Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Friday after lunch and following the t-shirt giveaway, it was time to play the Khmer version of the Social Media Game. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

It's been almost two years since I had the opportunity to participate in the first Cambodia Blogging Summer. Now we have TweetCambodia that has become a gathering point for people interested in finding and following others who Tweet about or from Cambodia. The site's helpful FAQ offers four ways that you can Tweet from Cambodia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2007

My group was assigned to "Social Media." " It became clear that my understanding of " social media " was different from the rest of the group. In Cambodia, the term is defined as "any media that can solve social issues." and all thanks to Social Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2009

He has watched his mother celebrate her birthday and use it as an excuse to raise money for the Sharing Foundation , a charity that cares for kids in Cambodia. . The Sharing Foundation 's core volunteers are, like me, parents of adopted children from Cambodia. You can contribute to the Sharing Foundation here. . .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

I'm facilitating a couple of workshops as part of the Social Media track for annual conference for the Center for Nonprofit Excellence in Louisville, KY. The first is 90 minutes that is an introduction to strategic social media for nonprofits. The second session is the Kentucky Derby version of the Social Media Game.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2010

There was a $25 donation from Samathida Kem, the daughter of Kem Sokha, a human rights leader in Cambodia. I've never met them face-to-face, but almost four years to the day, our paths crossed virtually when their father, a human rights activist, was thrown in jail in Cambodia. Insight Prepare to be surprised!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

Ex-pats are people who are citizens from other countries, but are living in Cambodia. Details Are Sketchy is an anonymous blogger who writes about life in Cambodia. John Weeks (aka jinja ) has lived in Cambodia for a long time and has been blogging for many years. He is an active tagger and expert in social networking sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2008

Demetrio Maguigad , New Media Manager Community Media Workshop Almost two years ago,  I did a workshop with David Wilcox in Birmingham for LASA. We created a new game version ( Social Media Game ) based on those Drew Mackie and he had developed over the past 10 years. You can find David's training games here.)  

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

The book also has a social good purpose. I am donating my royalties to support the Sharing Foundation ‘s college education program for young people in Cambodia. My family is sponsoring Keo Savon , who we met this summer in Cambodia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2008

Part of the Hawaii Social Media Club Workshop.    The Social Media Game.   The game is intended to help you think through a social media strategy and share tips and knowledge. Next week, I'm bringing the game to Hawaii Social Media Club Workshop. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

You don’t necessarily have to do this with an online fundraising platform: you can start by using social media to encourage people to interact with and be vocal about your cause. Then tell these stories in multiple mediums: on your website, on your blog and in your social media channels, for example. Harrison has over 61.5k

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

Mandevu got one of the video cameras that I brought over to Cambodia last summer where I did the video blogging workshop for the Cloggers Summit. Read what Jinja had to say.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2007

Cambodian young people are joining the global conversation in the blogosphere and sharing their perspectives through different forms of grassroots citizen's media thanks to the efforts of a dedicated team of Cambodian bloggers. This team has been working on a voluntary basis to conduct 14 workshops called ??? Keynote welcome.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2010

But there is another very important personal reason to purchase the book on June 21st, I’m donating all of the proceeds from my share of the royalties to the Sharing Foundation , a nonprofit that cares for orphans in Cambodia. And if you are going to buy a copy, please wait until the party and purchase your copy on Amazon.

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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

MARCH 29, 2008

Last summer it was the Cambodia Blogger's Summit, this year might be BarCamp in Cambodia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

I was invited to present a key note at the Mekong ICT Camp in Thailand about nonprofits, social media, and measurement. Tharum Bun , a blogger in Cambodia that I have known for ten years, did an introduction and I presented for 25 minutes. Format: Our session was 90 minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2011

It’s been almost five years since my first foray into social fundraising to raise money from my friends and followers to send a young woman, Leng Sopharath to college. Ever since, I’ve continued to raise money for my favorite charity, the Sharing Foundation that takes care of children in Cambodia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

