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Meet A Cambodian BlogHer: Sopheap Chak

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She is also a terrific live blogger! I am grateful for her detailed notes from the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. This was a trip to bring urban young people to experience life in a rural area and to deliver school supplies for children who live in the province and are very poor. How come there are not so many BlogHers in Cambodia?

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Submit Your Children of the Recession Story to Katie Couric

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Yesterday I represented BlogHer on a conference call with bloggers from the Silicon Valley Moms Blog, and Katie Couric. Couric wanted our help getting the word out about the issues being covered in CBS Reports' new series, Children of the Recession. Katie Couric CBS News children news

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Where are the twenty-something or GEN-Y Bloggers Who Are Writing About Social Change and Nonprofits?

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I attended the " Twenty-Something Meet Up " at the BlogHer Conference. Julia Smith, who blogs at the idealist and was in the room asked "Where are the twenty something/millennial bloggers writing about social change, activism, and nonprofits?" There are lots of twenty-something bloggers and gen-y bloggers.

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Jen Lemen Raises Over $3,000 in 24 Hours for Rwanda Project

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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. I first met Jen at BlogHer in Chicago last summer at the Global Women's panel. The children???s Here's a summary of her plan. s basic needs.

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Why is this Cambodian Orphan Wearing A Creative Commons T-Shirt?

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I launched a bloggers campaign and Twitter Wall of Fame as part of the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge. (To Nast who writes a placeblog called BlogWindsor and Femilicious at BlogHer this summer. At the time, I was raising money to support the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. Cambodia4kids Flickr Photos.

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5 Blogs for Blog Day

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Today, August 31st, is Blog Day , a day for bloggers to recommend 5 new blogs to their readers, "preferably blogs that are different from their own culture, point of view and attitude." Confessions of a Pioneer Woman I heard about this blog at this year's BlogHer Conference. When I travel, I like to visit the local cupcake bakery.

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Give One, Get One: One Laptop Per Child.

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Even better, the green laptops would match the video blogging kits that Ryanne Hodson and Jay Dedman brought over the month before I brought the same kits to the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. So, maybe they will make it easier for people who want to support specific schools and children. TechSoup Blog also reports.

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