Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Photo by Mean Lux used with permission. I'm doing a workshop in Cambodia called " Five Steps to Khmer 2.0 to Change The World I also created another version for University Extension professionals and one that focused on fundraising/marketing. What tools and techniques do you use to create good conversations on your blog?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

So, while I am delighted with the response to book , I’m even more pleased that the book is able to help young people in Cambodia. It’s made think about how far social fundraising has come in the last four years. Sharing knowledge, social media, and supporting young people in Cambodia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2008

They've just launched their online fundraising campaign to keep the world talking. I was thrilled to discover it because I had just started my " Cambodia For Kids " blog and thought it might help me connect with bloggers from Cambodia. That's a photo of me and Tharum , who started blogging in 2004.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2008

Photo by MeanLux. and video blogging workshops in Cambodia. I launched a personal fundraising campaign so I could help be a sponsor for the conference and get over there with video cameras, shwag (t-shirts and stickers donated by nonprofits and tech companies) and teaching resources. Meanwhile, enjoy these photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2013

The last good photo we took together was as “selfie,” although in 1963 we took one together using his Minox camera. I’m metabolizing my grief my doing this online fundraiser in his memory to raise money for ocean conservation for SurfRider Foundation as well as do a virtual paddle out via Twitter hashtag #OceanLoveEarl on July 3rd.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

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. re seeing less resistance as nonprofits witness the effectiveness of wired fundraisers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2007

From Nhung Son's Facebook Photos Two weeks ago, Blogger Michele Martin , set up an America's Giving Challenge widget for the Sharing Foundation to support the project over at Global Giving. For most children in Cambodia this is a story that is all too common. Other bloggers have also signed up to participate and many have.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Winners of the Creative Commons Photo Contest, 2006. In our family, I involve my kids in various fundraising activities - from Cambodia to Creative Commons. We have dinner table discussions on why it is important to support causes, particularly programs in Cambodia like the Sharing Foundation.

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JANUARY 29, 2008

The Sharing Foundation's mission is to help meet the physical, emotional, educational and medical needs of orphaned and seriously disadvantaged children in Cambodia. Beth is on the Board of the Foundation, and she and her husband have two children, Harry and Sara, who were adopted as orphans from Cambodia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

I was so delighted that I just had take a screencapture for my photo documentation and scrap blog I'm designing on. This will most certainly help word of our campaign reach many new people. Yep, it's working! Thanks Julia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

If you are reader of this blog, you are probably aware of the campaign I ran to raise money for Leng Sopharath's college tuition using the ChipIn fundraising widget. The photo above came in today's letter from Leng Sopharath. The photo above came in today's letter from Leng Sopharath.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

DC Metblogger Flickr Photo. But when I realized it would take a long time before a small NGO working in a country, like say, Cambodia, might be able to purchase a small number of them (less than 100) to outfit a school, I was disappointed. Almost exactly two years ago, the One Laptop Per Child launched. Tharum was disappointed too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

My most recent experiment involved Twitter, fundraising, and an integrated offline component at the Gnomedex Conference in Seattle. I was able to raise $2,657 to cover the costs of college tuition for Leng Sopharath, an orphan in Cambodia in just 90 minutes. Flickr photo by Beth. Click to see the larger image. It replicable?

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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

DECEMBER 29, 2006

Nancy Hendrie and Tep Vuthea Photo from flickr. Almost ten years ago, she founded a nonprofit organization, The Sharing Foundation , dedicated to meeting the physical, emotional, educational, and medical needs of orphaned and seriously- disadvantaged children in Cambodia. Why Cambodia? be it Cambodia, Africa or Haiti.???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2008

I celebrated with a flickr photo birthday card remix contest. That's a photo of me celebrating my 5th birthday oh so many years ago. It represents a new standard of hygiene, medical services, nutrition, and compassionate care for children in Cambodia. My birthday is on Friday, January 11th. Last year for the big 5.0,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Net2 Houston, August Photo by Eschipul Nonprofits in Second Life Gala Opening Photo by RubyJi By looking at the photos tagged with NpTech, nonprofit techies were either on vacation or attending events. Maybe next week we'll see photos from BarCampBlock ? Maybe next week we'll see photos from BarCampBlock ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Photo by Mr. Clean1982 The NpTech Tag Summary is a weekly compilation of resources tagged with "nptech" by those who follow all things nonprofits and social media. It probably isn't too early to start thinking about that busy year-end online fundraising season. posted Ten Tips for Journalists to Fundraise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

I thought top friends was a great way to acknowledge your donors, but if they privacy settings do not allow displaying their name/photo on your profile, you won't be able to add them to your list. Yesterday, the search function worked beautifully so you could drop names/photos in, but today it isn't working. I'm not sure why.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2007

