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AUGUST 25, 2006

Over a year ago, I interviewed Carnet Williams , a long time member of the nonprofit technology and riders community and who recently launched 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.

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JANUARY 14, 2008

Cambodia4kids Flickr Photos. That's a photo I took this summer of a child at the Sharing Foundation 's Roteang Orphanage. Nast who writes a placeblog called BlogWindsor and Femilicious at BlogHer this summer. In fact, the photo I took of my kids wearing it won the Creative Commons photo contest ! I meet Candace N.

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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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OCTOBER 10, 2009

Notes, photos and presentations from events. Notes and photos from your work in the field. Ask readers to share opinions, resources, and content (blog posts, photos, audio, video). posts, photos, video). Post about a range topics (i.e. it's not just about you) You could write about: Breaking news in your field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

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. Photo by Dmason. Help Special Needs Children Improve Social Skills.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Flickr Photo from Avylavitra Several weeks ago I wrote a post on BlogHer about Foko Madagascar and Joan Razafimharo , an amazing blogger, social change activist, and woman working in Madagascar and other parts of the world. I just did).

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

DC Metblogger Flickr Photo. Good fundraisers also know that fundraising campaigns are more effective when you can put a face to the cause, according to recent research. Virginia Debolt who covers the technology beat at BlogHer has a great roundup of the reactions. I blogged it and was initially very excited!

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OCTOBER 10, 2008

All of the gifts are pooled to purchase one gift, and one donation to a cause for the birthday boy or girl. I like this idea 'cause you are getting one gift for you, and one gift that helps others. Flickr photo credit: Birthday Cake 08 uploaded by Anne Norman. Cross-posted from BlogHer.

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DECEMBER 12, 2008

You receive dozens of letters and emails asking you to support all kinds of causes, and the folks sending out the letters and email are hoping that when you open their message, even though you weren't planning on it, something will tug at your heartstrings in that moment, and you will write a check, or click a PayPal button.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 16, 2008

Photo from Roger Carr's Juvenile Arthritis Weekend Set You can donate here. He invested some of his social capital in my cause and I want to invest in his. And relationship building can scale into a networked approach - take a look at the most recent BlogHer's Act fundraising campaign to improve maternal health.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

Photo by Peacemaker. According to Wikipedia, a griefer is "a slang term used to describe a player in an multiplayer video game who plays the game simply to cause grief to other players through harassment. Griefing could be considered a malignant form of emergent gameplay."

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MAY 2, 2008

I used my webcam attached my laptop as my first digital camera to record photos from a conference that I was taking notes for - and then publishing as web pages. Go deeper with social media for social causes. The Typo Police Page. Note the blink tag! In 1996, when the first digital cameras and web cams out - I got one.

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AUGUST 31, 2006

You will learn about the different types and uses of blogs, why it is as important to read blogs as it is to write for one, how to add photos to your blog posts, and how to increase your blog traffic. Each student will create a Blogger blog during class. She also produces her own Big Vision Podcast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Define something small and tangible - whether it be a flickr photo contest or exploring the content related to your organization's issue and identifying 10 friends or contacts. I interviewed Tuesday Gutierrez from SaveGuimaras over at blogher. How have social networking tools helped spread the word about your cause?

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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. Photo by Adriano Bravo. Sometimes it’s hard to get up in the morning and be fearless, to have courage, to care.

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OCTOBER 18, 2006

Photo courtesy of Laura Allen. 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? Why did you launch your company? There are so many amazing non-profits out there.

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OCTOBER 24, 2009

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. George Brett who took some great photos of conference. Cheeky Geeky.

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AUGUST 5, 2007

Photo by Shel Israel. It's important to have a challenge grant or contest or something that gives both urgency and some confidence that others believe in your cause. It's important to have a challenge grant or contest or something that gives both urgency and some confidence that others believe in your cause. Here's an example.

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MAY 11, 2009

Photo by James Jordan I'm actually in the clouds, flying to California on Virgin America using the (not free) wifi listening to Mark Pesce's keynote via Mike Seyfang delivered the other day at Connecting Up Australia the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Australia (see web site for details). I keynoted the conference last year.

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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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FEBRUARY 18, 2009

For all of the pinging and poking and clicking and razzle dazzle of cause chatter, social change continues to happen through social connections. For causes it is more important than ever that they focus on how to strengthen those ties, with and without social media, online and on land, to support their efforts.

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JULY 18, 2007

With just nine days until the BlogHer Conference in Chicago, where I'll be moderating the panel, "Getting It On(line) for a Cause: Raising Money," I thought I'd search around for nonprofit and activist women bloggers in the Chicago area. Photo Credit: Chicago Skyline from Navy Pier by Michelle.

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