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Learnings and Reflections from BlogHer about Mobile Phones for Video Blogging and Beyond

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While I was in Chicago, Ryanne Hodson , who I met at last year's BlogHer, is in Cambodia and Southeast Asia with Jay Dedman to document the work of Project Hope International. The back story is here ). As always, I got a lot out of BlogHer, so I wanted to capture here in case anyone else is wondering about this topic.

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Guest Post by Cheryl Contee: I Am Mommy, Hear Me Roar

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I just got back from BlogHer , the largest gathering of female bloggers in America. According to Katie Couric who recorded a special clip from the set of CBS Evening News for BlogHer 2008 (as seen above), 36 million women write or read blogs each week. You can get up-to-speed with BlogHer '09 through their official liveblogs.

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Is some big old mean (ahem) commercial scavenger getting fabulously rich off of my photos?

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Beth Kanter's photo of Marc Canter in flickr - please read comments for attribution. That's a photo I took of Marc Canter at the first Blogher Conference in July, 2005 I put it in flickr with an "All Rights Reserved" license which is the flickr default. The photo looked familiar and I realized, Oh My God, it's mine!

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Let’s Talk About Networked Nonprofits: TechSoupGlobal Book Party

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I got to snap this photo of two women, Marnie Webb and Charlene Li , who have greatly influenced my work over the past 5-10 years. I’ve been following Charlene Li’s work since I heard her keynote at the BlogHer 2005 conference. I got share a wonderful story about Pratham Books. Small world.

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How do networks sustain themselves (financially)?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of conversation threads was about how to make the story of how this network works more visible - and how a network goes about resourcing itself. The session I did at Blogher was about tools for community fundraising (Marnie Webb set up a wiki with notes and links). We talked a lot about gift economies, storytelling, and some web2.0

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Liz Strauss and Chris Brogan Share Some Thoughts About Social Media Listening: I'm All Ears

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Flickr Photo by PaulGi. Last year, I was in a room at the BlogHer Conference where there was a discussion about how we might focus BlogHers Act Campaign on maternal health. After about 45 minutes of discussion, I remember Liza Sabater made a few point, telling a story first that helped bring everyone to agreement.

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Looking for Fun Blogging Gig

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As many of you know, in addition to writing for Have Fun * Do Good, I am also a Contributing Editor, with Beth Kanter , for the Social Change and Nonprofit section of BlogHer. Many of my coaching clients are artists, I worked for six years in arts education at Streetside Stories , and I produce the Arts and Healing Podcast.

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