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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. And since this interview is going to be posted on Blogher, I'll narrow it down to women bloggers: 1. This is not to be confused with social media marketing. Trendspotting by Dr. Taly Weiss 2.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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FORGE uses a collaborative, rather than top-down model, to serve refugees' needs, and much has been written in the blogosphere and media about Erickson's "radical transparency" around the organization's financial challenges. You use a process that on your website was described as the, "collaborative project planning process."

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Stop Cyberbullying Day: Some Inspiration from the Blogosphere

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Hats off to Lisa, Jory, and Elisa (as well as to my fellow BlogHer CE editors) for posting such brilliant thoughts about this topic. Here's her advice for educators, students, and parents on how to stop Cyberbullying Today!: SHARE - Plan to show this video to your students. The Human Genome project.

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Empowering Women Bloggers

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Two projects supporting women bloggers launched yesterday, the new Blogher network and the Young Caucasus Women Project. Personal Politics & News Race & Ethnicity Religion & Spirituality Research & Academia Sex & Relationships Technology & Web Travel & Recreation World In addition, they have blogrolls of women bloghers in each category.

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Solutionary Women: Brande Jackson

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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. I lead my students when I teach.

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A Few Social and Collaborative Fundraising Approaches

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Donors Choose (which came my way via Blogher Lisa Stone's sister!) is a simple way to provide students in need with resources that our public schools often lack. The Omidyar Network has launched team-based collaborative funding projects.

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Meet Nicola M. Wells: Social Media As An Online Door Knocking Campaign for Immigrant Rights

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This lesson hit home for us last year around the vote for the DREAM Act (a bill that would allow undocumented students, brought here as children, to have access to higher education). Cross-posted at BlogHer Like the new pro-migrant community blog, the Sanctuary. One without the other is never as effective.