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Her blog covers social, political, and economic global issues from the perspective of young Cambodian professional. 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. How come there are not so many BlogHers in Cambodia?
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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.
Almost two years ago at the first Blogher Conference I was lucky enough to interview and get to know Lisa Canter (we aren't related but I learned a few things about the kanter/canter name from her husband, Marc ). And, we both are parents of two young children. As of today, contributors have helped me raise $381 towards the $750 goal.
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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So, if don't worry that we're over goal - there are many children who will benefit from the additional support. Tharum, who I had the pleasure of meeting via my work with Global s, has linked to the Campaign. Donors: Richardo Carreon. Britt Bravo on her personal blog. smArts & Culture FiSpace Micropersuasion E-politics.
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