Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2005

ClockLink.com provides analog and digital clocks that you can easily embed in your web page with any time zone of the world. I can answer the question "What time is it in Cambodia?" The world clock site made it easy to figure out what time zone Phnom Penh, Cambodia (GMT + 7:00). " without missing a beat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

This past year took me to London to teach nonprofit leaders at workshops on digital strategy hosted by LinkedIn and Social Misfits, and to Cambodia to teach a series of workshops for Women’s Rights NGOs hosted by Wake International. What about you? What will you accomplish in 2017?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2005

For months, I've been tagging urls that I found interesting about Cambodia into delicious with the cambodia tag and checking what else was tagged. I took a closer look at KnowProse which is focused on ICT/Digital Divide issues. A while back, I asked Alexandra Samuels to answer this question: why delicious ? But this has changed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

At the beginning of the summer, I taught a master class and workshops with colleague Tharum Bunn from Cambodia at the IFC/Asia. At the Digital Forum Session at the IFCAsia, we did the Spectagram twice to help to identify different skill levels of participants and their organizations capacity levels. Here’s what I learned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2012

Note from Beth: Just as I was leaving for Cambodia, there was a great discussion within a comment thread over on my blog brand page on Facebook in reaction to post about the HSUS Facebook post that went viral. Darren accepted my offer to share a post to deepen the discussion about engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

August 31st: Cambodia Bloggers Awards Ceremony. The idea for the kits came from the video blogging community when I blogged about wanting to see more video blogging in Cambodia and through the generosity of Coffee with Doug video blog, I sent over 3 camera kits with Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson to the Sharing Foundation's computer school.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2012

Effective social media outreach takes at least 25 hours of staff time per week, according to the Ditch Digital Dabbling research report. An organization dedicated to “never again” a genocide — such as those in Europe, Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur — must raise awareness and advocate with as much energy as it raises money.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2008

When we decided to adopt from Cambodia, we tried to learn as much as possible about the country. Dith Pran came to a New Year's Celebration at a friend's home that included many children adopted from Cambodia. I remember showing Dith Pran my digital camera and he showed him nikon digital camera. Harry did not cooperate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2013

When he was almost 80, he and my mother accompanied my husband and I to Cambodia to adopt our first child, Harry. He gave Harry his first bath and soothed him by holding him and dancing around singing “ I’m Just Wild About Harry ” that I captured my first digital camera.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2015

Generation Z, the heirs to the digital empire built by Generation X and expanded by Millennials, is made up of people who don’t just spend time online—they live there. Case in point: In 2014, Noah Wong visited Cambodia and India and discovered kids his own age (and younger) were growing up in prisons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2006

Image from Internet Village Motoman project in Ratanakiri Village in Cambodia The above image is from the Ratanakiri Village project in Cambodia. The village is located in a remote region of Cambodia's northeast. There are no highways, no electricity, and villagers life a simple life. You can also request a CD-ROM version.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2007

That's a video blog post I did to demonstrate how a simple technique for creating effective videos using your cell phone or digital camera and placing it one the web, in this example, on YouTube. While the workshop wasn't a handson video workshop, I did something along those lines in Cambodia - the curriculum is here.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

One of the ideas I've been exploring is the whole notion of video blogging from Cambodia by Cambodians. 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. I'm going to the Cambodian Blogger Summit in a few weeks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2006

Would love to see something like this in Cambodia and perhaps is a step towards comprehensive connectivity ? The eTUKTUK is a community building initiative that aims to converge the technological benefits of digital communications and new media with community radio. photo from the E-Tuk Tuk project I just had to blog it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2006

Her focus is on "the ways that digital tools, particularly social media, are enhancing our connectedness to one another and our ability and willingness to work for the collective social good." When my son, who was born in Cambodia, lost his tooth, I turned to social media to help him learn about Cambodia customs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2005

In isolated and rural areas of third world countries like Cambodia, where electricity and power lines are not available, not very reliable or expensive, alternative sources such as solar or battery power are employed. But now comes the possibility of running your computer and getting on the Internet using, well, poop.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

VietNet-ICT’s vision is to narrow the digital divide by providing ICT access to poor people in Vietnam. Digital Divide nonprofits nonprofit foundations IT communications Technology tsfoundationsorg TechSoup Asia Vietnam Indonesia' Badminton and football (the soccer version) are the two most popular sports in Indonesia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2008

Mam Sary also received several of the video cameras Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson brought over to Cambodia last July donated by Doug from the video blogging community. It became clear that social media in Cambodia means "any media that can solve social issues." The bad health effects of smoking).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

