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MAY 6, 2007

Mary Joyce in front of her campaign posts during a recent trip to Lagos to set up computer equipment for the OpenNet Initiative in April, 2007 (Photo from her Flickr stream). " She has is supporting a campaign to Free Monem , a blogger arrested by Egyptians security forces on April 15th. By taking action! exponentially!

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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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AUGUST 1, 2007

Luckily, a group of local activists started a blog, Drilling Santa Fe , as an organizing and communication tool, and have put together an organizing event and petition , but it got me to thinking, why don't we all know how to organize our communities? Create a local press and blogger list. * community organizing

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OCTOBER 13, 2008

Photo by Ezster On Saturday, I attended BlogHer Boston. The networking was fabulous - meeting many new bloggers in the Boston area as well as seeing long-time blogher buddies and of course, Jory, Lisa, and Elisa. BlogHer always inspires me and this one did not fail. It was better than eating chocolate!

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2007

Many thanks to organizers Chris Brogan and Chris Penn and all the people who worked hard to make it happen and especially the generous sponsors like Jeff Pulver. I needed to spend Sunday with my kids who were more than happy to add another photo to the two-headed t-shirt collection. Photo by Jonny Goldstein.

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MAY 2, 2008

If your organization is trying to figure out how to move your stakeholders from passive listeners to passionate participants, this is your golden opportunity. It was like very primitive version of wiki collaborative organizing. But as more nonprofit arts organization hoisted their first web sites, they wanted how to information.

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DECEMBER 12, 2008

In her article, Straight from the Heart: A Plan to Organize Your Giving in Crosswalk , Beth Huber offers six steps for creating a giving plan: 1. Each month, they decide which organization(s) to give their offering. Check it out for more holiday giving tips from Nathaniel, and other bloggers. Establish your giving goal.

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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. Photo Credit Used with Permission from Flickr User c3colorectal. " The organization also has an Advocacy blog. s a lot harder than it looks."

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AUGUST 25, 2006

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. Wikis can also be used in the pre-planning or organizing some of the social events. or furl.

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AUGUST 31, 2006

You will learn about the different types and uses of blogs, why it is as important to read blogs as it is to write for one, how to add photos to your blog posts, and how to increase your blog traffic. Each student will create a Blogger blog during class. She also produces her own Big Vision Podcast.

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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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OCTOBER 24, 2009

Flickr Photo by Ghbrett. 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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MAY 11, 2009

Photo by James Jordan I'm actually in the clouds, flying to California on Virgin America using the (not free) wifi listening to Mark Pesce's keynote via Mike Seyfang delivered the other day at Connecting Up Australia the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Australia (see web site for details). I keynoted the conference last year.

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MARCH 24, 2008

For many years, I've organized a pre-conference event called the Day of Service , an opportunity for nonprofit techies to share their expertise or volunteer for a local organization on a specific project. I wrote about the experience on BlogHer last week. Moton Elementary: Just Another Abandoned School on a Toxic Waste Dump.

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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 put each woman's photo at the beginning of when she talks to mark each section. Here's this action you should take, this thing you should boycott, this organization you should know about."

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JULY 18, 2007

With just nine days until the BlogHer Conference in Chicago, where I'll be moderating the panel, "Getting It On(line) for a Cause: Raising Money," I thought I'd search around for nonprofit and activist women bloggers in the Chicago area. Christine Cupaiuolo is a Chicago-based blogger who created MsMusings.net , Ms.

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