Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2013

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 book also has a social good purpose.

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MARCH 8, 2011

Tom Watson has written about a remarkable woman in Cambodia, Mu Sochu. I’d like to introduce you to Keo Savon, an orphan from Cambodia from the same orphanage as our daughter. Education is the path out of poverty in Cambodia. To sponsor a college student through the Sharing Foundation is $1,000.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Click To Play Whenever I've travel over to Cambodia, I have the opportunity to check two large suitcases up to 70 pounds each. Since I could not visit Cambodia without carrying over some items for the Sharing Foundation, I had a third checked piece of luggage, a portable crib for orphanage.

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JUNE 4, 2007

Jay Dedman sent the box of leftover Vloggercon T-Shirts from 2006 and they were hand carried over the Cambodia and presented to the college students being sponsored by the Sharing Foundation. Now, next step is to get a couple of cameras, some help with skill transfer, and start a video blog from Cambodia. stay tuned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2007

at 14 different universities in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap with more than 1700 students participating. They are organizing the first " Cambodian Blogger Summit (aka Cloggers Summit) " to take place 30-31 August 2007 in Cambodia. tools) can make their study, work, and life easier. Keynote welcome. Timing is running out.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Click To Play Here a round up of some the fabulous women Bloghers in Cambodia and Linux Chix that I met. It had nothing to do with saving the world or strengthening Cambodia???s s democracy - it was just about showing the beauty of her country, sharing her experiences in school, and learning from her peers and fellow students.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2012

I know this first hand because my family and I have been honored to support the college education of two young Cambodia women through the Sharing Foundation ‘s education program. College tuition in Cambodia compared to the US is not that much, for many young Cambodian women it is beyond their grasp.

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JANUARY 4, 2007

Many of you already know about my first personal fundraising campaign to raise money to cover the cost of the college tutition and living expenses for Leng Sopharath, an orphan in Cambodia. She is one of 18 students being sponsored for college through The Sharing Foundation's program. More background here ).

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APRIL 29, 2005

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. I am hoping that I can set up something with my son's class and the kids she is working in Cambodia over the next year. I emailed her.

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JANUARY 28, 2008

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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NOVEMBER 29, 2010

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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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. The t-shirts were delivered to the students in May - here's a blog post about it. Click To Play.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Maybe my next visit to Cambodia I will have time to get to local market and pick some up for souvenirs. Here's what Lux wrote about the Angkun: angkunh: as we approached the closing of the summit, one beautiful student asked ???why It became clear that social media in Cambodia means "any media that can solve social issues."

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APRIL 5, 2005

I will be leading several workshops called " Exploring Cambodian Culture " at the Sage School (preK-8 school for gifted students) during "Cluster Week." The site defines it as: CultureQuests allow students to examine, understand, and appreciate diverse cultures, including the student's own culture.

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AUGUST 21, 2008

Two years ago, my family and I made a commitment to sponsor Leng Sopharath, a young woman from Cambodia, for her college education through the Sharing Foundation 's education program. The Sharing Foundation (and some friends) covered her medical expenses and she is recuperating in the student house that we rent for our college students.

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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. It has just 20 UK-based staff.

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MAY 17, 2012

It includes personal testimonies, photographs, and artifacts. Another exhibit looks at past massacres in Armenia, Bosnia, Cambodia, The Holocaust, and other places of the world where genocide has taken place. The main exhibition tells the history of Rwanda leading up to the genocide, what happened, and the aftermath.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

August 31st: Cambodia Bloggers Awards Ceremony. The idea for the kits came from the video blogging community when I blogged about wanting to see more video blogging in Cambodia and through the generosity of Coffee with Doug video blog, I sent over 3 camera kits with Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson to the Sharing Foundation's computer school.

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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. A group of graduate students from Berkeley were coming to Kenya. Some weeks later, we got an email from one of the students, freshly in Kenya.

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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. We're building a website for students all over the world that profiles five different human rights awards winners. Via my flickr stream. I'm so honored.

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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 The selected students are paid from their first day in sewing school.

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DECEMBER 27, 2007

My husband and I adopted two beautiful children, Harry and Sara, from Cambodia. But, also felt sad when thought of the many children in Cambodia who would not have the same opportunities as our children do. These students are so dedicated that some meet on their own to study on weekends. Sign up here. Why am I doing this?

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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. I baked a lot of cupcakes with my mom for those bake sales. But it doesn't involve baking cupcakes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2008

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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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

DECEMBER 29, 2006

She earns a monthly wage working for a sewing school and shop, a vocational program run by the Sharing Foundation that trains young women so they can earn a sustainable living wage with a home-based sewing business or get a better paying job in Cambodia???s This could make a big difference for thousands of children in Cambodia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2006

Almost ten years ago, she founded a nonprofit organization, The Sharing Foundation , dedicated to meeting the physical, emotional, educational, and medical needs of orphaned and seriously- disadvantaged children in Cambodia. While things have changed here in the US, in Cambodia, women and girls face tremendous odds trying to get an education.

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JANUARY 6, 2009

Hendrie who is in Cambodia right now. The money raised from my birthday campaign would help us hire one of the college students that the Sharing Foundation has sent to school to teach the kids.

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JANUARY 28, 2008

Computer classes are held every morning utilizing donated laptops and desktops (that are hand-carried over by Dr. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

This past year took me to London to teach nonprofit leaders at workshops on digital strategy hosted by LinkedIn and Social Misfits, and to Cambodia to teach a series of workshops for Women’s Rights NGOs hosted by Wake International.

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AUGUST 26, 2007

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

Leng Sopharath is one of 19 college students being sponsored for college through a program of the Sharing Foundation , an ngo that works directly with local officials, orphanages, and NGOs in Cambodia to identify and carry out projects which improve the lives of children. The photo above came in today's letter from Leng Sopharath.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

But when I realized it would take a long time before a small NGO working in a country, like say, Cambodia, might be able to purchase a small number of them (less than 100) to outfit a school, I was disappointed. Tharum was disappointed too. And, we can even load them up with KhmerOS !).

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JULY 6, 2011

I also learned that one of the design personas was an individual who was therapist who needed to keep a professional wall between her work and clients – much the same issue that educators have in friending students or their parents. Not everyone I want to share with is on Google+. No family members or close friends yet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2007

The Internet connection in Cambodia is small pipeline and slow. The other highlight of my day was meeting Leng Sopharath, the college student our family sponsors through the Sharing Foundation's program. In contrast to my blogging friends, I asked the college students if they knew what a blog was. Typepad login page won't load!

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2007

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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DECEMBER 8, 2006

Having implemented a successful campaign to raise the money to support a young college student named Leng Sopharath in Cambodia that raised $872 using the ChipIn widget, I set up a charity badge over at Network for Good to support the Sharing Foundation's educational programs which provide educational opportunities for over 1,300 children.

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