David Saski from Global Voices and who is running the Rising Voices project will also be at the Cambodia Bloggers Summit in Phnom Penh next week. He's over in Thailand now, but was glad to see he had Internet access - looks like free wifi too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

And, next week, nonprofits and bloggers in Southeast Asia and Cambodia will be gathering for the Cambodia Bloggers Summit. Lots of buzz on listservs and twitter about the MacArthur Foundation's $2 Million New Digital Media and Learning Competition. Follow her trail here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2007

Digital Divide Data's Project: A Networking Resources for Disadvantaged People in Cambodia and Laos. Community Technology Centres for Children And Young Adults in Low and Moderate Income Communities in Madurai India. Community-Owned Telecenter Project in Malawi. Farmer 2 Farmer Learning. Foik Micro-Philanthropy Network. ManorMeta.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2005

Here's the description of the project purpose from the site: The KhmerOS project was born from our dream for the state of computer technology in Cambodia in three years. Here's the link to the draft of the master plan for implementing open source in Cambodia. I came across this one for Khmer Open Source Project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

We talked about Cambodia and one of the questions was (an excellent one), what do teachers need to think about if they are doing an over the web collaborative project with a classroom in the developing world. One of my best sources is, of course, Andy Carvin's digital divide category on his blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

Several months ago my colleague Mary Joyce (who I met at the Global Voices Summit in London in 2005 ) and who is now at the Berkman Center pinged me and asked if I knew any digital activists in Southeast Asia. taking place across various social media sites, including Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 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. My thoughts are still half-way around the world in Cambodia and, in the US, we don't have the added challenge of a slow Internet connection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2006

I've been preparing a story about nonprofit blogging and professional development based on a colleague's experience in Cambodia for an upcoming NTC panel -- so I was stroke by his words: "I feel as if half the learning I???ve with art teachers on the issue of integrating digital tools into their instruction. and the lack of time.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2008

Phymean Noun "Growing up in Cambodia, Phymean Noun struggled to complete high school. I've included part of the nominees' profiles below, as they are written up on the site, but added links to their organizations and projects where I could find them. Liz McCartney "Dedicated to helping Hurricane Katrina survivors in St. Her nonprofit St.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2006

In Cambodia? In Harry's class, there is a large computer and I can put the images in powerpoint: Inquiry questions: How do we celebrate New Year's in America? How it different in Asia? Gung Hay Fat Choy - What does it mean? The Animal Zodiac - Year of the Dog. What's your year? How families celebrate?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 28, 2005

In less than 24 hours, I have had conversations about how to set up the ideal next generation foundation (so we can make helpful suggestions to the Google founders), how to bring digital books to the blind in Egypt, job creation in Cambodia, putting an incredible Paraguayan social entrepreneur's successes into wider distribution, tough political stands (..)

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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. This may not make any sense. maybe the fog will lift as jet lag dissipates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

In 1996, when the first digital cameras and web cams out - I got one. I used my webcam attached my laptop as my first digital camera to record photos from a conference that I was taking notes for - and then publishing as web pages. I hope to get back to Cambodia -- with social media slant. The Typo Police Page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2009

Photo emailed from Cambodia by Elephant, Sharing Foundation 's in-country director In this post, I share some learnings as a free agent fundraise r (an individual who uses personal fundraising to raise money for a charity) who is leveraging their personal network to support a nonprofit's programs that help children in need.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

There are 15 projects in the competition, all with a mission of ending traffiking and slavery, including an entrant from Cambodia. Amy Sample Ward , filling in for Britt Bravo, writes about several awards and competitions including the UK Catalyst Awards and Simon Fairway's pointer to the digital makeover contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

The MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning Competition includes a "Knowledge-networking" category designed to take good ideas and circulates them widely, taking full advantage of the Web's potential for collaborative thinking. Check the web site for the application and more details.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

ErikaBJune shines a spotlight on virtual world and digital games for change projects. Andy Carvin and Jonnie Goldstein interviewed a person from one of two projects based in Cambodia. Transparency is the New Black: My Top 5 Plus 1 (That will be the name of a book title in six months.!)

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

One of my business visits was to a long-standing social enterprise partner of ours, Digital Divide Data in Vientiane, Laos. I wrote about that visit in my last blog post: Digital Divide Data: our Partner in Laos. As I said to the DDD team, we love to make our money work twice as hard by choosing social enterprises as vendors.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 30, 2012

.' At our Women's Library in Cambodia, interactive, user-friendly technologies, like this 'computer pen' that teaches reading and pronunciation, enable women to learn at their own pace, without feeling intimidated or embarrassed," says Daniel Ostenso, president of GETSET-GO.

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