Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

October 15th was Blog Action Day , a day for bloggers, podcasters and vloggers to write about and raise awareness about an issue. Here are a few examples of some month-long and two-week long online events: Maw Books Blog ran a Blogging and Reading for Darfur campaign last month. The theme for this year was poverty.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

The eighth guest blogger in my have fun, do good series is Beth Terry. For example, instead of getting depressed when I stumbled upon the fact that chewing gum is made from plastic (polyvinyl acetate, to be precise), I felt like I had made a big score.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2006

At Blogher, I attended a session on edublogging and one of the session leaders was Barbara Sawhill from Oberlin Language Lab. This would have been a great example to share with the Dialogue and Deliberation folks during the workshop I did last week. However, I guess there is a down side to skype, as my colleague Mir points out.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 14, 2008

Peace, for example, starts within each one of us. For more information about joining the 29-Day Giving Challenge, go to [link] , and check out what other bloggers are saying about it: Monday was Day 29 for BlogHer Editor Green LA Girl , and today is Day 29 for the Chief Family Officer. It lies with each of us individually.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 12, 2008

For example, they planned on giving $200 out of their annual budget to an organization, or organizations that work on women's health, and violence against women issues, and $50 to an organization, or organizations that work on economic justice and labor issues. Check it out for more holiday giving tips from Nathaniel, and other bloggers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

A couple of examples are the NCDD Blog , Technology In the Arts Conference , and WorldCafe Stewardship Dialogue Blog. A team of "live bloggers" from the ranks of participants are recruited to post ramping up to the conference, assigned to take notes at sessions, and post after the event reflections or roundups. or furl.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2005

But, before I could even begin to play with that idea, I need to blog some examples of nonprofit blogging. While browsing the blogher schedule , I came across Lisa Meyers Brown's blog " The Rhetoric of Me " which is focused on: "What I think about everything.especially nonprofits and social network technology.

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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. Take for example her write up on Games for Change. For example, rather than starting by saying ???We After that, I found myself reading things and thinking ???This

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

While there are some obvious easy tools to get started with first, like Flickr, for example, you have to be ready to invest a little bit of time in some thoughtful experimentation. There's lots of examples in this blog. I interviewed Tuesday Gutierrez from SaveGuimaras over at blogher. What should you bring forward?

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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?" It's not a nonprofit example, but it serves as an interesting case study for nonprofits.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

Some examples of the current projects we are working on include pandemic planning, weather related emergencies and hazardous materials events, including terrorist related events. For example, I have a backcountry stove, freeze dried food and a bunch of gear to keep us fed and warm if we lost power for an extended period of time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

First off, I want to thank Andy Carvin for organizing this day and the ning site and leading by example - showing us how to take an issue and integrate the use of new social media tools! Looks other nptech bloggers and social networks are supporting this effort too! REPORT - Every little BIT helps. Ethnic, racial or gender slurs.

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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. Here's an example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

He goes to list some examples and asks "How many examples do we need to name before we admit that the rules have changed, that the smooth functioning of power has been terrifically interrupted by these other forces, now powers in their own right?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2006

This is a summary of what women bloggers have been talking about in the nonprofit technology space this past month or what I'm dubbing the nptechersphere. Maybe it is part of the gearing up for the upcoming session at Blogher called " Get Deeply Geeky." I will be posting interviews with them in a few weeks, so stay tuned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2008

I wrote about the experience on BlogHer last week. The video bloggers have learned that the school is actually located on top of the Agriculture Street Landfill, an infamous Superfund site in New Orleans what was used as a dump and incinerator site after Hurricane Betsy. " 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. The word naked has been used to describe blogging in a couple recent examples that come to mind. I'm looking forward to attending the How to Be Naked session at BlogHer. Who we are changes depending on where we are.

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