Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2006

I'm finally back home after an extended business trip that began with the Blogher 2006 conference. What would be the result if we could mobilize the blogher network? The issue of whether to raise money via their blogs was also discussed during the Blogher Community Assistance Panel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2006

Thought folks might be interested in reading the Humaninet blog from Gregg Swanson who will be blogging and uploading photos to the Hnet Flickr account via a satellite connection at a disaster response exercise in Asia put on by ADRA Asia. Blog: [link] Flickr: [link]. They probably already know about each other's work.

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JULY 30, 2006

The last BlogHer Conference session I went to yesterday, before leaving early to go to a wedding, was about using blogging for Community Assistance. Here are some of the tips they gave for other disaster relief bloggers: Tips from Grace 1. They also set up a wiki. Your blog needs to be a place to “help the helper.”

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JANUARY 12, 2010

You can follow their work on the American Red Cross Disaster Newsroom blog, and on Twitter at @RedCross. • A BlogHer commenter also posted a link to an extensive list on the What Gives!? I'm particularly interested in hearing about grassroots organizations. • Fund for UNICEF also needs donations. Cross-posted from BlogHer.com.

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MARCH 2, 2011

Red Crossers Jenny Brennan, Wendy Harman, and Seth Spiro checking Twitter and other social media in the Disaster Operations Center in Washington, DC Photo by American Red Cross. This type of having fun and doing good I expected when I accepted my job, but it has been more rewarding than I imagined.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. but I enjoy saying " I am only 20 ") I this is the best gift ever!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

There's information about heat safety, pet first aid, and disaster planning. At Blogher Unconference, Leslie Madsen Brooks (who works with university faculty to help them make their instruction more thoughtful and who is also a dog lover ) put up a session called "Slow Blogging.

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