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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. Photo by Green LA Girl ) 2. with Gwen Bell As I mentioned in my post, Taking Back Your Time: Is Unplugging the New Green? Hanging out with Siel/Green LA Girl. Siel of Green LA Girl. BlogHer Writers Conference : October 20-21, 2011 (NYC).

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Have Fun Do Good Link Love: Echoing Green, Jobs for Change, Julia Cameron and 29 Gifts

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NEWS This week, Echoing Green partnered with Jobs for Change on a new Be Bold Podcast. In the first edition of this partnership, I interviewed Erin O'Connor Jones , the Director of Candidate Services and Managing Associate at Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group. We Inspire Grant : One year of creative services to one U.S.

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What's Your Moment of Obligation?

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While re-reading Echoing Green's book, Be Bold: Create a Career with Impact , I've been thinking about one of its main ideas--that people have moments of obligation. Moments of obligation are described as: "At certain moments in your life, you may find yourself pulled toward a path leading to work that will benefit others.

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29-Day Giving Challenge Takeaway: Compassion is Hardest to Give

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I came to realize that, at least for me, the most difficult thing to give away sometimes is compassion for individuals I encounter in every day life. On Day 26 of the Challenge I came across the Get Service video (above) about empathy. It lies with each of us individually. Peace, for example, starts within each one of us.

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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? inspired by Julia Butterfly Hill's tree-sit, Off the Mat Into the World , founded by yoga teacher Seane Corn, and Green for All , founded by Van Jones. At the moment, The Engage Network includes three "sectors": What's Your Tree?

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