Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Over the last year, the work of Traveling Postcards keeps crossing my path, so I asked its founder, Caroline Lovell, to share with us: How Traveling Postcards works The path that brought her to this work Her favorite Traveling Postcards success story How we can get involved with Traveling Postcards I've posted her answers below.

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Costa Rica Interview Afghanistan Artist 60

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

Now don’t get me wrong, I love you people. There’s these kids sitting at the other lunch tables in our global cafeteria. An ecosystem where its members connect, interact, and support not just the people in their circles but people they ‘bump into’ based on some ‘random’ interest and connection. That is a huge mistake.”

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Change Haiti Darfur Music 88

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people.

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Disaster Social Media Haiti Media 206

Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

Anyone could call in and hear an update about developments on the ground in Darfur and Congo, and upcoming legislation, events and campaigns. After the call I started wondering, "How do you activate more people to contribute to the solution of a problem that is so horrific it paralyzes people into inaction?"

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Darfur Kiva Mobile Donor 40

Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

She went from being somebody's servant to somebody who when she walks down the street of her community, people stop her and shake her hand and thank her for the stories that she is telling, or ask, 'When are you going to interview me? I have a story that you have to hear.'" CH: Right, exactly. Well, they are all of the above.

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Interview Nepal Journal San Francisco 40

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

Kjerstin Erickson is one of those people "shiny" people who lights up a room. After meeting her at the Global Engagement Summer last spring, I knew I wanted to grab her for an interview before she became too famous. Saturday, June 20th is World Refugee Day , and this year's theme is "Real People, Real Needs."

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Interview Sudan Africa Congo 40

Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

I just had to take that chance." - Jensine Larsen Jensine Larsen is the Founder and CEO of World Pulse , a global media and communication network devoted to bringing women a global voice. Jensine Larsen: World Pulse is a global media enterprise fully devoted to bringing women a global voice. It had hit India.

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Voice Global Saudi Arabia Journal 69