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Learnings and Reflections from BlogHer about Mobile Phones for Video Blogging and Beyond

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While I was in Chicago, Ryanne Hodson , who I met at last year's BlogHer, is in Cambodia and Southeast Asia with Jay Dedman to document the work of Project Hope International. So, while at BlogHer 07 I had a little bit of a personal learning mission: What can I learn about mobile video blogging in a global context?

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Meet Michaela Hackner: BlogHer and Nonprofit Techie

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, she graciously agreed to participate in our panel and do a quick interview for me so I could "pro blog it" for BlogHer. I studied at Penn State University, working towards a self-designed major in web and multimedia design (when it was just basic HTML and Macromedia Director). How did you end up in Cambodia?

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

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Since finding cool things to do with your teens can be a challenge (at least for me), consider guerilla art love as your next Savor and Serve project! What was truly cool was how long some of the messages lasted - in some cases, weeks!

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Christine Egger, In Conversation: How I Have Fun, Do Good

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And the others involved do too, whether they’re individuals or organizations or projects or whatever. I come away from them feeling changed, like some part of me shifted into something that’s, well, more me. Sometimes – not always – the connection is prescribed and there’s a goal involved. Something we’re “conversing for the purpose of.”

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Beth Terry, Fake Plastic Fish: How I Have Fun, Do Good

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Beth Terry, Fake Plastic Fish: How I Have Fun, Do Good When I tell people about my project to live without buying any new plastic, they invariably want to know if it’s hard. The project could have been an exercise in guilt and public humiliation, but instead, it felt like a game. Click here to find a watch party near you. The answer?

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Foko Madagascar: It Takes A Village To Raise An Idea

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Currently, she is a project manager (design and architecture) for Foko. when TED Fellow Andriankoto and his fellow bloggers Mialy , Lova , and Joan combined their talents and never ending activism to start the FOKO project , to help support Madagascar???s You can support the effort here ) Cross posted at BlogHer.

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Emily Goligoski, The SanFranista: How I Have Fun, Do Good

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Soon after, I had the opportunity to write about a Bay Area non-profit, the Art of Yoga Project , that brings yoga, writing, and arts to girls in juvenile hall. By the time the story ran, I was so in awe of the Art of Yoga Project's work that I enrolled in a yoga teacher training.

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