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Meet Beth Kanter and I at BlogHer and Making Media Connections

Have Fun - Do Good

I love how blogging connects you with people who have like-minded interests all over the world, but nothing beats meeting people in person. We'll also be at the, "Blogging Birds of a Feather Meet-Up: Green/Social Change" on Friday, July 18th at the BlogHer Conference in San Francisco along with BlogHer Green Editor , Green LA Girl.

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How Are Your 2008 Activist Resolutions Going?

Have Fun - Do Good

We're half way through 2008, so I thought I'd share how mine are going, and check in on yours. Challenge for the rest of 2008: I'm feeling a bit discouraged about what feels like a lack of progress in the situation. Challenge for rest of 2008: I only have 6 more interviews for 2008. My resolutions were to: 1.

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My life as an (almost) ex-Technology Consultant

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I got to be a geek, and feel like I was really making a difference in the workings of organizations, and, hopefully, in people’s lives. I want to more directly work with people and organizations, primarily focused around faith and spirituality. I want to see people’s real faces, and hear their real voices.

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Try Eating for $4 a Day. Join The Hunger Challenge

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Or that 34 million people in the United States live on a food stamp budget? Last year, 6 food bloggers and recipe developers tried to eat 3 meals on $3 per day during the 2008 San Francisco Food Bank's Hunger Challenge. BlogHer is a media sponsor of The Hunger Challenge. food bank hunger food stamp blogger

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Join the 29-Day Giving Challenge: Change Lives One Gift at a Time

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On March 19th, 2008, after spending 8 days in the hospital related to her multiple sclerosis, Cami Walker decided to give away one thing each day for 29 days : "I decided to do the 29-Day Giving Challenge as an experiment. As of this writing, 128 people have joined. Visit 29-Day Giving Challenge. And so I have begun the challenge."

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Giving When You're Unemployed: It Could Make You Happier and Wealthier

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A September 2007 Ode magazine article, Giving Makes Us Happy , describes a 60-year study by Paul Wink of Wellesley College that followed the lives of about 200 people. One of the findings was that many of the people who said they were happy had, "generativity--the ability to give to others." Show appreciation for the people you love.

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How Can You Make An Impact?

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"So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves but each other." -- President-elect Obama's acceptance speech November 4, 2008 In her post today, Congratulations President-elect Obama: Now, BlogHers, what will YOU do to change America?

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