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A few Expat Bloggers in Cambodia

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Photo by Mythicaldude. The Cambodian Blog community has many facets, including an active group of "ex-pat" bloggers. Ex-pats are people who are citizens from other countries, but are living in Cambodia. Details Are Sketchy is an anonymous blogger who writes about life in Cambodia. I love her authentic style.

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Gift the Gift of Charity: Make A Contribution to any of these Fabulous Organizations

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Photo by Life in Africa For this week's BlogHer Holiday Guide post, I needed to come up with a list of nonprofit organizations or causes that BlogHer readers may consider making a donation to as part of their year-end giving. I have two favorites: The Sharing Foundation which supports children in Cambodia and Creative Commons.

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I'm Speaking at SXSW About Nonprofits and Social Fundraising

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We connected through the "cambodia" tag on flickr because I was tracking it for Global Voices back in 2005. The first photo of hers from Cambodia was this one of the four monks crossing the street titled Abbey Road. Builds Community. Michaela is now director of online strategy for World Learning. Year round.

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Chris Brogan: What Were Your First Steps?

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Then I discovered the Internet and became the community builder for Arts Wire, an online network for artists that used a unix-based text conferencing system called Caucus. I think of those online communities as social media because it was all about conversation, getting to know people, and interacting. It was all about community.

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Reflections from Global s London Summit

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I think it was more intense than a Westerner's culture shock visiting Cambodia for the first time. First, there was a lot of energy in the room, similar to the blogher , because a lot of people had been reading each other's blogs or posts on GV, but had never met face-to-face. I vlogged it here: Download cultureshock.wmv.

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The Last Blogpotomac: A New Community Rises from the Ashes

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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. The strong community vibe in the room was inspiring and comfortable. conference in 2010.

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Lessons Learned About Social Networks and Fundraising from Cambodia Campaign on ChipIn

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Photo by Shel Israel. I am sitting here amazed that we were able to meet the campaign goal for the Cambodia Bloggers Summit in about week's time. She suggested that if anyone didn't want to pack their t-shirts, that I would be happy to take them to Cambodia. I want to thank Carnet Williams and ChipIn for the challenge match!