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11 Highlights from BlogHer '11

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Last week I spoke at BlogHer '11, a gathering of over 3,000 women bloggers. Teaching The Essential Blog Content Development Workshop I loved co-facilitating the Essential Blog Content Development Workshop with Elizabeth Soutter of Da Momma: Motherhood is Not for Wimps , and Julie Weckerlein of Julie and Martin. Connecting with friends.

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

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Christine is a facilitator, network weaver, and catalyst. The third blogger in this run of the Have Fun, Do Good guest post series is the wonderfully wise, Christine Egger. She works with individuals and organizations whose mission is to increase our capacity for empathy, generosity, and creativity.

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10 Elements of an Effective Nonprofit or Do-Good Blog

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You'll build community and provide a useful information filtering service for your readers. Facilitate commenting Allow commenting. You can track who is linking to you and writing about your issue by using services like Google Analytics or SiteMeter. Post weekly roundups of blog posts about your issue. Respond to comments.

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What's Your Moment of Obligation?

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At the time, I was a program director for an arts education program and a facilitator of career counseling workshops for artists. Cheryl Dorsey's post, Living Your Best Life through the Journey of Service on the USA Service blog. Cross-posted from BlogHer. Full disclosure: I'm the host of Echoing Green's Be Bold podcast.

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Collaborative Models for Capturing and Sharing Conference Notes at Nonprofit Gatherings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Another example of using a wiki to organize captured notes was Amy Gahran's wiki of all the blog posts and notes from the recent Blogher conference, compiled post-event and facilitated by the use a conference tag. Take for example these two nonprofit oriented conferences: Games for Change and Nonprofit Technology Conference.

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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. She has been named a Haas Public Service Fellow at Stanford, a Top 10 College Woman by Glamour Magazine , and a Person You Should Know by CNN.

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Solutionary Women: Mei-ying Ho

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The podcast isn't up yet, but here is a partially modified transcription of our conversation which you can also read along with profiles of other Solutionary Women on Blogher : What is SOUL? If it’s a base-building organization, or if it’s a service organization, get involved to get a feel about what fits your personality.