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NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Beth has been living plastic-free since 2007 and blogs about her adventures at FakePlasticFish.com. The eighth guest blogger in my have fun, do good series is Beth Terry. She is also an advisor to the Plastic Pollution Coalition and a contributing editor for BlogHer.com.

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JULY 30, 2007

They are organizing the first " Cambodian Blogger Summit (aka Cloggers Summit) " to take place 30-31 August 2007 in Cambodia. Identify and interview 3-5 amazing Cambodian BlogHers and post on BlogHer site. at 14 different universities in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap with more than 1700 students participating.

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AUGUST 31, 2008

Photo by Christine As you know by now, Hurricane Gustav looks even more destructive than Katrina (see this round up from Lisa Stone, BlogHer , of the news reports and links). Three years ago, in the wake of the devastating storm, social media and others started organizing online. If you want to volunteer for a page, see the wiki to-do list.

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DECEMBER 9, 2007

Photo by Life in Africa For this week's BlogHer Holiday Guide post, I needed to come up with a list of nonprofit organizations or causes that BlogHer readers may consider making a donation to as part of their year-end giving. I have two favorites: The Sharing Foundation which supports children in Cambodia and Creative Commons.

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MARCH 4, 2009

Fellow BlogHer Contributing Editor, Beth Kanter, writes about the fundraising Twitter campaign for CARE happening in conjunction with the film in her post, Tweetathon To Honor International Women's Day and To Spread The Word About A Powerful Noise Live. The film is being presented by Fathom Events, CARE , ONE , and the U.N.

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JULY 2, 2008

At the end of December 2007, I posted about creating activist resolutions for the New Year based on Latoya Peterson's activist resolutions post on Racialicious. We're half way through 2008, so I thought I'd share how mine are going, and check in on yours. My resolutions were to: 1. Gotta be particular about what I say yes to.

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AUGUST 21, 2007

BlogHer (where I am a Contributing Editor) launched a year-long campaign, BlogHers Act, at their 2007 conference this summer. During BlogHers Act, BlogHers will work to make a measurable improvement in "global health" issues. Bloghers Act Bloghersact Blogher women health blog

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AUGUST 20, 2012

I started contributing to Global Voices where I did blogging roundups from Cambodia. In 2007, 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. Here’s a video and blog post I wrote for Blogher back then.

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OCTOBER 24, 2009

You don't necessarily see women keynote at technology conferences (well accept for women focused technology conferences like blogher ), but Geoff was trying hard ensure a gender balanced program and succeeded. more like the Berkman Center Thursday evening blogger meetups I used to attend from 2005-2007.

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MAY 26, 2008

That all changed after the massive and devastating raids in New Bedford, MA in early 2007. Cross-posted at BlogHer Though I always had a personal interest in technology and social media, I didn't know how to integrate it into my more traditional organizing portfolio.

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APRIL 14, 2008

On behalf of BlogHer, I will be conducting a podcast interview with Governor Whitman on Friday morning, while she is at the Conference, as part BlogHer's ongoing Earth Day is Every Day coverage this month. The interview will be available afterwards as a podcast on BlogHer. What would you like me to ask her?

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