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JANUARY 20, 2009

The list included BlogHer founders Elisa Camahort Page, Jory Des Jardins, and Lisa Stone. is Vice President of Operations of C3: Colorectal Cancer Coalition and was one of the first nonprofit technology bloggers. Who are your favorite bloggers who write about nonprofits technology? Michelle Murrain. Jordan Viator. Deborah Finn.

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JULY 13, 2008

Are "the best" or "most influential" lists of bloggers a good thing or a bad thing? But in the last month, I've come across three "best of" type women blogger lists. In a recent post on Blogher, Virginia DeBolt mentions the list titled 100 Awesome Webmaster Blogs by and for Women by Jimmy Atkinson.

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APRIL 9, 2008

Jen Lemen is a writer, illustrator, blogger and immigrant advocate living in Silver Spring, Maryland. I first met Jen at BlogHer in Chicago last summer at the Global Women's panel. Georgia Popplewell from Global Voices asked people if they would consider donating their schwag for the Cambodian bloggers conference.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2008

Foko Blog Club, Foko Madagascar Flickr Photo Joan Razafmaharo is an amazing blogger, social change activist, and woman working in Madagascar and other parts of the world. The program is lead by blogger, environmental activist, and TED Fellow Andriankoto Ratozamanana. You can support the effort here ) Cross posted at BlogHer.

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OCTOBER 17, 2008

October 15th was Blog Action Day , a day for bloggers, podcasters and vloggers to write about and raise awareness about an issue. The 2008 DonorsChoose Blogger Challenge for public schools is happening this month. Bloggers compete against each other to raise the most money for specific projects in low-income public schools.

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OCTOBER 10, 2009

Provide a link to a page with bios for bloggers. If your blogging platform doesn't allow you to do that, have bloggers include a one-line bio at the end of their posts. Link to other bloggers Use Google Blog Search , Alltop and Technorati to find blogs that write about similar topics to yours. nonprofit blog activism

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2006

Blogher Lisa Stone interviews Ethan Zukerman and Rebecca MacKinnon, Global s Founders. A stage for global activism? How does this "conversation community" take its next steps, when so many bloggers live in countries that lack a free press? The call is tommorrow, but you can always listen to the audio file. Feedback?

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MAY 23, 2008

*Changeblogger Lists & Directories* Best Green Blogs BlogHer's Blogroll of Social Change and Nonprofit Blogs Corey Pudhorodsky/ 501c3Cast 's Bloglines Good.alltop.com Education.alltop.com Green.alltop.com Nonprofit.alltop.com *Events* Bloggers Unite (online) Carnival for Change (online) We Media Conference (face-to-face) *Prizes* Big Carrot's Blogging (..)

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OCTOBER 28, 2010

World Go Vegan Week (October 24-31, 2010) seems like a perfect time to highlight the sixth contributor to my series of guest posts by bloggers talking about how they have fun and do good. The best ways to follow her are via Twitter ( @ElisaC ) and by all the headline feeds found in her BlogHer profile.

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MARCH 27, 2009

The interesting thing about this effort is that it’s not campaign-based, or a spurt of activity for a defined period of time, but actually an ongoing relationship that can continue to build over the long term, again defined by what is valuable to their supporters.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Set a Time Frame, Track it and Talk about it: Make sure you activate the tracking system or install an external tracking system like site meter, bloglog, or Google Analytics. I interviewed Tuesday Gutierrez from SaveGuimaras over at blogher. Identify 2-3 questions you want to answer from your experiment. Look at your data for answers.

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OCTOBER 22, 2008

Whether they choose to stay an active member of the community online or not, most people on their 29th day when they post say, "I am going to keep doing this. Here are a few bloggers' reflections on their experience taking the Challenge The Painting Project for the 29-Day Giving Challenge is Complete!!! It has really helped me.

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AUGUST 10, 2008

Last month I attended the " Twenty-Something Meet Up " at the BlogHer Conference, facilitated by the fabulous Zandria. "Where are the twenty something/millennial bloggers writing about social change, activism, and nonprofits?" It's been set up as an "open source activism" movement - anything goes.

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MAY 11, 2009

The power of sharing allows individuals to come together in great “clouds” of activity, and allows them to focus their activity around a single task. Without that constant activity, the cloud dissipates, evaporating into nothing at all. I'm struck by this.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2006

What have women bloggers who work in the nonprofit technology space been talking about this past month? A few posts on mobile activism Sparechange blogger, Nedra Weinreich writes about two social activism strategies using mobile phones designed to involve young people.

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MARCH 24, 2008

I wrote about the experience on BlogHer last week. As I mentioned, one of the Day of Service activities was a video blogging workshop for local nonprofits given by Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson. Several weeks before heading down to New Orleans, I kept looking my old video camera in the corner of my office. " Why?

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JUNE 30, 2007

First of all, who identifies with the word "activism"? I decided to find out how to bridge the worlds of performance, cultural organizing and radical activism. I think that after 20 years of nonstop activism, my prescriptives, my medicine for the movement, if you will, would be to really cultivate cultures of appreciation.

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