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OCTOBER 10, 2009

Make it easy to put faces and names to blog posts Posts should say, by your name , not by admin , or by the name of your organization. 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. Keep it short.

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MARCH 7, 2011

The fifth guest blogger in my Have Fun, Do Good series is Emily Goligoski. She produces tech entrepreneurship content for the organization Women 2.0 Emily is a w riter and digital strategist who blogs as TheSanFranista. and teaches yoga in San Francisco. You can follow her on Twitter at @emgollie.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2008

"So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves but each other." -- President-elect Obama's acceptance speech November 4, 2008 In her post today, Congratulations President-elect Obama: Now, BlogHers, what will YOU do to change America?

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MAY 5, 2008

I am a social marketing believer, blogger, researcher, practitioner and enthusiast in the concept of Social marketing for good. If not your organization, then you as the marketing/communications/outreach person. if you do not know what people are saying or how people currently perceive your organization/message?

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OCTOBER 22, 2008

Below is an edited transcript of an interview from October 11, 2008 with Cami Walker, the founder of the 29-Day Giving Challenge, which you can also listen to on the Big Vision Podcast. In the interview, Cami mentions that she is writing a book about the 29 Day Giving Challenge. Now there are organized events happening locally.

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AUGUST 10, 2007

An interview with Allen Gunn of Social Source Commons by Britt Bravo over at Netsquared. a leading provider of software and related services designed specifically for nonprofit organizations, has announced that it has acquired privately-owned eTapestry, based in Indianapolis, Indiana. is coming " Bloggers go to the SF Symphony!

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JULY 3, 2006

Rose Aguilar from Bay Area Business Woman interviewed me recently for an article entitled, "Women's Voices Boom in the Blogosphere." You are looking for a new communication tool for your organization or business. I started thinking, sounds like there are a lot of women out there who would like to start a blog, but don't know how.

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JANUARY 4, 2007

I had the pleasure of interviewing Judi Sohn for Blogher and have finally published it. Her personal blog drives traffic to her organization's web site. The second thing she did after hiring an attorney to get the organization's tax-exempt status was to hire a well-known cancer blogger for her organization.

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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. As you'll note from that article, Nedra has also been exploring Second Life and we bumped into each other at the TechSoup space there where we completed our interview.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

And, there is so much to experiment that one person or organization can't do it alone. The rule of threes: Identify and explore a tool and commit to learning three things about it in three weeks with at least three other people in your organization or your peers. I interviewed Tuesday Gutierrez from SaveGuimaras over at blogher.

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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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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.

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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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OCTOBER 23, 2006

To atone, here's a set of links for this week, all from female bloggers. Quick: Tell me what your organization does! Beth Kanter is one of my favorite bloggers, in part because she so often does interviews of very interesting people in her postings. Britt - like Beth - is also a great interviewer. Open API's.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

So, I thought it would be great to interview her and learn why she was successful. In February, I was asked to go to Uganda with 15 other bloggers through Compassion International. It was the first time an organization like Compassion had used social networking as a medium to raise awareness and release children from poverty.

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JUNE 30, 2007

In April I organized a panel for the Stanford Women's Leadership Conference called "Solutionary Women: How Can I Create Change?" I asked four of the women who I had previously interviewed for the Big Vision Podcast to share what brought them to their work, and their advice for the graduate and undergraduate women who attended the conference.

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