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Video Blogging in Cambodia

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right now two reasons: Sometimes pictures and people's voices are a better way to tell a story than text alone. 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 should do that more often.

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Preetam Rai, Global Voices Southeast Asia Editor, is helping to send Leng Sopharath to College! Why Not You Too!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've raised some money from my cause from people who are my friends online, but I've never met offline. 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. That's powerful. Why is that? That's why I'm asking for my friends on Facebook to help.

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Guest Post by Michaela Hackner: Community Matters Even At SXSW

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I actually have a repertoire of stories, but one of them is about Michaela Hackner ( Kalabird.) I connected with her through her amazing photos of Cambodia on Flickr when I was covering the Cambodian blogosphere for Global Voices over five years ago.

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More on Burma - Protests in Real Life and Online

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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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I'm Speaking at SXSW About Nonprofits and Social Fundraising

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Yet many have overcome the odds and made a splash online and offline by using the latest Web technologies - for pennies on the dollar. We connected through the "cambodia" tag on flickr because I was tracking it for Global Voices back in 2005. Human Voice. Peter identified the pros/cons as: Pros. Year round.

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Networked Nonprofit in Boston: A Story of Contrasts

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Networking: Weaving Online and Offline, Strong Ties and Weak Ties. That’s where I first discovered and connected with the Global Voices Community around my interests in Cambodia. (I’m I’ll be on the Twitter back channel following the #netnon hashtag from the Independent Sector Conference in Atlanta.).

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The Jing Project: Embed Screencasts Into Conversation

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So, I starting worrying about the Internet connection in Cambodia. The very calm Preetamrai , the Southeast Asian Editor for Global Voices who is also attending and leading a workshop at the Cambodia Bloggers Summit told me about his very cool new app from Techsmith, JingProject. Yet to be created).

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