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Cambodia Bloggers: Five Years Later – Part 2

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In 2007, I raised money to help sponsor the first Cambodian Bloggers conference and raised a lot of the money via Twitter as Shel Israel noted in his book, Twitterville. I also used Twitter to get 300 t-shirts donated to bring over for the conference. Here’s a video and blog post I wrote for Blogher back then.

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The Last Blogpotomac: A New Community Rises from the Ashes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Geoff Livingston invited me to keynote the conference along with Shel Israel , author of Twitterville. You don't necessarily see women keynote at technology conferences (well accept for women focused technology conferences like blogher ), but Geoff was trying hard ensure a gender balanced program and succeeded.

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Lessons Learned About Social Networks and Fundraising from Cambodia Campaign on ChipIn

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Shel Israel. They would match donations $1 up to $2,000 I raised for the project. Jen Lemen and Mom2Amara graciously donated t-shirts and I got three business cards from tech companies with an offer of t-shirts. While visiting the BlogHer exhibits, I stopped by the Scrapblog booth to say hello because I'm huge fan.