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JULY 28, 2006

The minute I walked into the reception at blogher tonight, Susan Getgood came up to me and said "Don't photograph my shoes. My blogher shoes and feet photos have gotten more hits than anything else on my blog! The second purse from Hawaii spotted during the blogher reception. But because the blogher logo is green. -

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AUGUST 17, 2007

BlogHers Act is a year-long initiative in which members of BlogHer , both on BlogHer???s BlogHers Act will take a two-pronged approach to improving Global Health: 1. BlogHers Act will take a two-pronged approach to improving Global Health: 1. signatures, votes, donations, letters, live births, etc.).

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AUGUST 31, 2010

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JULY 26, 2007

I'm off to my third BlogHer Conference! Meanwhile, I'm finally doing the ten-second blogme meme: I'm going to have to use my BlogHer 2005 T-shirt slogan again -- "Enough about me, let's talk about my blog" a big hat tip to Alexandra Samuels. This year I"m speaking on a panel called " Getting It On(line) for a Cause.

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JULY 29, 2006

This kind soul happen to walk by when the flickr blogher meetup birds of a feather session ended and we needed a group photo. I know that the photo was taken on this blogher's camera phone. But I can't find her card and I can't find the photo. Can anyone help?

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JUNE 6, 2007

Yesterday BlogHer launched a new, year-long initiative to use the power of its 11,000+ members for positive change. What is the global issue BlogHer's members should focus on this year? You can read my answer to the first question in my post on BlogHer, " BlogHers Act: We Need to Be A Witness for Darfur ".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2008

Britt Bravo facilitated a meet up session yesterday for bloghers who write about social change and nonprofits. And if that isn't enough - Marshall Kirkpatrick has a great round up of favorite Bloghers over at Read/Write Web. Photo by Britt Bravo. She compiled a list of all in attendance and I'm sharing it here.

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JULY 28, 2007

Yesterday, on very little sleep, I did a session at Blogher. Britt Bravo did a superb job of moderating. VITA and Kaylyn , fellow panelists, were inspiring. Katie took excellent notes! Thank you!

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MAY 6, 2008

And BlogHer has responded. Earlier today, Lisa Stone of BlogHer let us know that BlogHers Act and Global Giving expanded the Mother's Day fundraising initiative to include support for a project for emergency relief. (I Thank you to everyone who has donated to the BlogHers Act.

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APRIL 9, 2007

Update: Lisa Stone over at BlogHer just wrote the most beautiful post about the NTEN award! I'm so proud to be part of the BlogHer community and to work with the amazing founders of blogher - who were just featured in the NY Times regarding the Cyberbullying issue.

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AUGUST 21, 2007

BlogHer (where I am a Contributing Editor) launched a year-long campaign, BlogHers Act, at their 2007 conference this summer. During BlogHers Act, BlogHers will work to make a measurable improvement in "global health" issues. BlogHers Act will take a two-pronged approach to make a positive change in global health issues.

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OCTOBER 28, 2010

Elisa Camahort Page is the co-founder and COO of BlogHer Inc, the largest community of women who blog, and the future of women's lifestyle programming.where women actively participate and can integrate their perspectives on everything from parenting to politics, food to finance.

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JULY 28, 2007

I'm having a great time at the BlogHer Conference this year connecting with lots of do-good, good-hearted BlogHers like: Zoe Chafe, Staff Researcher and blogger for Worldwatch Institute. Photo Credit: Photo of Birdie Jawarski at the Scrapblog Stand at the BlogHer Conference 07 by Alex de Carvalho. Give 'em a click!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2007

I should be in Chicago at the pre-conference sessions and the reception for BlogHer Contributing Editors right now. But, all flights out of RI and Boston on United were cancelled due to the above Thunderstorms. I was lucky that I snagged a 6:00 AM flight out tommorrow morning.

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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 with the BlogHer bag! On the right, is Sopheap who I interviewed for BlogHer. Cross posted at BlogHer I observed her sharing her knowledge with other women at the conference. I am enjoying reading her blog.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2007

How come there are not so many BlogHers in Cambodia? Cross posted on BlogHer People are afraid to implement their rights. So, I want to use my blog to exercise my right to freedom of expression or otherwise we are self-censoring. There are women blogging in Cambodia. I found people saying that women only blog for personal blogs.

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AUGUST 1, 2007

While I was in Chicago, Ryanne Hodson , who I met at last year's BlogHer, is in Cambodia and Southeast Asia with Jay Dedman to document the work of Project Hope International. So, while at BlogHer 07 I had a little bit of a personal learning mission: What can I learn about mobile video blogging in a global context?

