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What I Learned About Philanthropy, Fundraising, and Social Impact at IFCAsia in Bangkok

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These are two photos of me and Tharum Bun , a Cambodia blogger I met via our blogs back in 2003. In 2005, we got a chance to meet face-to-face in London at the Global Voices Blogging Summit after I transitioned from being the Cambodia bridge blogger. The IFCAsia delivered on all the reasons why someone should attend.

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Some Thoughts About Remote Presentations: Mekong ICT Camp

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This event is a biannual training workshop on information, communication, and technologies for citizen media, community health, and civil society development in Mekong Region and included participants are coders, journalists, and NGO staff from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. Photo by Be Chandra.

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The Last Blogpotomac: A New Community Rises from the Ashes

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Flickr Photo by Ghbrett. followed by 20-30 minutes of discussion with the audience facilitated by the hosts. The strong community vibe in the room was inspiring and comfortable. Since this was the last BlogPotomac (read this insightful post about why), the community self-organized a wake after the conference.

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How Arts Organizations Win Gold Medals in Social Media

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Flickr Photo - Of Small Things. Note from Beth: I missed out on the Olympics in London this year while I was traveling in Cambodia. While the world acclaimed sports event was taking place in London, the Gay Chorus Olympics was taking place in Denver.

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Thank You Fernanda Ibarra: She's Number 7!

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Full Size Photo here. We met almost two years ago when we took the online facilitation workshop with Nancy White. I am a multiplayer giving a lot of focus into the Web (online communities, socialnetworks, collaborative learning). In her dorm room, she had photos of our family and my letters to her on the wall.

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I'm Speaking at SXSW About Nonprofits and Social Fundraising

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We connected through the "cambodia" tag on flickr because I was tracking it for Global Voices back in 2005. The first photo of hers from Cambodia was this one of the four monks crossing the street titled Abbey Road. Builds Community. Michaela is now director of online strategy for World Learning. Year round.

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Chris Brogan: What Were Your First Steps?

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Then I discovered the Internet and became the community builder for Arts Wire, an online network for artists that used a unix-based text conferencing system called Caucus. I think of those online communities as social media because it was all about conversation, getting to know people, and interacting. It was all about community.