Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2008

I've known Britt now for almost three years and have enjoyed working with her at Netsquared and Blogher. Not only has she been a generous donor to every personal fundraising campaign for Cambodia I've undertaken, but she also messaged out to her community to support this cause. If you have not yet donated $10. (or

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MAY 3, 2012

You can read her writing in Fundraising Success magazine and her personal blog, Marketing for Nonprofits. Developing deep, engaging, inspired and inspiring relationships with my nearest and dearest is one of the great joys of my life. Finally, telling the truth or living an authentic life, keeps me having fun and doing good.

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MARCH 3, 2011

Tara is a coach, and personal growth teacher. But somewhere along the way in life – most of us end up doubting the value of our ideas, shrinking our voices, and in general, playing small. The third guest blogger in my Have Fun, Do Good series is by Tara Sophia Mohr. Her work focuses on helping women play big and lead.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2008

." -- President-elect Obama's acceptance speech November 4, 2008 In her post today, Congratulations President-elect Obama: Now, BlogHers, what will YOU do to change America? BlogHer co-founder Lisa Stone asks us to make our own "transition plan," and ask ourselves how are we are each going to help create change in America.

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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. And so I have begun the challenge."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Britt is an amazing person - the most efficient woman on earth, an fantastic blogger, and all-around fun to be with! She her day job is to blog and she does a terrific job at NetSquared and BlogHer. Her personal blog , Have Fun Do Good , is a must read. Over the summer, I had an opportunity to meet her in person.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

NetChick: This Chick's Life. I'm 38, and I've been blogging my personal life for 11 years. I'm passionate about writing, technology, and building communities both online and "in real life" My blog is " This Chick's Life. Diabetes has touched my life in several very personal ways.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Fitness with Heather , where she sends out weekly juicy tidbits on living a healthy, happy life (from drinking water , to easing body aches to laughter ). These thoughts changed how I moved, and dance became a self-conscious, self-critical experience, which was a bigger reflection on how I lived life and viewed myself within it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2007

Personal Information Technology Workshop ??? tools) can make their study, work, and life easier. Identify and interview 3-5 amazing Cambodian BlogHers and post on BlogHer site. Document the learnings from this personal fundraising campaign. I need your help. I'm raising $4,000 and the amazing folks at ChipIn.

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MAY 16, 2012

And it’s a sweet life to have been able to turn service into a supportive business model. Learning how to tell a personal story is a powerful tool for healing. And the fastest way to long term fulfillment is to seek the happiness of others, he said. The idea that pleasure is more deeply inherent in service than selfishness thrills me.

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MARCH 10, 2011

The work I do as a Coach and as a Ceremonialist has everything to do with helping people hone their personal values and then bring them to life.

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MAY 27, 2009

to, "How do I live my life?" There are very few things in life that are 100% guaranteed, which is scary, but if you have a big dream for your future, chances are achieving it will involve taking some risks and leaps of faith. Members of Generation Y are looking for jobs with a work-life balance. Cross-posted from BlogHer.

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MARCH 8, 2011

My personal problems, pain, issues and petty worries are swept away as virtual strangers come together to build community. I see life and humanity at its best. Unselfish compassion and love for another human being is beautiful, and it’s my religion. There is joy on the work site and prayers of love lifted as houses are created.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

Alexandra closes her post with some great questions: What did you do today that moved your work, your organization or your personal practice forward? Maybe we should consider adding it to BlogHers Act ? You can find her Facebook, Twitter, blogs, wikis, Second Life and many other online communities. Cross posted at BlogHer.

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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. Perhaps my friend, John Weeks, in the photograph above has the precise definition. Her short, pithy, and witty posts are not only fun to read, but also very informative. I love her authentic style.

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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 ). Britt Bravo on her personal blog. As of today, contributors have helped me raise $381 towards the $750 goal.

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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. Life in Africa. LiA makes a great gift because it's not just a gift, it's an experience.

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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. 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. s very difficult to decide which to attend. This year, I finally got an opportunity to attend.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Life slows down. At Blogher Unconference, Leslie Madsen Brooks (who works with university faculty to help them make their instruction more thoughtful and who is also a dog lover ) put up a session called "Slow Blogging. Flickr Photo by Beth. It is always a sad time of year for me. That's my favorite photo of her.

