Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

The eighth guest blogger in my have fun, do good series is Beth Terry. How many do I score for each small company I discover doing good: reducing their waste and creating ingenious products to help us reduce ours? Beth has been living plastic-free since 2007 and blogs about her adventures at FakePlasticFish.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

I aggregated web sites for dance groups, dance companies, etc. In the nonprofit sector, there were not many bloggers in 2004. I also followed bloggers who were not in the nonprofit space. Anyone could volunteer to aggregate links in their field on their server - and would be linked to the main library on Switzerland.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

Later that summer, I had the honor of being interviewed by Ponzi at BlogHer. icanhascheezburger Ben Huh presented a fantastic visual, story-oriented, and funny presentation about his company. The topics covered: citizen journalist debate (bloggers versus journalist), the echo chamber, ROI of blogging, trolls, a-list , and civility.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

Nedra Weinreich, Spare Change Blog Nedra Weinreich was one of the first nonprofit tagged blogs that I discovered while browsing the blogher blogroll a few months back. the same tools that companies like Apple or Nike would use. Unfortunately, there are not a lot of other bloggers writing specifically about social marketing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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?" The question. " was raised. I left room inspired to compile a living list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

You don't necessarily see women keynote at technology conferences (well accept for women focused technology conferences like blogher ), but Geoff was trying hard ensure a gender balanced program and succeeded. more like the Berkman Center Thursday evening blogger meetups I used to attend from 2005-2007. This is just a sampling.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 1, 2011

Last fall, I hosted a Have Fun, Do Good series where 12 bloggers shared how they have fun and do good. Before pursuing her own passions full-time, she consulted for ten years for companies such as Gap Inc., The first post is by Jennifer Lee, author of The Right-Brain Business Plan: A Creative, Visual Map for Success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2007

I am sitting here amazed that we were able to meet the campaign goal for the Cambodia Bloggers Summit in about week's time. Jen Lemen and Mom2Amara graciously donated t-shirts and I got three business cards from tech companies with an offer of t-shirts. This young Cambodian blogger working in Singapore contributed $5 !

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

We went and had a victory party and then woke up the next day and realized that it didn't really matter because the company that wanted to build had gone to the state legislature to get them to pass a law to undercut the local ordinance that would protect our water. I think it's one of the, if not the largest mining company in the world.

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