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A Homecoming Trip To Cambodia

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I raised money to help sponsor the first Cambodian Bloggers conference and raised a lot of the money via Twitter as Shel Israel noted in his book, Twitterville. I also used Twitter to get 300 t-shirts donated to bring over for the conference. Leng graduated from college and is married. My children will meet her for the first time.

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Faith-Based Organization Fundraising: 5 Top Tips Based On The Latest Trends

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As a means to aid with post-covid recovery, the Israel Tennis and Education Centers set up an emergency relief fund to serve Israeli children in need of essential services. If you’re looking to fill a funding gap, raise money for an unexpected emergency, or get an innovative idea off the ground, crowdfunding is another viable strategy.

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Happy Tweetsgiving!

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Tweetsgiving offers a number of ways to express your gratitude online and offline , including different events around the globe.

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Reflections from Mashable Summer of Social Good Conference

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The morning included a speech by Kari Dunn Saratovsky who talked offline/online connections as well as some of the challenges that charities face such as cause fatigue and slacktivism. . Was it all hype? . This was the culmination of the summer long initiative to help raise money.

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The Last Blogpotomac: A New Community Rises from the Ashes

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Geoff Livingston invited me to keynote the conference along with Shel Israel , author of Twitterville. This made think of whether trust is only built from knowing someone offline or not. I think the above example shows it might go both ways.

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Twitteracy (Twitter Literacy)

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Rheingold has a mix of people he knows offline as well as virtual friends. Let's dissect Rheingold principles of using Twitter effectively: To oversimplify, I think successful use of Twitter means knowing how to tune the network of people you follow, and how to feed the network of people who follow you.

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Twitter, Facebook, Chris Brogan and 81 other people send Cambodian girl to college! If we go over goal 100%, we'll send a young man to college too!

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My goal was to ask online and offline for $10 gifts and hope that 100 people donate the $1,000 needed. This might seem so 1980's, but I ran into Chris at a local social networking event last night. Owyang and I asked him to support my campaign in person. I was initially doing it through Facebook and thought it would take three or four weeks.

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