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SXSW 2013 – Social by Global: Failure Is Not An F-Word!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I do, however, run into good friends who work in the technology and social media sector – such as Chris Prillo who was vlogging this year’s SXSW. This post is to share my deck and comments from my lighting talk about failure at Good by Global at SXSW. How can we improve the activity the next time we do it?

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Reflections from Global s London Summit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm just back from the Global s Summit in London. I think it was more intense than a Westerner's culture shock visiting Cambodia for the first time. I vlogged it here: Download cultureshock.wmv. I vlogged some of the friday night informal dinner - global dining partners - Download globaldinningpartners.wmv.

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Win a Trip to Report for the NYT with Nicholas Kristof

Have Fun - Do Good

In today's Sunday New York Times article , Win a Trip You Won't Forget , two-time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Nicholas Kristof , writes, "[I]f you want to save the world, you first must understand it." The student reporter will blog and vlog for nytimes.com.

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The Art of the Backchannel at Conferences: Tips, Reflections, and Resources

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

See Dave Winer's comments here, or as someone on the vlog list "Fighting for civilty using rudeness.". I remember in 2005 the Global Voices Summit used IRC as a backchannel -- no so much for people in the room, but for remote participation. Warning she says the F-word on the clip.) One of the reflections.

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It's all about the learning and insomnia

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Sometimes the "channel" can be a wall and other times it can be a bridge. " The best technique I've seen was at the Global s Summit in London -- where there was a "Chat /IRC Advocate" in the room who monitored the chat/IRC and asked questions on behalf the chat paticipants and typed in the answers.