Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2007

He's an editor at Global Voices and his personal blog, Better Days , where I first learned about RSS readers and how to use bloglines. Contribute to my latest personal fundraising campaign to support Leng Sopharath , an orphan from Cambodia, for her junior year at college.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2007

Benefits of Global Blogging: Dinner Companions No Matter Where You Go! I remember at the 2005 Global Voices Summit, Rebecca MacKinon made a toast to everyone and jokingly said that those who are involved with Global Voices will never lack for dining companions no matter where they go in the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2008

The impact of HIV and AIDS is felt by millions of people globally every day, particularly in countries like Cambodia. This awareness day can help bring much-needed global attention to the disease, particularly via the Internet. Published by Global Voices bloggers on World Aids Day 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

I met her in Cambodia last month. Update: Just found Preetaim Rai's roundup on Global Voices. Photo by Tharum , found on his Facebook Profile. That's Sopheap in the red shirt. I spotted this photo in Tharum's Facebook photos the title is "Quiet Vigil Outside Burma Embassy in Phnom Penh."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

Via Facebook updates, I learned from Tharum that Preetaim Rai, the Southeast Asia Editor for Global Voices, posts a roundup of protests and prayer vigils in neighboring countries. He points over to a post from Mean Lux in Cambodia and his flickr set. My previous coverage: Why Sopheap Wearing A Red T-Shirt Virtual Red T-Shirts

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

I just finished doing a training for Open Society Institute media and information coordinators on social media with colleague, David Sasaki , from Global Voices. I've known since 2005 and I realized that the last time I had seen him was in 2007 in Cambodia at the blogging conference and over an interesting dinner served by our hosts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

August 31st: Cambodia Bloggers Awards Ceremony. The idea for the kits came from the video blogging community when I blogged about wanting to see more video blogging in Cambodia and through the generosity of Coffee with Doug video blog, I sent over 3 camera kits with Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson to the Sharing Foundation's computer school.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

After significant peer pressure from the crew at Global Voices , I had no choice but to eat it. It reminded of the last time I was in Cambodia. Harry always asked, "Mommy, if I lived in Cambodia, would we be eating bugs for lunch." Read what Sopheap had to say. " I answered no.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

David Saski from Global Voices and who is running the Rising Voices project will also be at the Cambodia Bloggers Summit in Phnom Penh next week. Jay Dedman recently asked about linux video editing tools on the Rising Voices list: Does anyone here use Linux to edit video? and speak spanish?)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

I first met Jen at BlogHer in Chicago last summer at the Global Women's panel. Georgia Popplewell from Global Voices asked people if they would consider donating their schwag for the Cambodian bloggers conference. Jen gave me several T-shirts she picked up from some of the exhibitors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

We connected through the "cambodia" tag on flickr because I was tracking it for Global Voices back in 2005. The first photo of hers from Cambodia was this one of the four monks crossing the street titled Abbey Road. Human Voice. Michaela is now director of online strategy for World Learning. Year round.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

Several months ago my colleague Mary Joyce (who I met at the Global Voices Summit in London in 2005 ) and who is now at the Berkman Center pinged me and asked if I knew any digital activists in Southeast Asia. taking place across various social media sites, including Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

I actually have a repertoire of stories, but one of them is about Michaela Hackner ( Kalabird.) I connected with her through her amazing photos of Cambodia on Flickr when I was covering the Cambodian blogosphere for Global Voices over five years ago.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

That’s where I first discovered and connected with the Global Voices Community around my interests in Cambodia. (I’m The last time I had a discussion at the Berkman Center was in 2005 during the Thursday evening bloggers group. I’m now an advisor ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2007

So, I starting worrying about the Internet connection in Cambodia. The very calm Preetamrai , the Southeast Asian Editor for Global Voices who is also attending and leading a workshop at the Cambodia Bloggers Summit told me about his very cool new app from Techsmith, JingProject.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

This is the second of a three-part post about what I learned about social media, NGOs, and Social Change in Cambodia during my “ homecoming trip.” ” Part 1 was about NGOs in Cambodia , focusing on the work of the Sharing Foundation. This post is about the social media community in Cambodia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Note from Beth: My colleague, John Weeks, is an expat nonprofit techie living and working in Cambodia. We first connected back in 2004 when I started my first blog on Cambodia and was covering the Cambodian Blogosphere for Global Voices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Andy Carvin who I known probably for ten years since his early work in educational technology when he lived in Boston and through the years have connected with him in various communities from Global Voices and beyond. George Brett who took some great photos of conference. This is just a sampling.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

On March 5, 2009 I interviewed yoga teacher and co-Founder of Off the Mat, Into the World, Seane Corn , for the Big Vision Podcast shortly after she returned from a trip to Cambodia with participants from Off the Mat, Into the World's Seva Challenge. This challenge benefited the Cambodian Children's Fund out of Cambodia.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

Conversation is the key, and we’re starting to give our supporters individual voices to hear while at the same time getting to know them. But the bottom-line: Cracks are showing everywhere in our increasingly unsustainable economic and environmental global order. Why did I know of your connection Cambodia! Tell it quickly.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2006

Heddy also writes for the Global Youth Fund blog. Later, they learned that it happened again and again – in the cases of Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda - and it was still happening but nobody was doing anything about it. Use your voice! After you have done your research, don’t keep it to yourself.

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