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If English is your Second Language, What Language do you blog in?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here is the case for both sides, bulleted: Why blog in English: You can also blog in your own language, but when you blog in English, you???re You are making Cambodia more visible on Google and you are portraying Cambodia from a local???s Your language has your culture in it. Language and culture go together.

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Blogging To Improve Cambodia's Environment

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She has been blogging about her work and life at Sreisaat Adventures in Cambodia since January, 2004. She moved to Cambodia in April, 2000. How and why did you find yourself in Cambodia? My sister was working for an NGO as a volunteer agriculturist in Cambodia and encouraged me to take a job there. Mlup Baitong???s

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Cambodia has faster growing number of open source software users?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Noy Shoung also predicts that by 2006 more computer users in Cambodia will be using Open Source software versus Microsoft. This came from an article in the Phnom Penh Post, an English language newspaper, published in Cambodia and was excerpted by Tharum's blog. distribution that is currently being translated into Khmer language.

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What do Twitter, Books, Wine, and Fundraisers have in Common?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Together we'll be making some awesome wine over the course of a year to benefit @ roomtoread , and with each case sold they'll be able to supply about 60 local language children's books to educate the 300 million kids around the world who can't read. Good wine has never been better! And, with a donation - you get a bottle of wine too!

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Cambodia Bloggers Summit: Social Media Role Play, Social Media Game, and Angkun - Seeds of the Future

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The game has been remixed into different languages and used in different training contexts, but this is the first time it has been to Southeast Asia. Maybe my next visit to Cambodia I will have time to get to local market and pick some up for souvenirs. My group was assigned to "Social Media."

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Keep the World Talking - Support Global Voices

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. I remember first coming across it back in 2005 when it was just a simple blog hosted at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. at Harvard University.

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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

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TechSoup Asia Asia is a nonprofit collaborative venture between TechSoup Global and its local nonprofit organization partners, Connecting Up Australia and the Hong Kong Council of Social Service. English is increasingly favored as a second language. Our New NGO Partners in Vietnam. There are 54 ethnic groups in Vietnam.