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Announcing Measuring the Networked Nonprofit Book

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I am donating my royalties to support the Sharing Foundation ‘s college education program for young people in Cambodia. My family is sponsoring Keo Savon , who we met this summer in Cambodia. The money went to support students like Maneth, an IT major who now teaches computer lessons in the orphanage where my children lived.

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Networked Nonprofit Update: Royalty Check Sent to Sharing Foundation, London Event, and More

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Leng Sopharath, Phon Vandy, and CHom Thavy - Sharing Foundation College Students. I was able to raise $850 which helped cover the costs for her to participate in the Sharing Foundation’s college student sponsorship program and send her off to Noroton University with an accounting major in 2006.

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An Internet Lesson in a Rural Cambodian Village: And Then You Wait.

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Hendrie on her quarterly trips) Students, picked by lottery, come daily for six weeks to learn word processing, spread sheets, and Internet use, on our one, slow connection, acquiring a useful skill for future employment. I observed Mam Sari, our head English teacher (and computer geek) teach a Google search lesson and captured video above.

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How Would You Use Cell Phones to Bring Web2.0 to Cambodia (or other places without fast Internet)?

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to Cambodia ?" " I just have to quote her in a few places: When you complain about your student teacher ratios, look at everyone gathered around the computer in this lesson! in rural cambodia with cell phone connection?" In fact, I'm going to ping a few colleagues.

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QIK Celebrates One Year Anniversary With Charity Drive for to support Cambodian Orphans!

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They have identified the Sharing Foundation that helps children in Cambodia as the recipient. (If Leng Sopharath, a young Cambodia woman, has been sent to college for three years due to the generosity of people who read this blog , follow me (or Chris Brogan) on Twitter , or have connected with me through different social networks.

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Meet Michaela Hackner: BlogHer and Nonprofit Techie

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Through a strange twist of fate, I connected again with Kalabird one of the first ex-pat bloggers from Cambodia that I discovered in 2005 because of her amazing photographs in flickr. How did you end up in Cambodia? What did you do while your in Cambodia (and Kenya)? I also wasn't able to shift my major that late in the game.

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Reflectons from Video Blogging Session at Cambodian Bloggers Summit

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On Friday, I co-presented the video blogging presentation at the Cambodian Bloggers Summit with Virak , Cambodia's first Cambodian video blogger (I think). Upon my arrival in Cambodia and actually experiencing the how slow the Internet is, how long it takes to upload, and that the videos posted to hosting sites don't necessarily play here.

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