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Meet A Social Butterfly Who Cares About Nonprofits Causes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Currently, my day job is a graduate student at the University of Missouri's School of Journalism where I will graduate this month. Next, do a social media scan of your non-profit and/or cause using Technorati or a Google blog search. How can you know how to help further a cause, meet needs, etc.,

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Katya Andresen, Network for Good: How I Have Fun, Do Good

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Katya is the COO of Network for Good and the author of Robin Hood Marketing: Stealing Corporate Savvy to Sell Just Causes. I strive to be a perpetual student: I try to stay in a state of intellectual curiosity. The ninth guest blogger in my have fun do good series is Katya Andresen. This brings me to… 3.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Give One, Get One: One Laptop Per Child.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was really happy because I immediately thought this would be terrific personal fundraising campaign to get a couple of laptops for the Sharing Foundation college students (like Leng Sopharath) and for the computer school. Virginia Debolt who covers the technology beat at BlogHer has a great roundup of the reactions.

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Basic Blogging for Women Workshop

Have Fun - Do Good

In early July, I posted about a Basic Blogging for Women Workshop I'd be teaching this fall, but after talking to some prospective students, I decided that it was important to find a space where everyone could be on a computer, so I changed the date and the venue so that we can be in a computer lab.

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A Look at Nonprofits and Vlogging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Shortly before the Blogher July 2005 conference, I got a new digital camera that came with a video feature. I was also curious to see whether there were nonprofits using vlogs to promote their causes. I was also curious to see whether there were nonprofits using vlogs to promote their causes. Here's a synthesis.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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Haven't you changed the model some, because it was a fundraising model through students fundraising, and now it's a little bit different? We would bring students. Cross-posted from BlogHer. I was just finishing my junior year. How has that changed? So, that's what we did. I think that is ultimately, I guess, our target audience.