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SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Click To Play Here a round up of some the fabulous women Bloghers in Cambodia and Linux Chix that I met. Dee Dee is one of two women on the five-person Clogger Team responsible for organizing the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. Dee Dee with the BlogHer bag! In this photo, Pagna is on the left. Photo by Thomas Wanhaff.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2011

20 Ways to Be a Generous Blogger 2. 11 Highlights from BlogHer '11 7. Create and Connect: 100 Letters for the Last 100 Days of 2011 Photo credits: Vintage Underwood Number 5 Manual Typewriter is by Michael Dolan. The photos of Emily, Julie and Tiffany are owned by them. Emily McKhann: Making Time For What Matters 3.

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AUGUST 19, 2009

I just got back from BlogHer , the largest gathering of female bloggers in America. According to Katie Couric who recorded a special clip from the set of CBS Evening News for BlogHer 2008 (as seen above), 36 million women write or read blogs each week. You can get up-to-speed with BlogHer '09 through their official liveblogs.

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JULY 18, 2008

This morning at the BlogHer Conference, about 40 "green" and "social change" bloggers, organizations and companies got together for a Birds of a Feather Meetup. and the adventures of leelo and his potty-mouthed mom Tammy Lynn Gilmore, SXSW Interactive Photos by me. blogher08 green social change

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JULY 30, 2005

The only way I got these photographs was promise not to attach a name to the photo. I did get permission from anina.net who is a fashion blogger from Paris. Technorati Tags: blogher bloghercon I'm blogging shoes and feet this morning during breakfast. The complete set is here. The shoes are by the designer Andre).

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JULY 30, 2006

The last BlogHer Conference session I went to yesterday, before leaving early to go to a wedding, was about using blogging for Community Assistance. Here are some of the tips they gave for other disaster relief bloggers: Tips from Grace 1. It would be a great way to mobilize the power of women bloggers. They also set up a wiki.

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JULY 31, 2005

How to keep plugged into and contribute this blogher community? Volunteer for next year's blogher. Link to Women Bloggers - I've done quite a bit of that in my live reports, but I need to add the blogher blogroll. Now I have the blogher blogroll as a pool to start exploring. Read the Blogher Chat Transcripts.

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AUGUST 26, 2007

Photo by Michaela Hackner, Kalabird. By the time you read this post, I will be crossing the International Dateline enroute to the first Cambodian Bloggers Summit in Phnom Penh. (No, So, she graciously agreed to participate in our panel and do a quick interview for me so I could "pro blog it" for BlogHer.

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OCTOBER 24, 2009

Flickr Photo by Ghbrett. You don't necessarily see women keynote at technology conferences (well accept for women focused technology conferences like blogher ), but Geoff was trying hard ensure a gender balanced program and succeeded. more like the Berkman Center Thursday evening blogger meetups I used to attend from 2005-2007.

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JULY 19, 2008

Flickr Photo by Veesees Elise Bauer , a food blogger who writes Simple Recipes. She does this talk because she gets a lot of traffic. She has 1,000,000 feed readers. She has been experimenting over the past few years. Why do you want traffic? Has to support your goals and capacity.

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AUGUST 2, 2007

I ran into her at BlogHer and immediately noticed her t-shirt because I have the same one. In fact, the photo I took of my kids wearing it won the Creative Commons photo contest ! Maybe this blogger will send me one? Nast who writes a placeblog called BlogWindsor and Femilicious.

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MAY 6, 2007

Mary Joyce in front of her campaign posts during a recent trip to Lagos to set up computer equipment for the OpenNet Initiative in April, 2007 (Photo from her Flickr stream). " She has is supporting a campaign to Free Monem , a blogger arrested by Egyptians security forces on April 15th. By taking action! exponentially!

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AUGUST 21, 2008

Ask bloggers to review/write about your book You can find a list of the Top 100 Blogs on Technorati as a place to start, but all of their audiences may not be appropriate for your topic. Before you draft your blogger outreach email, check out my 10 Tips for Asking Bloggers to Write About Your Cause. Flickr photo contest.

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JANUARY 14, 2008

Cambodia4kids Flickr Photos. I launched a bloggers campaign and Twitter Wall of Fame as part of the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge. (To That's a photo I took this summer of a child at the Sharing Foundation 's Roteang Orphanage. At the time, I was raising money to support the Cambodian Bloggers Summit.

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OCTOBER 10, 2009

Provide a link to a page with bios for bloggers. If your blogging platform doesn't allow you to do that, have bloggers include a one-line bio at the end of their posts. Link to other bloggers Use Google Blog Search , Alltop and Technorati to find blogs that write about similar topics to yours. posts, photos, video).

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MARCH 2, 2011

The second guest blogger in my Have Fun, Do Good series is Wendy Harman. Red Crossers Jenny Brennan, Wendy Harman, and Seth Spiro checking Twitter and other social media in the Disaster Operations Center in Washington, DC Photo by American Red Cross. Photo by Geoff Livingston. Thank you for letting me be part of this community.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2008

Foko Blog Club, Foko Madagascar Flickr Photo Joan Razafmaharo is an amazing blogger, social change activist, and woman working in Madagascar and other parts of the world. They project has several components, including: Foko Blog Club is teaching young people in Madagascar blogging skills (See photo above). s development.

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OCTOBER 8, 2008

I referenced Liza Sabater's Brown Bloggers meetups, but could not point to any studies or stats. The consultant also pointed out that flickr photo I used seemed to indicate that the percentage are low. Blog is Beautiful Latino, Asian/Pacific Islander-American, and black bloggers. it just doesn't depend on them, bloggers say.