In less than 24 hours, I will be boarding a plane bound for Mumbai to present at the NASSCOM conference called NASSCOM India Leadership where I'll be on a panel on NGO and Social Media as well as lead a discussion at an unconference on whether CEO/Executive Director's should use social media. What to do?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2016

I have two adopted children from Cambodia, and both these young women lived in the same orphanage as my daughter. Education in Cambodia is the path out of poverty and I am grateful that the modest amount of royalties from book sales have helped these young women make a better life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2008

He used social media ( blog , vlog , wiki , flickr , couchsurfing , twitter , myspace , dopplr , and facebook ) to harness the collective knowledge of the globe, and reported weekly on seven topics of freedom. We both ate weird things in Cambodia. (Here's the official press release ). for less that $6.00 Click To Play.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

For example, Mark Horvath has put together a cookbook , filled with recipes from social media leaders, that is being sold on iTunes and is generating funding to help provide programs to homeless.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2007

I told him that I was going to Cambodia and bloggers from all over are sending me t-shirts for my suitcase. T-Shirt Donation! Originally uploaded by cambodia4kidsorg. A box of these t-shirts just arrived at my doorstep. The UPS man asked me what was going on! He looked at me in a funny way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2010

That means 454 youngsters will be able to attend school in Cambodia and hopefully, fine, a route out of poverty. But there was something else at play for me this year, my fourth, celebrating my birthday with social media and a networked fundraising campaign for the Sharing Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

You need to add Cambodia's voice to the global conversation happening on video blogs. I set up a series of compression tests and plan to see if play at all while in Cambodia. I should do that more often. I always like to start with the why. Note the cameras are very inexpensive. The compression is high.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

The video was taken with the inexpensive cameras I'm taking over to Cambodia. Here's the first draft of " Video Blogging in Cambodia " The purchase of these Video Blogging Kits was made possible by the readers of Beth's Blog who contributed to the campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 14, 2008

It was celebrated this past weekend in Cambodia. The photo was taken by Mongkol who is now back in Cambodia after spending two years in graduate school here in Boston. The photo was taken by Mongkol who is now back in Cambodia after spending two years in graduate school here in Boston. The Russey Keo. thousands???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2007

Ryanne Hodson and Jay Dedman were in Cambodia and are in Thailand right now. Click to Play. They are traveling with Christina Arnold from Project Hope to document her project. Here's the backstory about how they got there, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2016

Early last year my colleague Noel Dickover and his co-workers at PeaceTech Lab organized a workshop in Mumbai, India to help activists use technology and media to prevent gender based violence. Tech2Empower: Helping Women in Cambodia. For T2E Cambodia , the focus is human trafficking. The Tech Girls of Dharavi.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Click To Play Here a round up of some the fabulous women Bloghers in Cambodia and Linux Chix that I met. It had nothing to do with saving the world or strengthening Cambodia???s and Skype and everyone was impressed to see the possibilities of connecting with someone they knew from Cambodia who was in the US.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2015

Note from Beth: Next week, I’ll be keynoting the “ Future of Social Media Conference ” in London hosted by Social Misfits in partnership with Facebook, JustGiving, the Hospital Club Foundation, and the Guardian Voluntary Sector Network. “That’s why I need help from you!”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2010

It was more than a book promotion event – it was an opportunity to have an in-depth conversation with a peer (Peter) about social media. Nonprofit social media strategists who teach us everyday about how to build networks. We are very grateful to the Case Foundation for hosting a party to toast our book.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Just got this from David Bacon, founder of Carpets for Communities Hi Everyone, Help us free children in Cambodia from exploitation by taking 2 minutes to vote. The $5,000 prize money (and more importantly world-wide exposure) will all go towards freeing children from exploitation and getting them back to school in Cambodia.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2012

Now a parent with my own children, I involved my kids when they younger when I was fundraising for Cambodia or 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Click To Play Whenever I've travel over to Cambodia, I have the opportunity to check two large suitcases up to 70 pounds each. Since I could not visit Cambodia without carrying over some items for the Sharing Foundation, I had a third checked piece of luggage, a portable crib for orphanage.

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