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Blogging To Improve Cambodia's Environment

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Christian Kreutz, Web 2.0 for Development Blogger, is in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam Now. Cambodian Education System Changes To OpenSource Software!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Interview with Lux Mean: Teaching Cambodians in Rural Areas To Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. We did started this email interview several weeks ago after I first heard about his project.

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Preventing Human Trafficking: An Interview with Christina Arnold

Have Fun - Do Good

I interviewed Christina for the Big Vision Podcast last month. His name is Pierre Le Roux and he has researched in that area for 25 years, speaks five languages, and has a very strong, more than a feeling, he has a very strong opinion that human trafficking can be stopped. Below is an edited transcript of our conversation.

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Training Afghani NGOs in Cambodia

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Human rights documentation can take many forms including interviews, photographs, and official documentation. Over 8 weeks this last fall, I had the privilege of working with NGOs from Afghanistan, Cambodia, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria, in a series of trainings that took place in Phnom Penh, Beirut and Istanbul.

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Reflections: Social Media and NGO/CSR Workshop in India

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And during breaks from sessions, did a lot of media interviews. Other organizations, primarily those that worked in rural areas and the " Bottom of the Pyramid " talked about challenges of different local languages, access to the Internet (electricity for that matter) and technology. No wonder I am still tired!

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Meet ThaRum: Cambodia's Second Most Famous Blogger

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Tharum started his blog in June 2004 while a student at the National University of Management and working for the Open Forum for Cambodia , a Cambodian NGO devoted to digital divide issues. He worked as a content editor for the Khmer language portal. I hope to get back to Cambodia and meet him face-to-face someday soon.