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Meet A Cambodian BlogHer: Sopheap Chak

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This was a trip to bring urban young people to experience life in a rural area and to deliver school supplies for children who live in the province and are very poor. I can talk about my volunteer efforts to help poor children in the remote province. How come there are not so many BlogHers in Cambodia?

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The Last Blogpotomac: A New Community Rises from the Ashes

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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. This is just a sampling.

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How do you encourage your kids to contribute to charity or causes?

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I'm working on a piece for the BlogHer Holiday Guide about encouraging children to contribute causes and charities. In our family, I involve my kids in various fundraising activities - from Cambodia to Creative Commons.

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Should You Quantify Love? Redux 2

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I caught up with Jen Lemen's post " To Cambodia With Love " I met Jen at Blogher last summer in a session about Global Women Bloghers. One of the panelist had asked the room on my behalf for t-shirts for my suitcase campaign and Jen gave me a her blogher schwag! s reports on Twitter. could actually.

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Jen Lemen Raises Over $3,000 in 24 Hours for Rwanda Project

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I first met Jen at BlogHer in Chicago last summer at the Global Women's panel. During the America's Giving Challenge, when we dropped into 5th place and I thought the race was over, Jen activated her supportive network with this beautiful post, " To Cambodia With Love." The children???s Way to go! s basic needs.

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Give One, Get One: One Laptop Per Child.

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But when I realized it would take a long time before a small NGO working in a country, like say, Cambodia, might be able to purchase a small number of them (less than 100) to outfit a school, I was disappointed. So, maybe they will make it easier for people who want to support specific schools and children. Tharum was disappointed too.

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Why is this Cambodian Orphan Wearing A Creative Commons T-Shirt?

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Nast who writes a placeblog called BlogWindsor and Femilicious at BlogHer this summer. The orphanage represents a new standard of hygiene, medical services, nutrition, and compassionate care for children in Cambodia. That's a photo I took this summer of a child at the Sharing Foundation 's Roteang Orphanage. I meet Candace N.