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AUGUST 21, 2008

Basically, a couple months before your book's release you contact bloggers, podcasters and vloggers whose audiences are a good fit for your book and ask them if they would like to interview you, review your book, have you guest post, or host an interactive event with you using a service like Gabbly. Flickr photo contest.

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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. Help Special Needs Children Improve Social Skills. Adopt An Acre of Rainforest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

In addition to the loan, the money raised will also provide enterprise development services, including training in business and management skills, social and community issues such as health, sanitation and community participation - and personal development. "  Now, like other contributors, all I need is a sentence and a visual.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

Another example of using a wiki to organize captured notes was Amy Gahran's wiki of all the blog posts and notes from the recent Blogher conference, compiled post-event and facilitated by the use a conference tag. Take for example these two nonprofit oriented conferences: Games for Change and Nonprofit Technology Conference.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 22, 2007

Thanks to a referral from fellow BlogHer, Tara Hunt , I had the opportunity to fill in for a panelist at the Bioneers Conference yesterday--an annual meeting of environmental and social justice activists. Photo of Heirloom Tomatoes by me. For me, the highlight of the day was hearing Winona LaDuke's talk, "Seeds the Creator Gave Us."

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AUGUST 31, 2006

You will learn about the different types and uses of blogs, why it is as important to read blogs as it is to write for one, how to add photos to your blog posts, and how to increase your blog traffic. Each student will create a Blogger blog during class. She also produces her own Big Vision Podcast.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 23, 2006

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. Sometimes it’s hard to get up in the morning and be fearless, to have courage, to care.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2008

For many years, I've organized a pre-conference event called the Day of Service , an opportunity for nonprofit techies to share their expertise or volunteer for a local organization on a specific project. I wrote about the experience on BlogHer last week. They also observe that the City???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

As Katya herself explains in a May interview with fellow Blogher Nonprofit Contributing Editor Britt Bravo "It lays out ten sound principles (I call them "Robin Hood Rules") behind some of the most successful marketing campaigns in history, and shows how anyone can use them to advance their cause by leaps and bounds.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Last week, after the election, BlogHer co-founder Lisa Stone, asked What Will You Do To Change America? Well, when he announced that to his church, they did 40 days of community service, and 10,000 people signed up. Photo: The Engage Network Founders: Marianne Manilov, Ina Pockrass and Alissa Hauser. Cross-posted from BlogHer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2006

Lasica at the 2006 Blogher Conference where I found out about his one his projects on ourmedia - the Personal Media Learning Center. - how to weave in other clips and photos seamlessly. a "Democratic knowledge clearing house." Meanwhile, JD Lasica has written an excellent how to piece that was published on TechSoup.

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MARCH 8, 2007

Check out our local spotlight with great action photos on our site. I looked on Craigslist to find a ride back home to California, where I grew up, and found a post for a woman with a CODEPINK truck who was offering her truck as a moving service to help fund her trip from California, and her activist work. Cross-posted from BlogHer.

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