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An Interview with Lorene Straka, Joanna Eng, and Mari Velasco from the Idealist

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When I joined, we were a staff of three, and we're now at 55 in two countries: the US and Argentina. We have started to make our presence known on social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace, and we're encouraging people to use sites like Flickr and YouTube to share their photos and videos with the Idealist network.

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An Interview with Silvia Tolisano of Langwitches Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I grew up in Buenos Aires Argentina with a German/Argentinean father and a German mother. I started creating websites for family, my synagogue, small businesses, sports teams, etc. Silvia Tolisano, Langwitches Blog Tell me about your background? In 1992 I created my first webpage through Prodigy and it snowballed from there.