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APRIL 7, 2009

As many of you know, in addition to writing for Have Fun * Do Good, I am also a Contributing Editor, with Beth Kanter , for the Social Change and Nonprofit section of BlogHer. Photo of butterfly at Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix by me. blog blogging blogger fun Hello Have Fun * Do Gooders!

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AUGUST 31, 2008

Today, August 31st, is Blog Day , a day for bloggers to recommend 5 new blogs to their readers, "preferably blogs that are different from their own culture, point of view and attitude." They post photos of cupcakes from cupcake bakeries all over the world, and from readers who submit photos of their own creations.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2006

At this summer's Blogher Conference, I had the opportunity to hear Lauren Gelman , Associate Director of Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society , and Dean of State of Play Academy present at the blogging communities session called, " So, You Have This Crazy Idea."

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AUGUST 5, 2007

Photo by Shel Israel. I am sitting here amazed that we were able to meet the campaign goal for the Cambodia Bloggers Summit in about week's time. In addition, I'd like to thank Britt Bravo who gave her covered AOL laptop bag to schlep home the t-shirts from BlogHer and to Gina Trapani for donating her extra t-shirts.

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OCTOBER 13, 2008

Photo by Ezster On Saturday, I attended BlogHer Boston. The networking was fabulous - meeting many new bloggers in the Boston area as well as seeing long-time blogher buddies and of course, Jory, Lisa, and Elisa. BlogHer always inspires me and this one did not fail. It was better than eating chocolate!

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NOVEMBER 3, 2010

The eighth guest blogger in my have fun, do good series is Beth Terry. Photo: My friend Eli and I at the 2009 Bay to Breakers. Beth has been living plastic-free since 2007 and blogs about her adventures at FakePlasticFish.com. She is also an advisor to the Plastic Pollution Coalition and a contributing editor for BlogHer.com.

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JULY 29, 2006

The first whole group session of Day 2 of BlogHer was, “How Has Blogging Changed your World?” The first woman to speak was Cooper Monroe, one of the bloggers who created The Being There Clearing House. Monroe closed by saying, "I learned that women bloggers can change the world."

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OCTOBER 19, 2007

Britt is an amazing person - the most efficient woman on earth, an fantastic blogger, and all-around fun to be with! She her day job is to blog and she does a terrific job at NetSquared and BlogHer. Check out the photo of my kids wearing one of her blog t-shirts). Her personal blog , Have Fun Do Good , is a must read.

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JULY 30, 2005

Meet Anina.net who is a fashion blogger from Paris. She came to Blogher because she was invited by Six Apart and wanted to connect with blogher role models. She came to Blogher because she was invited by Six Apart and wanted to connect with blogher role models. Technorati Tags: blogher bloghercon

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

DC Metblogger Flickr Photo. Even better, the green laptops would match the video blogging kits that Ryanne Hodson and Jay Dedman brought over the month before I brought the same kits to the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. Virginia Debolt who covers the technology beat at BlogHer has a great roundup of the reactions.

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AUGUST 25, 2008

Thousands of photos in flickr (and really good ones). Later that summer, I had the honor of being interviewed by Ponzi at BlogHer. A couple of personal highlights of the sessions: Photography Tips Kris Krug who is an awesome photographer who gave us great tips on improving our photos. Two awesome parties.

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JULY 29, 2006

everyone divided into small "Birds of a Feather" groups of like-minded bloggers. Here are some of the bloggers from our group. After "How Has Blogging Changed Your World?" I was happy that a bunch of folks signed up for the Blogging for Social Change group. Give 'em some link love y'all!

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NOVEMBER 5, 2008

"So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves but each other." -- President-elect Obama's acceptance speech November 4, 2008 In her post today, Congratulations President-elect Obama: Now, BlogHers, what will YOU do to change America?

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JULY 26, 2006

I'm gearing up to do some live blogging at blogher and NCDD. At last year's blogher, someone said that live bloggers need to carry around a hip flask in their tool box! I also try to get several photos that capture the essence of what it was like to be in the room. Add a photo to the post with a link to the photo set.

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OCTOBER 31, 2007

I needed to spend Sunday with my kids who were more than happy to add another photo to the two-headed t-shirt collection. David Eckoff and Chris Brogan Photos by Steve Garfield. Millie Garfield and Jonny Goldstein Photo by Steve Garfield. Photo by Jonny Goldstein. Photos by CC Chapman. Casey posed for a photo.

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DECEMBER 13, 2005

One of the most exciting things for me was to finally meet Tharum (a Cambodian blogger) and pictured above face-to-face. First, there was a lot of energy in the room, similar to the blogher , because a lot of people had been reading each other's blogs or posts on GV, but had never met face-to-face. Technorati Tags: globals

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MAY 2, 2008

I used my webcam attached my laptop as my first digital camera to record photos from a conference that I was taking notes for - and then publishing as web pages. In the nonprofit sector, there were not many bloggers in 2004. I also followed bloggers who were not in the nonprofit space. The Typo Police Page. Note the blink tag!

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AUGUST 1, 2007

During the BlogHer Conference session, How to Turn Your Blog into a GOtV (Get Out the Vote) Machine, the incredibly inspiring Zephyr Teachout (former Director of Internet Organizing and Outreach for Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign) talked about the importance of three things when organizing: * Have an online petition tool.

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MAY 13, 2005

Ed Batista answered my musing about feeling naked online (in the context of getting over the discomfort one feels as blog writer) with a great response and an interesting photo. And, I stumbled upon the blogher conference with a session entitled " How To Get Naked Online " in July.

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