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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. Holly Ross. is the executive director of NTEN and expert in everything nonprofit tech. Megan Keane blogs at TechSoup community site. Rachel Weidinger.

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APRIL 17, 2009

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. For the past ten years, I had focused my personal and professional life on the ultimate importance of creative expression, but something didn't feel right.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

Britt Bravo on her personal blog. smArts & Culture FiSpace Micropersuasion E-politics. Ricardo Carreon. Solution Grove. Mongkol, a Cambodian college student who is studying in the US on a Fullbright Scholarship and knows the importance of a college education had this to say.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2007

Right before he bolted to watch the Red Sox Game, I was chatting with Bryan Person at the Saturday evening party. David Eckoff shared a story about his email addiction and how he kicked the habit and got his life under control. " She works as a virtual personal assistant. I gave the Social Media Metrics session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

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." Opening Event for Nonprofit Commons in Second Life is on Tuesday, August 14 at 5:30 PST.

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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. I probably should stop, but if you want to focus on what women are blogging about in the nonprofit space, check out the blogher ngo/npo blogroll. I didn't see that practically a week ago, Nancy White, tagged me with the NGO/NPO Memo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

Nedra Weinreich, Spare Change Blog Nedra Weinreich was one of the first nonprofit tagged blogs that I discovered while browsing the blogher blogroll a few months back. As you'll note from that article, Nedra has also been exploring Second Life and we bumped into each other at the TechSoup space there where we completed our interview.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

I attended the " Twenty-Something Meet Up " at the BlogHer Conference. She is a real community person and is often promoting other people's projects. If I was working for a nonprofit that was doing a job search for a technologically savvy marketing person, I wouldn't even both posting a job description - I just hire her.

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OCTOBER 22, 2008

She is looking for personal stories about the healing power of giving from people who have completed the Challenge. I have multiple sclerosis, and my life was in a very awful place. A lot of wonderful things have happened in my life. You know, this is totally a personal belief that I'm going to spout off here [laughs].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

I've been an educator for pretty much all of my adult life (even at Bennington, I was a tutor, and taught some classes in technology.) At this point in my life, I'm not worrying about getting business so much - I'm thinking a lot more about a bigger picture of things, and assuming that it will all work out in the end.

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MAY 25, 2011

Nancy Schwartz of the Getting Attention blog, and host of the June Nonprofit Blog Carnival , has asked bloggers to share their "one book" recommendations: What single book (not blog, not conversation, not Facebook page) has changed your life as a nonprofit staffer, consultant or vendor? What book changed your life?

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MAY 10, 2006

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 there is a person who is interested in organizing, but they can’t come to your trainings, what are some action steps they can take?

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JUNE 19, 2009

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. He was the first person that we sponsored to our High School Education Program, and he was able to complete his education. It has been going on my whole life. Cross-posted from BlogHer.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2010

I've narrowed it down to 7 ways to have fun and do good , that can be mixed and matched: Personal choices (e.g. Elisa Camahort Page, BlogHer It is my absolute honor to help people find pieces of peace within, while outwardly expressing this life process though dance with our bodies. Heather Meyer, Work It Out!

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APRIL 24, 2007

BB: Can you share a story of how a family's life has been changed for the better by Fair Trade? She's the first person in the history of this entire area to go on to college. 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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NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Last week, after the election, BlogHer co-founder Lisa Stone, asked What Will You Do To Change America? You hear them speak, or you read their book, or you listen to your podcast, and then you generally write to that person, or you go up to them, rush them at the end of a speech and say, "I'm a student, I want to get involved."

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JANUARY 31, 2006

Two projects supporting women bloggers launched yesterday, the new Blogher network and the Young Caucasus Women Project. Personal Politics & News Race & Ethnicity Religion & Spirituality Research & Academia Sex & Relationships Technology & Web Travel & Recreation World In addition, they have blogrolls of women bloghers in each category.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

I like to call it passion for life." I make my living by bringing my past experience and my life???s How does being in emergency management as a profession influence your home/personal life? Being in this profession definitely influences my personal life. " I am very fortunate. s passions together.

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