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NPC Launch: Live Blogging Roundup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That's from tonight's opening launch party of the Nonprofits Commons in Second Life, TechSoup's project in Second Life. I am bringing a couple of Second Life t-shirts to Cambodia, thanks to Jeska Linden. Ruby Sinreich did an excellent job of live blogging. More about the project here.

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NpTechTag Summary: NpTech Events, Twitters, and Green Web Hosting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. And, next week, nonprofits and bloggers in Southeast Asia and Cambodia will be gathering for the Cambodia Bloggers Summit.

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More on Burma - Protests in Real Life and Online

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He points over to a post from Mean Lux in Cambodia and his flickr set. Now the online channel has breathed new life into this surging wave and brought with it Facebook events, Myspace groups, Razoo causes, BBC News feeds updated real-time, Twitter posts about Wear A Red Shirt This Friday For Burma and countless IMs???

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Why is Shirley Williams My Number 1 Top Friend on Facebook?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We've participated in online collaboration experiments in Second Life and we are friends on Facebook. 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. We met, I think, through CP Squared and Nancy White.

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Fundraising Widget Campaign: Success! Thank You! You Can Still Contribute!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And that's not all, the Sharing Foundation provides school uniforms (a requirement to enter school) to street kids in Cambodia so they can attend school. 's In addition, the Sharing Foundation is sponsoring 40 high school students and provides an English program in the Roteang Village School for over 500 kids. Ricardo Carreon. Solution Grove.

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NpTech Summary: Red T-Shirt Day - Supporting Monks, YouTube Nonprofit Channel, and Web2forDev Conference Reports

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Villoks Many people around the world are supporting the Monks in Burma by wearing red t-shirts today or participating in vigils like this one in Cambodia outside the Burma embassy. So, while it may very difficult to find Internet content from Burma, it is getting onto the Internet.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Free Ranger Rick, Green Geekery, and Blog Day is Next Week!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Cambodia Bloggers Summit and the Boliva Blogosphere will have their first ever bloggers conferences on Blog Day ! The Second Life Community Convention is taking place this weekend in Chicago. If your organization is based in the UK, the ICT Hub Unmet Needs Fund is now open for applications. All the candidates.

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