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BlogHers Act and Other Ways to Help Myanmar Cyclone Victims

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Hundreds of thousands are now homeless. The photos, videos, and blog reports are giving us vivid citizen accounts. And BlogHer has responded. Earlier today, Lisa Stone of BlogHer let us know that BlogHers Act and Global Giving expanded the Mother's Day fundraising initiative to include support for a project for emergency relief.

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Submit Your Children of the Recession Story to Katie Couric

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Yesterday I represented BlogHer on a conference call with bloggers from the Silicon Valley Moms Blog, and Katie Couric. One in 50 American children is homeless, and as more homes go into foreclosure that number will rise." You can find info about How to Help or Get Help on the series' landing page.

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Changebloggers List + Wanna Meetup?

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Spare Change TED blog TED talks (video) TimeToShine Tri to End Homeless Up with Women (they've requested help with improving their blog) Vampituity What Gives? Spare Change TED blog TED talks (video) TimeToShine Tri to End Homeless Up with Women (they've requested help with improving their blog) Vampituity What Gives?

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Why You Didn't Hear About Cyclone Ivan's Destruction in Madagascar and How To Help Support Relief Efforts

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. The Foko site has a round up of YouTube Video coverage, including this one which gives a glimpse of the destruction.

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29-Day Giving Challenge: An Interview with Cami Walker

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Cami Walker, Founder, 29 Day Giving Challenge The 29 Day Giving Challenge is a global giving movement where participants give away one thing each day for 29 days. I wrote about my experience with the Giving Challenge last spring in the post, 29 Day Giving Challenge Takeaway: Compassion is Hardest to Give.

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NpTech Summary: Advocacy 2.0, Sketchcastes, and NpTech in Different Languages

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As both a lesson and as a metric, failure is potentially productive at every level of socialmarkets - from the repeated return of one homeless person to shelter, to the repeated attempts to attach a value like SROI to such a story." The nonprofitmarketing blog gives us ten things to engage constituents online.

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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? That email list is going to give you updates once a quarter. Maybe you're going to give money. I think they did a great job of trying to give people 10 actions, but a lot of it was "Change your light bulb," or "Buy a Prius."

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