Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

Foko Blog Club, Foko Madagascar Flickr Photo Joan Razafmaharo is an amazing blogger, social change activist, and woman working in Madagascar and other parts of the world. FOKO was created after the TED Global conference: ???Africa The project was funded by Rising Voices , the outreach arm of Global Voices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2006

Thought folks might be interested in reading the Humaninet blog from Gregg Swanson who will be blogging and uploading photos to the Hnet Flickr account via a satellite connection at a disaster response exercise in Asia put on by ADRA Asia. They probably already know about each other's work. Blog: [link] Flickr: [link].

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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. Photo by Dmason. The GRO Foundation: Global Relief Outreach. Adopt An Acre of Rainforest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

Photo by Mythicaldude. She also has the definitive list of Cambodian BlogHers here. His clients are primarily Cambodian NGOs and small businesses in country, but if you like his work you can certainly send him an inquiry. The Cambodian Blog community has many facets, including an active group of "ex-pat" bloggers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

s loans to start small businesses and support their families, working together so that all may succeed in their individual businesses.  Photo by Beth Kanter "When a woman invests, the effort will bear fruit and sustain others."    It symbolizes the harvest, the fruit of hard work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

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. I haven't slept much working on this project (but feeling really motivated!) I just did).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

Thousands of photos in flickr (and really good ones). Later that summer, I had the honor of being interviewed by Ponzi at BlogHer. A couple of personal highlights of the sessions: Photography Tips Kris Krug who is an awesome photographer who gave us great tips on improving our photos. Two awesome parties.

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MARCH 4, 2009

Fellow BlogHer Contributing Editor, Beth Kanter, writes about the fundraising Twitter campaign for CARE happening in conjunction with the film in her post, Tweetathon To Honor International Women's Day and To Spread The Word About A Powerful Noise Live. The Global Fund for Women also has an online toolkit to help you host a house party.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Most of Be Sweet's products are made by artisans who work in job creation programs in South Africa. Last week I posted about the online fair trade store, Global Girlfriend , here and on BlogHer , and asked readers to post other ideas for do-good gifts. Photo credit: Shelley Big Bag from Be Sweet site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

We connected through the "cambodia" tag on flickr because I was tracking it for Global Voices back in 2005. The first photo of hers from Cambodia was this one of the four monks crossing the street titled Abbey Road. Michaela is now director of online strategy for World Learning. Peter identified the pros/cons as: Pros.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

This might work best for a group where some post-event action on the ideas captured during the event might be anticipated. For example, during the Global s London Summit, a wiki was used to capture a brainstorming session and then to help bring those ideas foward in the months following the gathering.

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JULY 2, 2008

This year I've interviewed Christina Arnold of Prevent Human Trafficking, Cristi Hegranes of the Press Institute for Women in the Developing World , Kavita Ramdas of the Global Fund for Women, Anisha Desai of the Women of Color Resource Center, Janessa Goldbeck of Genocide Intervention Network, and Ari Derfel of Save Your Trash. Photo by me.

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AUGUST 23, 2006

Global Warming. That’s why I started interviewing women (and men) for the Big Vision Podcast , and my Solutionary Women series on BlogHer who get up in the morning and have a big vision for a better world as their alarm clock. Photo by Adriano Bravo. Election Fraud. Genetically-Modified Food. Time’s a wastin’.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

In April, I blogged about HSUS "Stop Canada's Cruel Seal Hunt" campaign over at blogher and my blog and last December on my blog as part of a roundup of articles on using social networking spaces for campaigns. What kinds of conversations in-house/on-staff did the desire to integrate social networking tools into your work spark?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Flickr Photo by Ghbrett. 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. George Brett who took some great photos of conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

Photo by James Jordan I'm actually in the clouds, flying to California on Virgin America using the (not free) wifi listening to Mark Pesce's keynote via Mike Seyfang delivered the other day at Connecting Up Australia the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Australia (see web site for details). I keynoted the conference last year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2007

Photo by Shel Israel. At the end of the Global Women's Panel the moderator Georgia Popplewell. In addition, I'd like to thank Britt Bravo who gave her covered AOL laptop bag to schlep home the t-shirts from BlogHer and to Gina Trapani for donating her extra t-shirts. Here's a few learnings, some highlights, and thanks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Photo by Andy Welsh from flickr - cc "by" license. " The question awoke my inner research geek (a long time ago I worked as a research analyst and focus group moderator). I'm remembering something that I heard Robert Scobel say at last year's Global s Summit in London. What rankings and influence?

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JUNE 30, 2007

I asked four of the women who I had previously interviewed for the Big Vision Podcast to share what brought them to their work, and their advice for the graduate and undergraduate women who attended the conference. I put each woman's photo at the beginning of when she talks to mark each section.

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