Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2008

and video blogging workshops in Cambodia. Mean Lux emailed to let me know that they had taken the cameras up to a Youth Festival and Training in a remote corner of Cambodia called Pursat! Photo by MeanLux. Last August, I was invited organizers of the Cambodian Bloggers Summit to give a keynote and teach Web2.0 Videos to come shortly!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2005

I will be working with K-2 students and most likely be in a one-computer classroom that does not have an Internet connection. Using the Internet for access to experts, other student helpers, and cultural ambassadors. Creating and designing Web sites to publish student work. Using desktop videoconferencing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

Starting to get reports of podcasts, videos blogs, and photo blogs from Cambodia. Norbert is a long-time ex-pat and perhaps the first person to bring Internet access to Cambodia via a Unix to DOS program and using a dial up modem. Norbert Klein has started a photoblog - I love the photo of family on the motorbike.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2007

steps and Internet access permitting I will do a report via Skype from Cambodia when I'm there in less ten days! I was honored to be interviewed on the August 14th edition of the Fundraising Success Podcast about personal fundraising. Stephen and I had so much fun he invited me to do a series about Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2006

Image from Internet Village Motoman project in Ratanakiri Village in Cambodia The above image is from the Ratanakiri Village project in Cambodia. The village is located in a remote region of Cambodia's northeast. There are no highways, no electricity, and villagers life a simple life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

Click To Play Note: I am now home with fast Internet access and extreme jet lag. August 31st: Cambodia Bloggers Awards Ceremony. I figured it would have a better life in Cambodia since there was a presentation about podcasting. Here is what he wrote: I want a digital camera for helping attract more tourism for Cambodia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

I wanted to make sure to I blogged this before I take off for Cambodia. Expect a few more posts over the weekend pending Internet access while I'm waiting for my connection to Singapore from LA. Two upcoming workshops/conferences to put on your fall schedule.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2007

Many people in Cambodia are afraid to express their ideas about human rights and other issues. How come there are not so many BlogHers in Cambodia? There are women blogging in Cambodia. Of course, there is problem with Internet access. Not many women like to study technology and computer use in Cambodia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2007

So, I starting worrying about the Internet connection in Cambodia. The very calm Preetamrai , the Southeast Asian Editor for Global Voices who is also attending and leading a workshop at the Cambodia Bloggers Summit told me about his very cool new app from Techsmith, JingProject. Also, I'm a visual learner. Yet to be created).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2007

I put it in a pile and left at my computer desk, hoping that my Internet access would return and I could donate online. When I finally got my Internet access back, there was an email from Lawrence Lessig that said: Beth, Last week, I sent you a letter (yes! I wet my finger and rubbed the ink and it smeared.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2006

re away from the Internet? Those of us large metro areas in the US are never far away from a coffee shop with wi-fi or high speed Internet access. I remember this from my time in Cambodia where I was an hour's drive from the nearest Internet cafe while teaching ESL in the Roteang Village School english program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2005

I'm also wondering about removing barriers to podcasting for nonprofits in countries without much infrastructure, like Cambodia. Podcasting Without An Ipod, Internet Access, or Electricity 2. Feedback would be appreciated. Conversation with Andy Carvin about Podcasting in the Third World.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

David Saski from Global Voices and who is running the Rising Voices project will also be at the Cambodia Bloggers Summit in Phnom Penh next week. He's over in Thailand now, but was glad to see he had Internet access - looks like free wifi too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2007

The Internet connection is very slow that I am on and typepad won't load. This is my first trip to Cambodia during rainy season, so I was really amused the huge downpour and thunderstorm (the porch was protected). I'm finding the Internet connections very very slow. Originally uploaded by cambodia4kidsorg.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2007

My thoughts are still half-way around the world in Cambodia and, in the US, we don't have the added challenge of a slow Internet connection. In Cambodia, NGO staffers were eager to learn about Web 2.0 and find creative challenge ways to get beyond the key barrier of a slow Internet connection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Flickr Photo by Villoks Many people around the world are supporting the Monks in Burma by wearing red t-shirts today or participating in vigils like this one in Cambodia outside the Burma embassy. So, while it may very difficult to find Internet content from Burma, it is getting onto the Internet.

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OCTOBER 6, 2011

In her former life she was a web developer for the private sector, with a stint in humanitarian aid analysis, and a couple years overseas working for a women's micro-finance program in Cambodia and Kenya.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2005

Although most people in the world do not have cell phones I think it's safe to say that generally people will have access to a cell phone years before they will get access to an ipod+computer+high speed internet. Technorati Tags: cambodia , nptech Eric: I have a question for you. Do you know why there is limited adoption?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2007

And in response to the question of "intangible value," I think it's about being able to access as many people as possible when your version of a Katrina hits or you have a window of opportunity where the issue you're working on hits the headlines. " Back to SalesForce and Cambodia work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

NTEN Members get exclusive access to ask questions and hear them answered, for free! I got on the Internet in the early days when it was social media. Then I discovered the Internet and became the community builder for Arts Wire, an online network for artists that used a unix-based text conferencing system called Caucus.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I have two favorites: The Sharing Foundation which supports children in Cambodia and Creative Commons. E-waste and access to technology to those who could not otherwise afford it. FreeGeek in Portland solves two problems. Watch this engaging video and then go make a contribution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

" (Interesting that KhmerOS had a table at the Cambodia Fair Trade Expo ). Has this view changed by the pervasive Internet access? " The discussion reminded of the one I heard in the UK and read later on the Circuit Riders list " Is Open Source Fair Trade for Nonprofits ?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2008

Unfortunately, many don't have regular Internet access (or credit cards) so their support doesn't count towards the contest. In Cambodia, rural children often die from preventable infection and disease. Cambodia's child mortality rate is among the world's highest. Meet Bora Vuth , Cambodian attending college in the US.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2007

Many people in Phnom Penh know how to use the computers and the Internet, but in the rural areas many people do not. How many people can use Internet in Cambodia? Some organizations have no Internet access and in the provinces, there is no access to the Internet. ITC is the new knowledge in Cambodia.

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MARCH 2, 2007

So oftentimes if a woman is doing something that has economic value, it often gets undervalued in society, and in particular in these kinds of countries and communities, where she may be uneducated, have very limited access to the market. The likelihood of exploitation is much higher.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

I've had the opportunity to present this workshop in Romania , UK , Cambodia , (for a mostly Eastern European audience ) and all over the US for different types of nonprofits, different levels, and different perspectives (communications staff, program staff, social entrepreneurs, senior leadership,etc). .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2005

Tharum started his blog in June 2004 while a student at the National University of Management and working for the Open Forum for Cambodia , a Cambodian NGO devoted to digital divide issues. Tharum became a celebrity blogger when his blog was featured on the front page of the Cambodia Daily (the photo above was taken during that interview).

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NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Jessica is the co-founder, with her husband, Matthew Flannery, of Kiva , a nonprofit that is using the Internet to allow everyday philanthropists, like you and me, to loan money to budding entrepreneurs all over the world. We had an intern go to Cambodia and visit one of the businesses that was supposed to have started a fruit stand.

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