getting the Big Picture " We know that information technology touches many aspects of our work in nonprofits. In this session, we???ll

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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 You'll find the information here s garment industry. Call To Action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2006

Image from Internet Village Motoman project in Ratanakiri Village in Cambodia The above image is from the Ratanakiri Village project in Cambodia. The village is located in a remote region of Cambodia's northeast. There are no highways, no electricity, and villagers life a simple life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Note from Beth: As a supporter of the work that the Sharing Foundation does for children in Cambodia, I’ve seen first hand the value of literacy programs in developing countries. It was there the email veered from the typical logistical information. They had left them behind.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

I met her in Cambodia last month. JOIN THIS GROUP: [link] Here's a petition you can sign and here's Amnesty International's information. 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."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2008

You can find the information here. Create a question and answer section: Encourage participation by designing an area where users can ask for specific help and information. Make things personal: Don't just offer information, offer personal service, too. I also thought about the fantastic work that they are doing in Cambodia .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

At the beginning of the summer, I taught a master class and workshops with colleague Tharum Bunn from Cambodia at the IFC/Asia. It is always a challenge to deliver an informative and participatory session in less than 60 minutes, but this session succeeded in doing so. Here’s what I learned. Spectragram.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

I just finished doing a training for Open Society Institute media and information coordinators on social media with colleague, David Sasaki , from Global Voices. I've known since 2005 and I realized that the last time I had seen him was in 2007 in Cambodia at the blogging conference and over an interesting dinner served by our hosts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2007

While the workshop wasn't a handson video workshop, I did something along those lines in Cambodia - the curriculum is here.). What I am finding is that workshop participants need slides with information that can help explain all this to their executive directors and help initiative a conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2007

On that day, I'll be in Cambodia at the first Cambodian Blogger Summit Conference. I enjoyed Sopheap's recent post about public education about not littering in Cambodia ) After I get back in September, OneWebDay is next community web event on my calendar scheduled for September 22, 2007. Susan Crawford is the founder of OneWebDay.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

This is the second of a three-part post about what I learned about social media, NGOs, and Social Change in Cambodia during my “ homecoming trip.” ” Part 1 was about NGOs in Cambodia , focusing on the work of the Sharing Foundation. This post is about the social media community in Cambodia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

But intangibles are important to note and often inform decisions. I caught up with Jen Lemen's post " To Cambodia With Love " I met Jen at Blogher last summer in a session about Global Women Bloghers. awesome person, mother to adopted children from Cambodia and board member for her org, The Sharing Foundation ???could

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2007

women and men, who uses information & communication technologies, e.g. mobile phone, internet, radio etc., My colleague in Cambodia, Jinja, has set up a group on a special ning site. What is the campaign about? Take Back The Tech is simply a call for every person??? to use them for activism against VAW (violence against women).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2005

For months, I've been tagging urls that I found interesting about Cambodia into delicious with the cambodia tag and checking what else was tagged. The content is not only superb, but his information design skills are pretty sharp too. A while back, I asked Alexandra Samuels to answer this question: why delicious ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 21, 2005

He is currently training young people in Cambodia's provincial areas how to blog. Mean was only recently introduced to blogs and the organization got the idea of doing a blog projects from one of Cambodia's better known bloggers, Ex-King. The trainings were held in different Community Information Centers in the provinces.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2006

This week several Cambodian bloggers conducted a workshop on Personal Information Technology at International University. I would love to be able to do a workshop like this in Cambodia some day. Kalyan Keo was one of the presenters. This is very exciting to read about. What types of questions did they have?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2007

She is the head of information systems at the University of Reading in the UK. She is the first to contribute to my latest personal fundraising campaign to support Leng Sopharath , an orphan from Cambodia, for her junior year at college. Meet Shirley Williams. Her blog is called RedGloo. It's her birthday on Friday!

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