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Just Found: International NGO Flickr Group

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but at Network-Centric Advocacy blog, I found fastr flickr a game that uses flickr images. And the next thing I know he invites me to the International NGO Flickr Group. While browsing, happened to notice blogher Kalabird, who is doing NGO work in Cambodia has contributed a few.

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Meet Michaela Hackner: BlogHer and Nonprofit Techie

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Through a strange twist of fate, I connected again with Kalabird one of the first ex-pat bloggers from Cambodia that I discovered in 2005 because of her amazing photographs in flickr. So, she graciously agreed to participate in our panel and do a quick interview for me so I could "pro blog it" for BlogHer.

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Another Meme. foot level girl geekery

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The photo from one of my flickr contacts, Gina Trapani , caught my eye and I thought, this looks familiar but couldn't place it. Then I read the attribution, "photo concept shamelessly stolen " and realized that I had taken a similar photo at Blogher! And if I was till in Cambodia, I would translated the meme.

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Give One, Get One: One Laptop Per Child.

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DC Metblogger Flickr Photo. But when I realized it would take a long time before a small NGO working in a country, like say, Cambodia, might be able to purchase a small number of them (less than 100) to outfit a school, I was disappointed. Virginia Debolt who covers the technology beat at BlogHer has a great roundup of the reactions.

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Why is this Cambodian Orphan Wearing A Creative Commons T-Shirt?

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Cambodia4kids Flickr Photos. Nast who writes a placeblog called BlogWindsor and Femilicious at BlogHer this summer. The orphanage represents a new standard of hygiene, medical services, nutrition, and compassionate care for children in Cambodia. I meet Candace N. I immediately noticed her t-shirt because I have the same one.

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I'm Speaking at SXSW About Nonprofits and Social Fundraising

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I'm excited to finally meet Michaela face-to-face after following her personal blog and flickr stream over three years. We connected through the "cambodia" tag on flickr because I was tracking it for Global Voices back in 2005. Michaela is now director of online strategy for World Learning.

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NGOS, Collaborative Technologies, and Interesting Women!

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Nancy live blogged Linda Stone's presentation and flickred lots of photos ) I think Annette's points on improving the conference dialogue between ideamakers and toolmakers is something that might be useful at the NTC Conference hosted by N-TEN. Photo Credit: on Flickr by Beth Kanter