Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

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. Ultimately, it takes a willingness to allow some failures to occur, but allow those failures to be educational for a community. I think that is something that we all learn growing up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I wrote a reflection on an article in CNET called " Crowded Roads Ahead for Charity 2.0 " based on an interview with Toby Daniels of Think Social and Scott Harrison of charity:water. Photo by Thomas Hawk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Viirak interviewed her during the video blogging workshop) She presented in the morning of the first day about why blogging has been useful to her. Some points that DeeDee made that perfectly illustrate the usefulness of blogs in educational context: Blogging helped her English improve. Helped with her IT assignments.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

Below is an e-interview with another woman making a difference in Mali, Caitlin Cohen, one of two US coordinators of the Sigida Keneyali Project. If you know of a woman doing amazing, world changing work that you think I should interview, please email me at britt AT brittbravo DOT com. What is the Sigida Keneyali Project?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2007

key themes from focus group interviews: Participants felt a ???common I'm thinking about the interview that I had with Jon Udell. where we talked a lot about the job of educating people about the possibilities of new technologies like Web 2.0 In Cambodia, NGO staffers were eager to learn about Web 2.0 Some of the.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

So, I took the extra step of an interview. and education to a child for a month. I also tracked down the avatar in Second Life and did an interview with the people from NGO involved in this campaign. Our priority wasn't raising money - we've raised enough for a month of sponsorship - 20 euros. The homeless.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

There's an interesting idea for "emergency NGO in a box" in the notes about Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance Tools and an interview with Gregg Swanson of HumiNet by Britt Bravo from the Summit. ZdNet post raises the question "Salesforce.com pulls back on releasing subscriber totals; is that worrisome?"

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 14, 2006

I was thrilled when Catherine Conover, the Assistant Managing Editor & Communications Coordinator for New Moon magazine, contacted me and suggested that Nancy Gruver, the founder of New Moon, would be a great Solutionary Woman to interview. Raising the funds to reach as many people as possible. dad daughter girl women empower

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Someone tagged the NGO-in-a-Box with nptech just today. And speaking of celebrities and fundraising , Frogloop, tells us how to leverage them to raise more dollars for nonprofits. For more on the topic, read this interview from the Six Degrees of Seperation. Trish Perkins offers up a list "cool free tech tools."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

For more on that topic, read the excellent interview with Carie Lewis of the HSUS here. And, looking at the list, it's only US-based charities) He raises a great question that gets beyond the scoreboard, numbers only focus of his approach: "Don't you think that they might have lessons to teach all of us?"

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 10, 2006

Last week I sat down with a former co-worker, Mei-ying Ho, who is now the Co-Director of SOUL , for an interview for my Big Vision podcast. We focus on political education and organizer skills trainings, and we definitely think it is critical to see the fusion of those two things. SOUL is a training center based here in Oakland.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Department of Education gave us a major award on September 28, 2007. The project has been so successful at raising student reading skills that they hope to provide similar services to their non-disabled students as well. This event was very exciting, as we have never previously received federal funding for Bookshare.org.

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