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What is your 15SecondPitch? An Interview with Laura Allen

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I met Laura at Boston Podcamp very briefly and grabbed her card so I could catch up with her for an interview for Blogher. Luckily, people immediately loved the idea of the 15SecondPitch and people started to buy our business cards with their pitches printed on them right away. and I thought that was a very profound idea.

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6 Ways to Use the Web to Find a Nonprofit Job

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Ask if they'd introduce you to their contact so you can set up an informational interview. Check out Guy Kawasaki's Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn to Find a Job for more ideas. Cross-posted from BlogHer. See who in your network knows someone at the organizations you'd like to work for. Within two weeks she had a job.

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The Last Blogpotomac: A New Community Rises from the Ashes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. OrganicMania or Lynn Miller who I met through Twitter and later interviewed me for this blog post about a year ago.

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Small Groups Can Change the World: An Interview with Marianne Manilov of The Engage Network

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Last week, after the election, BlogHer co-founder Lisa Stone, asked What Will You Do To Change America? On October 21, 2008, I interviewed Marianne Manilov, the National Team Leader at The Engage Network, about their work. Below is an edited transcript of an interview, which you can also listen to on the Big Vision Podcast.

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The NpTechersphere is Typing. July Roundup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was inspired to do a regular summary after Deborah Finn assembled a Boston TechnoBabe Meta Feed. I will be posting interviews with them in a few weeks, so stay tuned. Maybe it is part of the gearing up for the upcoming session at Blogher called " Get Deeply Geeky."

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A Few Social and Collaborative Fundraising Approaches

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

With that in mind, I decided to take a look at some of some interesting fundraising tools, ideas, and approaches for small grassroots organizations that came across my reader or inbox in the past month or so. Donors Choose (which came my way via Blogher Lisa Stone's sister!) Another new tool is PledgeBank. ll do it, but only if you???ll

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

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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. Like there'll be times where I'm really interested in food issues, and I'm interviewing and talking to people about that.

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