Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2016

Tech2Empower: Helping Women in Cambodia. Last year, I was honored to work on an amazing project that brought me to the Ukraine along with a delegation of women technologists to work with local women’s groups on building technology skills. For T2E Cambodia , the focus is human trafficking. You can make a donation here.

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OCTOBER 3, 2011

Press Release Austin Nonprofit Bridges Digital and Education Divide in Cambodia - PR.com : That’s something that Austin’s Windows of Wonder Institute, or WOWi, wants to end.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2005

Before I go on about this interesting artist/social activist project, I found it in the blogsphere. My own little action learning project. 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.

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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 29, 2008

The luck of seven is an open-source, around the world project by noel hidalgo , a new york city based activist, organizer, blogger, barcamper and coworker. He wrote a post called " Unshakeable Activism " where he lets you know that the $10 donation can truly change a child's life in Cambodia. Photo by Noneck. Click To Play.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2005

I also write a blog about Cambodia and sometimes my nonprofit technology and cambodian interests intersect. Khmer Open Source Software Project is not just technical, but cultural too. A case study is also available. Blogs and Development Thinking from the World Bank. Blogs and Development Thinking from the World Bank.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2006

photo from the E-Tuk Tuk project I just had to blog it. Would love to see something like this in Cambodia and perhaps is a step towards comprehensive connectivity ? I learned about this project via a well-written and researched blog post called " Building Peace through ICT - Ideas for practical ICT4Peace Projects."

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NTEN

APRIL 24, 2012

In the early years, we were working in China, Nepal, Cambodia, and Ethiopia, where we now purify water for over 200,000 kids daily. We knew we would ultimately be in 16 countries by the year 2020, which meant that tracking, monitoring, and evaluating projects would become more complicated by the day. We'd love to hear your stories!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2007

And, I have to prepare some instruction in a completely different context, get organized to visit Sharing Foundation projects, pack T-shirts, AND finish the massives amount of work before I go. So, I starting worrying about the Internet connection in Cambodia. The jing project is their first experiment in the Mac platform.

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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

DECEMBER 21, 2012

Now a parent with my own children, I involved my kids when they younger when I was fundraising for Cambodia or Creative Commons , We have dinner table discussions on why it is important to support causes, particularly programs in Cambodia like the Sharing Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2007

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

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2007

I noticed a Twitter sticker on the wall and was wondering whether there any Twitter t-shirts that could go to Cambodia. Who knows maybe Minelli will incorporate Twitter in his next Cambodian guerrilla art project? A special thanks to these donors! Matthew Saunders.

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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

AUGUST 24, 2012

Note from Beth: Just as I was leaving for Cambodia, there was a great discussion within a comment thread over on my blog brand page on Facebook in reaction to post about the HSUS Facebook post that went viral. In terms of measurement, here are some key facts about the project. What lessons can we ‘draw’ from this project?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Baskets labeled with future projects for the Cambodian bloggers to do as a community were set out. People were given two angkuns and asked to vote for the project and to sign up if they wanted to help with the project. Maybe my next visit to Cambodia I will have time to get to local market and pick some up for souvenirs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2007

In a couple of days, video bloggers Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson will be in Cambodia doing some work with Project Hope International to help them document the work they're doing to rehabilitate people involved in human trafficking. My holy grail would be something ongoing along the lines of the project in India. Click To Play.

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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. The camp took place in Cha-am, Petchburi, Thailand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2010

Somaly Mam , Cambodia woman, is an anti-slavery activist and survivor fighting for victims all over the world. Human Trafficking is a huge issue around the world, especially in Cambodia. I noticed her tweet tonight after Spenser Brodsky's tweet about my birthday campaign connected me to her. She graduates this year!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2007

Starting this week, you can vote for the best NetSquared Innovation Fund Award nominated projects until Saturday, April 14th at Noon PDT. You can cast your ballot for the projects that you think most effectively use the social web for social change. The complete list of projects can be found here. Creative Commons suggests.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

During the America's Giving Challenge, when we dropped into 5th place and I thought the race was over, Jen activated her supportive network with this beautiful post, " To Cambodia With Love." I was going to blog it on BlogHer for my next deadline, but Jen raised what we she needed in 24 hours. s basic needs. The children???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

This is so much what I'd love to see happen in Cambodia - to see a video of daily life in a developing country through the eyes of people who actually live there. I'd sure love an opportunity to spend a whole day in a room with Jay Dedman and Ryan Hodson shoulder-to-shoulder and learn about this project and more video making skills.

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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. Tuan , project manager, for the Fund for Shared Insight. Melinda Tuan is the project manager at the Fund for Shared Insight. Photo by LIFT. What have you learned?

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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. He just emailed me to let me know that he got a promotion.

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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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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

This charity also has offices in India , Nepal , and Tanzania operates its own projects and supports partners in Tanzania, India, and Nepal and works on behalf of children in places like the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Pakistan, Peru, Cambodia, China, and Bangladesh. Its unique way of working is project management heavy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2005

While doing research on the Web for the course content, I stumbled upon an article called " A Field Guide to Cross Cultural Projects " which lead me to an educational technology integration model called CultureQuest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

August 31st: Cambodia Bloggers Awards Ceremony. As many of you may have already read, part of my project budget was to include video blogging camera kits to give as prizes or awards to encourage video bloggers. I figured it would have a better life in Cambodia since there was a presentation about podcasting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

I wrote about some of the challenges about using these laptops in Cambodia (primarily - can't load KhmerOS on them because the screen is too small) and you can' t designate the recipient or the country even. Nonetheless, I decided to make a donation to the project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2011

I’ve had the opportunity to work in Canada, Australia, Cambodia, Romania, India, UK, and Africa and enjoy the extra dimension of understanding different cultures as part of the instructional and learning process. Reflection on your past practice is a great way to start a new project that builds on the same skills and ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2015

Case in point: In 2014, Noah Wong visited Cambodia and India and discovered kids his own age (and younger) were growing up in prisons. It’s awesome) it’s so easy to help make their campaign a successful one in three key ways: Help them research and focus their project. Help them set up and manage their campaign.

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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. The Charity for Change project is another example where charitable giving is embedded in the curriculum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2006

Attention anyone who has asked me to donate money or time to their project. Until October 31st, all projects on GlobalGiving will be competing for $75,000 in prizes. The choice is up to you because the project that generates the most donations will receive the $50,000 grand prize. You can read about her experience here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Yesterday, I spent the afternoon with the Sharing Foundation's founder, Dr. Nancy Hendrie, a retired pediatrician in her seventies to work on a couple of projects and get ready for the final phase of the our America's GIving Challenge campaign. In Cambodia, Dr. Hendrie has gradually hired and mentored fifty-seven Cambodians who???ve

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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

AUGUST 14, 2007

That's from tonight's opening launch party of the Nonprofits Commons in Second Life, TechSoup's project in Second Life. More about the project here. I am bringing a couple of Second Life t-shirts to Cambodia, thanks to Jeska Linden. Ruby Sinreich did an excellent job of live blogging.

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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. Our projected launch date is Fall 2007 (late September or early October). Via my flickr stream. My best photograph was of three monks collecting offerings in Roteang Village.

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