Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

Acumen Fund is a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty. Ashoka 's mission is to shape a citizen sector that is entrepreneurial, productive and globally integrated. If you do the math, that's $1 million donated to these organizations. the rest of the world.

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APRIL 11, 2008

I was in a very dark period in my life dealing with a chronic illness (multiple sclerosis) as well as a major move from San Francisco to Los Angeles. To complete the challenge, Walker asks that you submit a story on your 30th day about the impact the Challenge has made on your life. As of this writing, 128 people have joined.

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life Filling the Well: Giving to Yourself Join My Village: Ladies Home Journal Do Good Challenge Make Someone's Day: Write a Letter Whew! 10 Tips for an Effective Nonprofit or Do-Good Facebook Fan Page by Beth Kanter on BlogHer. It's been a been a busy few weeks!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

Details Are Sketchy is an anonymous blogger who writes about life in Cambodia. She also has the definitive list of Cambodian BlogHers here. He is an active tagger and expert in social networking sites. Perhaps my friend, John Weeks, in the photograph above has the precise definition. I love her authentic style.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Photo by Life in Africa For this week's BlogHer Holiday Guide post, I needed to come up with a list of nonprofit organizations or causes that BlogHer readers may consider making a donation to as part of their year-end giving. I have two favorites: The Sharing Foundation which supports children in Cambodia and Creative Commons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

The list included BlogHer founders Elisa Camahort Page, Jory Des Jardins, and Lisa Stone. Susan Tenby is the community manager at TechSoup responsible for their Second Life efforts. is the managing editor for Global Voices. Holly Ross. is the executive director of NTEN and expert in everything nonprofit tech. Georgia Popplewell.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2006

Almost two years ago at the first Blogher Conference I was lucky enough to interview and get to know Lisa Canter (we aren't related but I learned a few things about the kanter/canter name from her husband, Marc ). Tharum, who I had the pleasure of meeting via my work with Global s, has linked to the Campaign. Lisa's post is here.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2006

Tharum, who I had the pleasure of meeting via my work with Global s, has linked to the Campaign. I also want to thank Ken Goldstein for sharing with his network on YouTube. Britt Bravo on her personal blog. smArts & Culture FiSpace Micropersuasion E-politics. Ricardo Carreon. Solution Grove. Keun Fast , another Cambodian blogger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

Later that summer, I had the honor of being interviewed by Ponzi at BlogHer. I love conversational keynotes and have ever since I first experienced them during the Global Voices London Summit 2005 and Blogher plenary session in 2005. s very difficult to decide which to attend. This year, I finally got an opportunity to attend.

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AUGUST 3, 2008

I attended the " Twenty-Something Meet Up " at the BlogHer Conference. I keep hearing from nonprofits that one of the reasons they want to incorporate a social networking or media strategy is to reach a younger audience. Holy Meatballs is Global Kids project blog - I've pointed to the posts by teens. Why did I go?

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JULY 2, 2008

Interviewed Janessa Goldbeck of the Genocide Intervention Network. Made some changes in my work life to give me more space for creative projects and down time. What I've done: Read What is the What by Dave Eggers. Read Darfur Diaries by Aisha Bain, Jen Marlowe and Adam Shapiro. Watched Darfur Now. I do one per month.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

This one via NTEN and Neighborhood Networks Conference and this one via the nonprofit blog exchange. Here's a roundup of all the live blog posts from the recent BlogHer conference neatly organized by session. Opening Event for Nonprofit Commons in Second Life is on Tuesday, August 14 at 5:30 PST. I so need a better system.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2006

As a result, been behind with the online/blogging part of my life. Nonprofit Technology Pillars: I'll admit these resources are North Americancentric and I apologize (hopefully my global nonprofit colleagues can name the pillars of other continents and leave referrals in the comments.).

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OCTOBER 22, 2008

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. You can download a 29 Day Giving Calendar and gift cards on the 29 Day Giving Challenge social network. I have multiple sclerosis, and my life was in a very awful place.

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APRIL 24, 2007

At the heart of Fair Trade is the notion of direct trade, kind of like a farmer's market gone global. BB: Can you share a story of how a family's life has been changed for the better by Fair Trade? For more information about TransFair USA go to www.transfairusa.org Britt Bravo also blogs at Have Fun * Do Good , NetSquared and BlogHer.

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OCTOBER 24, 2009

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. Geoff Livingston invited me to keynote the conference along with Shel Israel , author of Twitterville.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Anne Jackson who writes the Flower Dust raised $1800 of it in 18 hours, $800 in 15 minutes Compassion International's Global Food Crisis. Most of my life has been spent roaming around nomadically.I've moved 33 times in just 28 years and have a resume that would make any sane HR person laugh hysterically. Cross posted at BlogHer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

It goes into the topic of social networking analysis.huh? I'm remembering something that I heard Robert Scobel say at last year's Global s Summit in London. In addition, I also look at the Technorati ratings, but with a huge a grain of salt (thanks to my smart blogher friend, Amy Gahran. What rankings and influence?

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JUNE 30, 2007

In 1995, I'm giving you my life story; I took a class called Challenging White Supremacy. One of the first things that I had to do that was terrifying to me, when I was at the Rainforest Action Network, was actually stand up in front of a crowd at Carnegie Hall and address the CEO of Citigroup, which is the largest bank in the world.

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