He was the second person to donate to my latest personal fundraising campaign to support Leng Sopharath , an orphan from Cambodia, for her junior year at college. In her dorm room, she had photos of our family and my letters to her on the wall. He's one of my Facebook friends. He lives in Japan. He's a brilliant screencaster.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Check out the photo of my kids wearing one of her blog t-shirts). Again, as all fundraisers know, donor stewardship important. Again, as all fundraisers know, donor stewardship important. Contribute to my latest personal fundraising campaign to support Leng Sopharath , an orphan from Cambodia, for her junior year at college.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Whether I'm fundraising for Cambodia or Creative Commons , I involve my kids. We have dinner table discussions on why it is important to support causes, particularly programs in Cambodia like the Sharing Foundation. I baked a lot of cupcakes with my mom for those bake sales. But it doesn't involve baking cupcakes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2007

She is the first to contribute to my latest personal fundraising campaign to support Leng Sopharath , an orphan from Cambodia, for her junior year at college. In her dorm room, she had photos of our family and my letters to her on the wall. It's her birthday on Friday! So, why is my top friend? But don't take my word for it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Contribute to my latest personal fundraising campaign to support Leng Sopharath , an orphan from Cambodia, for her junior year at college. In her dorm room, she had photos of our family and my letters to her on the wall. I'm, of course, experimenting with person-to-person fundraising on Facebook and I'll share my learnings here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2007

Contribute to my latest personal fundraising campaign to support Leng Sopharath , an orphan from Cambodia, for her junior year at college. In her dorm room, she had photos of our family and my letters to her on the wall. I'm, of course, experimenting with person-to-person fundraising on Facebook and I'll share my learnings here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Full Size Photo here. Contribute to my latest personal fundraising campaign to support Leng Sopharath , an orphan from Cambodia, for her junior year at college. In her dorm room, she had photos of our family and my letters to her on the wall. Thank you Fernanda Ibarra. We connected on Facebook. Quote from her profile.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Contribute to my latest personal fundraising campaign to support Leng Sopharath , an orphan from Cambodia, for her junior year at college. In her dorm room, she had photos of our family and my letters to her on the wall. I'm, of course, experimenting with person-to-person fundraising on Facebook and I'll share my learnings here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2007

Contribute to my latest personal fundraising campaign to support Leng Sopharath , an orphan from Cambodia, for her junior year at college. In her dorm room, she had photos of our family and my letters to her on the wall. I'm, of course, experimenting with person-to-person fundraising on Facebook and I'll share my learnings here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2007

Contribute to my latest personal fundraising campaign to support Leng Sopharath , an orphan from Cambodia, for her junior year at college. In her dorm room, she had photos of our family and my letters to her on the wall. I'm, of course, experimenting with person-to-person fundraising on Facebook and I'll share my learnings here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2007

Photo from CC site - It didn't have a CC license, but I am assuming I can use it? launching Creative Commons' third annual fundraising campaign. I can't wait to add it to the series of photos of I have of my kids wearing CC t-shirts. from Creative Commons in my bills. Creative Commons? a physical, personally signed letter!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2008

I took that photo back in 2004 when I had the opportunity to visit Cambodia and observe all programs for a week. I probably would not have blogged about your fundraising effort if you had not sent a personal email to me requesting that I get involved. Heres a recent photo of Jack and Mom taken in December 2007.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Contribute to my latest personal fundraising campaign to support Leng Sopharath , an orphan from Cambodia, for her junior year at college. In her dorm room, she had photos of our family and my letters to her on the wall. I'm, of course, experimenting with person-to-person fundraising on Facebook and I'll share my learnings here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2007

Photo by Michaela Hackner, Kalabird. for fundraising strategies. for fundraising strategies. Through a strange twist of fate, I connected again with Kalabird one of the first ex-pat bloggers from Cambodia that I discovered in 2005 because of her amazing photographs in flickr. How did you end up in Cambodia?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2012

By the time you read this post, I’ll be in Cambodia. For those of you who have been following my blogging since 2004, you know why Cambodia is in my heart! We promised the monk that we would hold Cambodia in our hearts and travel back with our children to their birth country when they were old enough to appreciate it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Hey folks, personal fundraising solicitations still work! Contribute to my latest personal fundraising campaign to support Leng Sopharath , an orphan from Cambodia, for her junior year at college. In her dorm room, she had photos of our family and my letters to her on the wall. UPDATE: Wow, he's fast. He blogged it!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

I actually have a repertoire of stories, but one of them is about Michaela Hackner ( Kalabird.) I connected with her through her amazing photos of Cambodia on Flickr when I was covering the Cambodian blogosphere for Global Voices over five years ago. to help promote awareness of homelessness in America.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2008

The photo above is of me, Cheryl Hanback, and Joel Remigio from 2002 when we won the "Swimming Upstream Award" for the diligent staff person who worked on the Riders Conference to make it a success. We hold a fundamental belief that technology and all of its benefits must be made available to everyone??? MediaJumpStart, 2002).

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