Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 5, 2007

Many organizations expressed the real difficulties of using technologies with constituents or in countries where the digital divide is very real and their constituents may be at risk of punishment by local governments for their activism. As one participant said, ???Money Money is the ultimate user generated content.??? versus web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I have two favorites: The Sharing Foundation which supports children in Cambodia and Creative Commons. The Fellows provide much needed energy, expertise and enthusiasm while being exposed to to the compelling, challenging, essential and often dangerous work done by campaigners for human rights and social justice. Can I Sit With You?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2008

We take the kids there regularly to shop at the Cambodian grocery store, get our haircuts at the Cambodian beauty shop, and eat some beef lo lac at one of the local restaurants. In the grocery store, I saw the above fund raising campaign to support a local temple. Cambodia's child mortality rate is among the world's highest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

I love designing and delivering trainings on social media and the added challenge of working outside of the US. I am also very transparent with the audience about the challenges of "lost in translation" and include discussion questions like 'How does this translate to an Indian context?". It always helps me improve practice.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

Off the Mat, Into the World is an educational, experiential and motivational process for people interested in conscious activism and service. Below is an edited transcript of our conversation, which began with Seane talking about Off the Mat, Into the World's origins, and the Seva Challenge. We raised around $60,000 doing very little.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

You can also see if there is a local charity that you bring items to in your own world travels. Tactical Philanthropy continues the One Post Challenge with a post titled " Beyond Hacking Philanthropy " from Kevin Jones from Good Capital and who blogs xchangexchange. And you don't have purchase new stuff to give a gift.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2006

Coming from a background in developing and implementing programs, it was a challenge to shift to the operations side of the non-profit world. Later, they learned that it happened again and again – in the cases of Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda - and it was still happening but nobody was doing anything about it.

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