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ChipIn Over the Holidays

Have Fun - Do Good

Did you know that according to the 2005 Kintera/Luth Nonprofit Trend Report : "On average, online givers donate in total (both online and offline) more than 50 percent more than those donors who do not give online." My fellow BlogHer co-editor, Beth Kanter , has launched a fundraising campaign using ChipIn. She sits on their board.

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I'm Speaking at SXSW About Nonprofits and Social Fundraising

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Yet many have overcome the odds and made a splash online and offline by using the latest Web technologies - for pennies on the dollar. We connected through the "cambodia" tag on flickr because I was tracking it for Global Voices back in 2005. (And, we're going to wear pimp hats ) Monday, March 10th 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm.

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Chris Brogan: What Were Your First Steps?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was networking weaving between the offline/online. I jumped on the BlogHer bandwagon in 2005 and followed all the BlogHer's - they were on my sidebar initially - like Lisa, Jory, Elisa, Liz Henry, Lisa Cantor, Ponzi, Lisa Williams, Danah Boyd, Amy Gahran, and many, many others. Go deeper with social media for social causes.

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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. This made think of whether trust is only built from knowing someone offline or not. This is just a sampling.

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Meet A Wired Fundraiser: Anne Jackson, FlowerDust

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In August, I did a little fundraising experiment that involved Twitter and an integrated offline component at the Gnomedex Conference in Seattle. I was able to raise $2,657 to cover the costs of college tuition for Leng Sopharath, an orphan in Cambodia in just 90 minutes. Cross posted at BlogHer.