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You Are Never Too Old To Change The World!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nancy Hendrie and Tep Vuthea Photo from flickr. When I approached an accountant to file our nonprofit incorporation papers, he thought we were just a bunch of old ladies in tennis shoes and wouldn???t be it Cambodia, Africa or Haiti.??? Meet Dr. Nancy Hendrie, a retired pediatrician in her seventies, who didn???t

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Why I’m Scared of the SOPA Bill by Jim Fruchterman

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by DonkeyHotey. Or file a DMCA notice. Now, apparently, we can file a counter-notice. We work in North Africa Latin America, Asia: most of the places where large scale human rights abuses are going on. Note from Beth: I ran into Jim Fruchterman at the Social Innovation Summit last week in Palo Alto.

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Interview with Jonathon Colman: Social Media Secrets from a Green Geek

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

m also a returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Burkina Faso, West Africa), and am even now preparing to move from Washington, DC to Seattle immediately following a two-month fellowship in Australia. s taken us a long time to build up credible, authoritative profiles and groups on sites like Care2 , Digg , Facebook , Flickr , and StumbleUpon. ???