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Information Overload: Make Using Your Email Delete Button Like Eating Chocolate!

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Photo by Ezster On Saturday, I attended BlogHer Boston. The networking was fabulous - meeting many new bloggers in the Boston area as well as seeing long-time blogher buddies and of course, Jory, Lisa, and Elisa. BlogHer always inspires me and this one did not fail. It was better than eating chocolate! Content generation.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. He was able to get some work digging pit latrines to put himself through one semester of his remaining high school education, and then he ran out of money.

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7 Ways to Have Fun and Do Good

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Johns β€” my North Portland, Oregon, neighborhood β€” I've been working this year on a new, all-volunteer mentoring program for local teen parents. - Elisa Camahort Page, BlogHer It is my absolute honor to help people find pieces of peace within, while outwardly expressing this life process though dance with our bodies. But it’s also fun.

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Cambodia Bloggers: Five Years Later – Part 2

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I started contributing to Global Voices where I did blogging roundups from Cambodia. 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. 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

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. followed by 20-30 minutes of discussion with the audience facilitated by the hosts. This is just a sampling.

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Small Groups Can Change the World: An Interview with Marianne Manilov of The Engage Network

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Last week, after the election, BlogHer co-founder Lisa Stone, asked What Will You Do To Change America? The Engage Network is a nonprofit social venture that facilitates the power of small community groups to create social change. Maybe you're going to give money. You can see if there is a local group in your area.

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