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JULY 20, 2008

This is my fourth BlogHer Conference. Amy Gahran gave a writing workshop at BlogHer that was very inspiring. Flowers in the neighborhood. I look forward to the event because it helps inspire me. This year I selected sessions based on a personal goal - to improve my blog. There are two focus areas -- design and writing.

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JULY 2, 2008

Just a quick post to say that today at 6 PM Pacific Time is the last day to register for the BlogHer Conference. blogher women blog nonprofit green social change Let me know if you'll be there in the comments of this post, by email (britt AT brittbravo.com), or Twitter (@bbravo). blogher women blog nonprofit green social change

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DECEMBER 4, 2007

I was assigned to write a piece for the Blogher Holiday guide for this Sunday. My assignment: Recommend 10 (or more) nonprofits or causes that people may consider as a holiday gift. Now, I could go make a list, but I thought it would be such a richer list if you all helped me. So, here's what you can do: 1.) Recommend a charity and/or cause.

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JULY 2, 2007

You can learn some blog fundraising tips if you come to the BlogHer Conference in Chicago where I'll be moderating a panel on Friday, July 27th from 2:45-4:00 pm called, Getting It On(line) for a Cause: Part 1 - Raising Money. blogher07 , Bloghers Act , Bloghersact , Blogher If you go to the Conference, come say hi!

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MAY 28, 2008

For the past two days I've gotten to spend time at the NetSquared Conference with my Co-Editor of BlogHer's Social Change, Nonprofit and NGO section, and fellow NetSquared blogger , Beth Kanter of Beth's Blog. I'll be teaching a "Nonprofit Blogging 101," and a "Nonprofit Podcasting 101" session. blogging conference Beth Kanter

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JANUARY 4, 2007

11 of BlogHer' s Contributing Editors have volunteered to give free 1/2 hour phone consults to beginning women bloggers. Choose your beginning blogging mentor from the list on BlogHer. Is your New Year's Resolution to create a blog, but you don't know how to start? All you pay for is the cost of the call.

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APRIL 3, 2009

Love & Devices | BlogHer - Susan Mernit has a wonderful piece on BlogHer about her "connection" (not addiction) to technology. These are some links I wanted to share from April 3rd. Find me on Delicious for more! As she says, "If you are dating me, you ARE dating my devices." " It's a great read.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2007

So, she graciously agreed to participate in our panel and do a quick interview for me so I could "pro blog it" for BlogHer. You are working in technology for a nonprofit, what did you did study in school?

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JULY 28, 2007

I finally arrived in Chicago after getting up at 3:00 am to catch an early flight. So, yesterday was on less hours of sleep than number of lattes consumed. I had three lattes. Do the math.

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APRIL 30, 2009

. • Innovation and Tech Career Reinvention. • What Shirky Didn’t Tell Us. • Feminine Mystique.

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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. I asked folks to give me their cards so I could share who attended with you.

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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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OCTOBER 18, 2010

I first met Heather Gold when she did stand up comedy at the first Blogher conference in 2005. I first met Heather Gold when she did stand up comedy at the first Blogher conference in 2005. Thanks Heather for a terrific workshop!

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JANUARY 12, 2010

A BlogHer commenter also posted a link to an extensive list on the What Gives!? You can follow them on the Oxfam America blog and on Twitter at @oxfamamerica • Musician Wyclef Jean, who established Yéle Haiti , tweeted, "Help Haiti Earthquake Relief Donate $5 by texting YELE to 501 501 right now please RT." Cross-posted from BlogHer.com.

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AUGUST 30, 2010

I’m honored to be included on this “dream team&# roster of women (and a few guys including fellow Zoetican, Geoff Livingston ) working on the forefront of social change and technological progress, among them: Mary Hodder, Technologist and Founder of of Dabble.com, Author Blogger and CEO of Zoetica Media, author Clay Shirky, Elisa Camahort (..)

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Once over the Golden Gate Bridge and connectedness restored I noticed this post from Melissa Ford over at BlogHer in my Facebook feed – “ Is RSS Dead? &# about Bloglines closing as of October 1st. Browsing the local cheese shop in town, there was an invitation to join their Fan Club on Facebook!

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MARCH 16, 2011

August 5: I'll be at BlogHer '11 in San Diego and leading the idea generation portion of The Write Brain – Essential Blog Content Development Workshop. Show Notes I have three workshops coming up: May 14: Blogging for Writers workshop at the Writing Salon in Berkeley, CA.

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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).

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OCTOBER 24, 2009

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. Geoff Livingston invited me to keynote the conference along with Shel Israel , author of Twitterville.

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JUNE 17, 2014

As I was doing some research on cultivating women donors, I came across this useful data by BlogHer: According to their survey, 41% of women used Facebook to contribute to a community, 33% used Twitter, 32% used Pinterest, and 28% used blogs. 32% of women compared to 25% of men.

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