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Why You Didn't Hear About Cyclone Ivan's Destruction in Madagascar and How To Help Support Relief Efforts

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Flickr Photo from Avylavitra Several weeks ago I wrote a post on BlogHer about Foko Madagascar and Joan Razafimharo , an amazing blogger, social change activist, and woman working in Madagascar and other parts of the world. Reports suggest 15,000 are homeless because of the storm, and 22 dead.

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How Can We Make Charitable Giving A Year-Round Habit?

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For my 50th birthday, I held a 50th Birthday Card Photo Remix Contest on flickr and donated $50 the winner's favorite charity. Gradon Tripp, Boston Blogger, created a fundraiser to support Jane Doe Inc. If you're a blogger, you can run a comment for a donation contest. And, yes they did ! in honor of his late mother.

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NpTech Summary: Advocacy 2.0, Sketchcastes, and NpTech in Different Languages

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Presentation Slides on flickr Blog post here. As both a lesson and as a metric, failure is potentially productive at every level of socialmarkets - from the repeated return of one homeless person to shelter, to the repeated attempts to attach a value like SROI to such a story." is coming " Bloggers go to the SF Symphony!

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

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Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. Getting the software set up is easy and it is free, using blogger.

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