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Meet Connie Bensen: Network Weaver and Online Community Strategist

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In a recent post on Blogher, Virginia DeBolt mentions the list titled 100 Awesome Webmaster Blogs by and for Women by Jimmy Atkinson. BlogHer's leadership trio Lisa, Elisa, and Jory was in the number 1 spot. This list has included other BlogHers such as Anne Zelenka and myself. Have people involved in building the community.

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Jen Louden, Savor and Serve: How I Have Fun, Do Good

Have Fun - Do Good

We wrote a sweetness in front of an office for a friend grieving the death of his child, in front of our doc's office saying thanks for being such a great healer, and loud praise for the librarians at the library. What was truly cool was how long some of the messages lasted - in some cases, weeks!

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10 Tips for Starting a Virtual Social Change Book Club

Have Fun - Do Good

As I mentioned in my post, Community, Beauty, Party, Wisdom: More Reverb 10 Reflections , one of the highlights of 2010 was organizing a virtual social change book club. I sent out a note to the women on the BlogHer Contributing Editor list. Find a handful of people who want to read the same book as you. Meet every six weeks.

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13 Causes I'd Give to If Friday the 13th Was My Lucky Day

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Genocide Intervention Network Mission: "The Genocide Intervention Network empowers individuals and communities with the tools to prevent and stop genocide." I Love Libraries Mission: "Friends of I Love Libraries was created to provide a means for library advocates to strengthen grassroots efforts in support of America’s libraries.

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Jocelyn Harmon: People, Words, Technology & Truth: How I Have Fun, Do Good

Have Fun - Do Good

It sounds “old-school” but I love to go to my local library every Saturday to wander up and down the stacks. For me there is nothing like the thrill of curling up in bed with a book or polishing off a (hopefully good) blog post. If I'm honest, my hope is that weekly practice will spontaneously ignite the manifestation of my own memoir!

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Good Magazine Wants You To Do Good!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Hands On Network brings people together to strengthen communities through meaningful volunteer action. San Francisco to teaching reading in Atlanta, to rebuilding homes and lives in the Gulf coast communities. Beth Kanter, BlogHer Contributing Editor for Social Change and Nonprofits, is the author of Beth's Blog.

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Chris Brogan: What Were Your First Steps?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Then I discovered the Internet and became the community builder for Arts Wire, an online network for artists that used a unix-based text conferencing system called Caucus. I think of those online communities as social media because it was all about conversation, getting to know people, and interacting. It was all about community.