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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MARCH 9, 2011

The seventh guest blogger in my Have Fun, Do Good series is Jamie Ridler. Look for ways of squeaking them into the unlikeliest of places. Even in the hardest places, you can shine a light. Jamie is a creative living coach and the director of Jamie Ridler Studios. We create a microcosm of what’s possible.

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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

OCTOBER 8, 2008

I referenced Liza Sabater's Brown Bloggers meetups, but could not point to any studies or stats. Blog is Beautiful Latino, Asian/Pacific Islander-American, and black bloggers. often these bloggers discard the handcuffs of their ethnic origins to tackle subjects affecting a range of racial or ethnic groups.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 16, 2012

The fourth blogger in this run of the Have Fun, Do Good guest post series is the delicious Meg Worden (I say delicious because I love her e-cookbook, Salad Alchemy). She writes for Elephant Journal, The Nervous Breakdown, Jack Move Magazine and has been published in a variety of other places both online and in print.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

At blogher, I attended a workshop on video blogging lead by Ryanne Hodson and Zadi Diaz. I asked a few questions: -Many video bloggers do vlog posts where they aim the camera at themselves, talk, and let the video roll. So, I placed my camera on some books on a table and took test shots until it was framed appropriately.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The ninth guest blogger in my have fun do good series is Katya Andresen. It’s about approaching work from a place of sharing and abundance rather than self-absorption and scarcity. Katya is the COO of Network for Good and the author of Robin Hood Marketing: Stealing Corporate Savvy to Sell Just Causes.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2008

A couple weeks ago I asked you and the Have Fun * Do Good Facebook group for suggestions for Changebloggers, people who are using their blog, podcast or vlog to raise awareness, build community, and/or facilitate readers/listeners/viewers' taking action to make the world a better place. In one place or multiple?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

The list included BlogHer founders Elisa Camahort Page, Jory Des Jardins, and Lisa Stone. Kaliya Hamlin, who is the founder of She's Geeky , a women and technology conference taking place in Mountain View, CA on January 30-31st was also on the list. Who are your favorite bloggers who write about nonprofits technology?

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

Place an AddThis or ShareThis button on the top of the 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. Allow email subscription ( Feedburner or Feedblitz will help you do this). Keep it short.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

The eleventh guest blogger in my have fun do good series is Lisa Sonora Beam. I combine my passion for travel, art and teaching by taking people to off-the-beaten path places that have lively arts and handcrafts scenes. Curiosity about other people and places promotes peace, understanding, tolerance.and very often lifelong friendships.

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APRIL 25, 2012

My first guest blogger is the lovely Amy Kessel. I feel most alive when I’m in the place of deeply witnessing another person. I'm starting the Have Fun, Do Good guest post series up again! Amy is a certified life coach devoted to helping women unfurl into their authentic selves. Lucky for me, I turned this into a career.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2007

I learned about this from a personal branding session at BlogHer I attended this summer. This is where people expect it to be and is also the first place they look. We inevitably associate a professional design with how seriously the blogger or webmaster takes what they do. Find a unique view on your topic. By doing so, you???re

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 28, 2006

These two bloggers, Ann Crady and Yael Pasternak Valek, are from Mayasmom.com , a resource wiki for moms. Because I write about nonprofit/ do*good things, they asked me about places for people to volunteer with their families. blogher blogher_06 Where else do you look for volunteer opportunities for your family?

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DECEMBER 8, 2009

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. If you do a good job of connecting with these e-journalists, you may be able to garner more PR and leverage their networks for success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

At the same time I discovered places like the Well, ECHO (east coast hangout) and Meta Network (where arts wire has hosted). In the nonprofit sector, there were not many bloggers in 2004. I also followed bloggers who were not in the nonprofit space. Who were your early people you admired and followed?

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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. I love conversational keynotes and have ever since I first experienced them during the Global Voices London Summit 2005 and Blogher plenary session in 2005. The informal learning that takes place in the hallways and around the lunch table and bar was amazing!

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 1, 2007

During the BlogHer Conference session, How to Turn Your Blog into a GOtV (Get Out the Vote) Machine, the incredibly inspiring Zephyr Teachout (former Director of Internet Organizing and Outreach for Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign) talked about the importance of three things when organizing: * Have an online petition tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2007

I had the pleasure of interviewing Judi Sohn for Blogher and have finally published it. "I will sometimes use my blog to help drive visitors to C3 in the first place since my site is more established and gets better search engine traffic. Judi Sohn, Director of Operations and Communications, for the Colorectal Cancer Coalition.

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Have Fun - Do Good

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. She also produces her own Big Vision Podcast. blog workshop women California Berkeley San Francisco

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

How can those notes best be aggregated in one place to be shared with all participants and perhaps with those who didn't attend the event? 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.

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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. third place??? Unfortunately, there are not a lot of other bloggers writing specifically about social marketing. This would make a great blog post!???

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 28, 2010

World Go Vegan Week (October 24-31, 2010) seems like a perfect time to highlight the sixth contributor to my series of guest posts by bloggers talking about how they have fun and do good. The best ways to follow her are via Twitter ( @ElisaC ) and by all the headline feeds found in her BlogHer profile. And I became galvanized.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

I interviewed Tuesday Gutierrez from SaveGuimaras over at blogher. Some have their own projects already in place before they??ve I've noticed that a lot of folks from Phillipines are really into social networking apps and lots of wonderful communities in places like YouTube, Flickr, etc. What should you bring forward?

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 22, 2008

I was in a very dark place struggling with a very serious health condition. I have multiple sclerosis, and my life was in a very awful place. About a month later things were even worse, and I was in an even worse place. That's really not a good place for any human being to be, honestly. It started with me. I was broke.

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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

MARCH 30, 2007

Looks other nptech bloggers and social networks are supporting this effort too! Hats off to Lisa, Jory, and Elisa (as well as to my fellow BlogHer CE editors) for posting such brilliant thoughts about this topic. When you see someone inappropriately attacking another blogger either on comments on or a blog, say something!

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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 11, 2009

Where they lose grasp of that knowledge, that’s the space where coups, palace revolutions and popular revolts take place. I think it was 2006 when the entire room of 1400 bloggers burst into spontaneous singing of this song at BlogHer. He describes the power shift that the cloud presents and it's burden of "always on."

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

And also, because I've always been involved with nonprofits, which are about helping other people and trying to make the world a better place, and I've done a lot of career counseling, I'm always trying to give people advice and share information. And it was really easy for me to share that information and link to those places.

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