Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Through volunteering, donating classes to community raffles, and holding events to raise money for various causes, I've always hoped that I was planting seeds of happiness for others. Oui, I do love people but there is something so special, fragile, and oh-so-freakin' cute about animals - especially pigs! Have I mentioned pigs?

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JUNE 19, 2009

After meeting her at the Global Engagement Summer last spring, I knew I wanted to grab her for an interview before she became too famous. We wanted to use the power of the Internet to try to connect people to the causes that they were serving, and to bring maximum transparency to the international development world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2006

I met Laura at Boston Podcamp very briefly and grabbed her card so I could catch up with her for an interview for Blogher. How do you as a progressive, compassionate person decide which causes to donate money to? If everyone who was very passionate about a given cause took the time to create a simple 15SecondPitch, I???d

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AUGUST 21, 2008

Before you draft your blogger outreach email, check out my 10 Tips for Asking Bloggers to Write About Your Cause. Facebook and MySpace are of course the biggies, but you might want to consider creating a presence on a do-good social network like Change.org , Care2 , Just Cause , Razoo , WiserEarth or World of Good too.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 15, 2008

I was particularly moved by an interview with one Stanley Hotel resident, a heroin addict, who said, "I wish people had a better understanding of the kind of people we are, 'cause we're not animals, and we're not contagious. The 501c3Cast's most recent show featured an inspiring interview with Sandy Bettger of GivingCircles.org.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

Interviews (written, audio, video). Next week, Beth Kanter will be continuing this BlogHer series about getting started using social media for your nonprofit, or do-good project with posts about social networking, connecting offline and online action, and raising money on social networks. Post about a range topics (i.e.

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JUNE 2, 2006

People: As part of her "Solutionary Women" series, Britt Bravo posted an interview today with my very good friend Rebecca Kalin of Asthma Free School Zones. You can also find it on Britt's Blogher site. Rebecca points out that idling vehicles is the Number One cause of air pollution in urban areas! Cut that engine!

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MAY 27, 2009

Most people who do social change work do so because they are emotionally connected to a cause. Cross-posted from BlogHer. You may not see the results you want to achieve in your lifetime (i.e. the end of poverty). That emotion can give you energy, but it can also exhaust you. Britt Bravo is a Big Vision Consultant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

I attended the " Twenty-Something Meet Up " at the BlogHer Conference. " I had the pleasure of interviewing him about his he formed his organization. Qui Diaz has a blog called Evange.LIST that covers social media for social causes. An Interview With Matthew Zachary, Founder I???m Why did I go?

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AUGUST 23, 2006

That’s why I started interviewing women (and men) for the Big Vision Podcast , and my Solutionary Women series on BlogHer who get up in the morning and have a big vision for a better world as their alarm clock. Sometimes it’s hard to get up in the morning and be fearless, to have courage, to care.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

Nedra Weinreich, Spare Change Blog Nedra Weinreich was one of the first nonprofit tagged blogs that I discovered while browsing the blogher blogroll a few months back. As you'll note from that article, Nedra has also been exploring Second Life and we bumped into each other at the TechSoup space there where we completed our interview.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

I interviewed Tuesday Gutierrez from SaveGuimaras over at blogher. How have social networking tools helped spread the word about your cause? YouTube would have been more helpful for my cause if people in the Philippines have home videocameras and if they have a fast broadbandwidth. What should you bring forward?

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

60) Search « 5 Quick Steps to Better SEO | Main | Tech & Style Tips for Conducting Blog Interviews » Tuesday Mar 10 2009 Top 10 SXSW Interactive Panels Your Nonprofit Should Attend Tuesday, March 10, 2009 at 05:27PM | by Allyson Kapin Are you planning to check out SXSW Interactive this year?

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MAY 10, 2006

Last week I sat down with a former co-worker, Mei-ying Ho, who is now the Co-Director of SOUL , for an interview for my Big Vision podcast. The podcast isn't up yet, but here is a partially modified transcription of our conversation which you can also read along with profiles of other Solutionary Women on Blogher : What is SOUL?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2008

This week, as BlogHer , launched a special campaign with GlobalGiving to raise money for lifesaving programs for women around the world, here is an interview with Donna Callejon who is the Chief Operating Officer of Global Giving. We are really excited about our new partnership with BlogHers Act.

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OCTOBER 24, 2009

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2008

Last month I attended the " Twenty-Something Meet Up " at the BlogHer Conference, facilitated by the fabulous Zandria. The next logical step, of course, is to start to get to know some of these bloggers by doing interviews. Certain causes warrant full-on exploitation of social media if resources allow. The question.

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JULY 6, 2006

She offered me a review copy of her recently published book Robin Hood Marketing: Stealing Corporate Savvy to Sell Just Causes. The point she makes is that we need to think of our audience as customers rather than converts to our cause - we don't need to strive to for a shared worldview, but rather get people to take action.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 7, 2006

Last month I wrote a short post for Blogher, Roadies for a Cause , about a nonprofit called Lokahi Outreach , that partners with organizations like the ONE campaign and Oxfam to help them do grassroots campaigning on the road. Describe the work you do with Lokahi Outreach and what inspired you to start it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2006

Nancy White recently blogged about a tool called ChipIn which is designed to simplify the process of connecting with people in your social network to collect money for a personal cause, to purchase a gift, or for community fundraising. Donors Choose (which came my way via Blogher Lisa Stone's sister!) Another new tool is PledgeBank.

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