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AUGUST 26, 2009

Last year, 6 food bloggers and recipe developers tried to eat 3 meals on $3 per day during the 2008 San Francisco Food Bank's Hunger Challenge. To participate, email the San Francisco Food Bank at: HungerChallenge@SFFB.org. You don't have to be a blogger, or live in the Bay Area to take the Challenge).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2007

" She has is supporting a campaign to Free Monem , a blogger arrested by Egyptians security forces on April 15th. In an email, Mary suggests taking these actions: As the world celebrates World Press Freedom Day an Egyptian blogger, Abdel Monem Mahmoud , sits in jail, his only crime his desire for a more open Egyptian society.

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AUGUST 12, 2007

My Logo, Cambodian Style by Virak Now that I finished the campaign to raise the money to get myself to Cambodia to attend the Cambodia Bloggers Summit, I've been very busy preparing instructional materials. I can't wait to share what I learn with the Blogher Community). I'm very excited to be teaching Web2.0 " Ah, I have no logo.

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AUGUST 7, 2007

Michele Martin, Bamboo Project Michele Martin is one of my favorite BlogHers in the nonprofit space. The goal of the project is to help bloggers build traffic for and community at their blogs. I discovered some wonderful nonprofit BlogHers by checking out the bloghers who participating in this learning experiment.

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AUGUST 21, 2008

Ask bloggers to review/write about your book You can find a list of the Top 100 Blogs on Technorati as a place to start, but all of their audiences may not be appropriate for your topic. Before you draft your blogger outreach email, check out my 10 Tips for Asking Bloggers to Write About Your Cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2006

I'm just back after a ten-day business trip beginning with Blogher and ending with NCDD (Dialogue and Deliberation). Joistke is tested Option 4, guest bloggers. So, if the Internet connection holds out, I might get a elder member of my extended family to be my guest blogger. So, maybe this is be an intergenerational vlog.

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JULY 29, 2005

I'm live blogging at blogher and in about an hour and half, I'll be attending a training on how we're supposed to be tagging our posts and some points about writing style, etc. Her is the description of my task: All social and networking portions of BlogHer are being blogged all day by our BlogHer-on-the-street, Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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OCTOBER 10, 2009

Allow email subscription ( Feedburner or Feedblitz will help you do this). Put a prompt to subscribe by rss and email at the top of your blog. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2006

At this summer's Blogher Conference, I had the opportunity to hear Lauren Gelman , Associate Director of Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society , and Dean of State of Play Academy present at the blogging communities session called, " So, You Have This Crazy Idea." just email her at gelman at Stanford dot edu.

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AUGUST 9, 2006

At Blogher, I attended a session on edublogging and one of the session leaders was Barbara Sawhill from Oberlin Language Lab. While catching up on my email, I found this wonderful post from Teacher Sol about how she is using SKYPE to have a world wide conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

The question came from a diversity consultant while we were discussing how young people today are being brought up on social networks AND some statistics about age and email/social network use. I referenced Liza Sabater's Brown Bloggers meetups, but could not point to any studies or stats. it just doesn't depend on them, bloggers say.

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DECEMBER 8, 2009

You can work the night shift and respond to email in the morning. Buddy up with women bloggers. BlogHer – a social networking site for women who blog – is a great place to find women writers who may care about your political and/or social issue. You can have four kids and read a blog during nap time.&#

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2006

I'm finally back home after an extended business trip that began with the Blogher 2006 conference. What would be the result if we could mobilize the blogher network? The issue of whether to raise money via their blogs was also discussed during the Blogher Community Assistance Panel.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2008

Lemme know and keep adding to the Changeblogger list in the comments of this post, by emailing me at britt@brittbravo.com, or using the tag, "changeblogger". Should it be virtual, or in person? In one place or multiple? A conference or unconference?

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

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. You can sign up on the page to get an email notification for more details when the campaign launches in November. TechSoup Blog also reports.

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MAY 14, 2008

It isn't difficult for me to care and want to help a cause, or an individual entrepreneur on Kiva , or a reader who emails me for advice. It said, "The finest pleasure is kindness to others--Jean de la Bruyère." I'm sure they'll post their reflections in the week ahead. A Day Late and a Dollar Short and Dream Big!

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DECEMBER 13, 2005

One of the most exciting things for me was to finally meet Tharum (a Cambodian blogger) and pictured above face-to-face. Tharum and I have been in communication via our blogs, IM, and email for over a year now. It was very similar to the way the blogher opening plenary was facilitated. Technorati Tags: globals

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MAY 20, 2009

Yesterday I represented BlogHer on a conference call with bloggers from the Silicon Valley Moms Blog, and Katie Couric. If you know any children who are suffering from the effects of the recession, email their story to recession@cbs.com with the subject line, "CBS REPORTS: Children of the Recession."

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 12, 2008

You receive dozens of letters and emails asking you to support all kinds of causes, and the folks sending out the letters and email are hoping that when you open their message, even though you weren't planning on it, something will tug at your heartstrings in that moment, and you will write a check, or click a PayPal button.

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JULY 26, 2006

I'm gearing up to do some live blogging at blogher and NCDD. At last year's blogher, someone said that live bloggers need to carry around a hip flask in their tool box! However, now that I've recently upgraded my camera phone - I will play with using email to flickr option. publically.

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OCTOBER 31, 2007

David Eckoff shared a story about his email addiction and how he kicked the habit and got his life under control. I'm going to try this: Put an auto responder on your email telling people that due to email volume and deadlines you only read and respond to email between 11-12 and 4-5 and if it is urgent to call you on your mobile phone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Any techie who has ever tried to explain something in email will just think this is the coolest thing ever. is coming " Bloggers go to the SF Symphony! Here's a roundup of all the live blog posts from the recent BlogHer conference neatly organized by session. Some New (to me) NpTech Bloggers - Welcome!

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AUGUST 31, 2006

Each student will create a Blogger blog during class. Britt Bravo writes for three blogs: her personal blog, Have Fun • Do Good , NetSquared , and for BlogHer , where she is a Nonprofit and NGO Contributing Editor. I cannot accept or acknowledge notifications sent by email or phone. She also produces her own Big Vision Podcast.

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MARCH 27, 2009

Danielle Brigida (Social Media ROI Poetry Slam) is leading the National Wildlife Federation’s social media and measuring their efforts not by gaining email addresses but by relationships, striving for at least five new contacts per day. The email is only one means of maintaining that relationship.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2006

I interviewed Tuesday Gutierrez from SaveGuimaras over at blogher. s good about Friendster is that everytime a "member" of your group posts a new entry on your blog, you receive it on your email/ and you see it right away on your Friendster page. What should you bring forward? The Case Study. Its pure luck too.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 31, 2006

Two projects supporting women bloggers launched yesterday, the new Blogher network and the Young Caucasus Women Project. This week the adult mentor blogger, Joitske Hulsebosch posted her answer to the question, "Who in the World Would you Really Like to Send an Email/Letter to, or to Read Your Blog Posts and Why?"

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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?" Weren't we all just breaking through into email marketing 4 years ago?)

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 22, 2008

By the midpoint, around day 13, my life was so much better, and I was so inspired that I decided to throw up a website and send out an email to some of my friends, about 30 people, and said, "Hey, I've been doing this interesting thing where you give away 29 gifts in 29 days, and it's really helping me. So, I decided to go ahead and do it.

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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. In addition, I'd like to thank Britt Bravo who gave her covered AOL laptop bag to schlep home the t-shirts from BlogHer and to Gina Trapani for donating her extra t-shirts. Photo by Shel Israel. We made a video.

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MARCH 24, 2008

I wrote about the experience on BlogHer last week. In the last few days, they have taken what they learned in the workshop and some additional email guidance from Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson and hope to change civic engagement in New Orleans One Video Blog Post at a time. " Why?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2005

And, I stumbled upon the blogher conference with a session entitled " How To Get Naked Online " in July. UPDATE: I came back into my office this rainy Saturday morning to wrap the gift for my daughter's friend's 4th B-day party this afternoon and made the mistake of checking email.

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MAY 26, 2008

Wells, Blogger and Community Organizer "We need to treat many of our social tools like door knocking, if someone comments on our site, we should take that as a hello, and use it to open a door to a potential relationship with a new leader, member, or supporter." Cross-posted at BlogHer " Nicola M.

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