Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2005

I'm live blogging at blogher and in about an hour and half, I'll be attending a training on how we're supposed to be tagging our posts and some points about writing style, etc. Her is the description of my task: All social and networking portions of BlogHer are being blogged all day by our BlogHer-on-the-street, Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2006

I'm finally back home after an extended business trip that began with the Blogher 2006 conference. Hundreds of blogs, individual web sites and small business web sites ??? Dozens of individuals set up their own web sites in the wake of Katrina to match people willing to provide housing with victims.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2005

(I've been wanting to do audio and video for a long time, but it wasn't until my blogher experience that I actually got moving and picked up the knowledge to try my first one. Lisa Williams showed her vlog from Blogher at the Berkman Thursday night blogging group and during the walk to dinner, I got to ask her how she did it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Chris Abraham who I met online in 1992 through MetaNetwork (a site similar to the Well but in DC) and Arts Wire.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2005

I met some of the "Mommybloggers" at blogher. and more recently they launched a site called, what else, Mommybloggers. " I just read an article in Wired about Mommy podcasters and a new site called, what else, Mommycast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

In April, I blogged about HSUS "Stop Canada's Cruel Seal Hunt" campaign over at blogher and my blog and last December on my blog as part of a roundup of articles on using social networking spaces for campaigns. We source every link from myspace so we can tell what each person does once they reach our site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

(And everyone know how much I love SlideShare ) I got to met her at BlogHer and talk about Slideshare! But, for me, what I really like is the access to the excellent content on the site and the community. Slideshare recently launched slidecasting, the ability to add audio. I'm gonna have to fireup audacity and give it whirl.

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JUNE 5, 2009

If you are using your blog for social impact, you can submit your site to be included on the List by filling out this form. Eventually the List will be moved to the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s site after its redesign. Eventually the List will be moved to the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s site after its redesign. inbound links.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2006

Here's the project description from the site: Recruited from current FLEX. Through introducing ourselves to other mentors in the this project virtually, Britt and I discovered that we had a lot more in common than nonprofit technology and blogher interests. Technorati Tags: net2 , nptech , blogher We've both worked in the arts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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." just email her at gelman at Stanford dot edu.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2006

Blogher Lisa Stone interviews Ethan Zukerman and Rebecca MacKinnon, Global s Founders. Will your site always be English only? Will your site always be English only? The call is tommorrow, but you can always listen to the audio file. The topics: * What does it mean to be a "conversation community"? Feedback?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2006

4 Web sites I visit regularly. Full Circle Blog Netsquared Nten Blog Blogher. So, here goes. 4 places I lived: Atlantic City, NY Philadelphia, PA Cambridge, MA Bennington, VT. 4 places I liked: Siem Reap, Cambodia Phnom Penh, Cambodia Provence, France Singapore. 4 People I tag. Britt Bravo Tharum Seserak Wanna.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2007

I ran into her at BlogHer and immediately noticed her t-shirt because I have the same one. So, if you'd like to support Creative Commons and send a t-shirt or two to Cambodia, you can purchase one at their site and have it sent to me. Click to Play. Meet Candace N. Nast who writes a placeblog called BlogWindsor and Femilicious.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2006

There is a long-running blog on the site too, with girls podcasting coming soon. Technorati Tags: net2 , nptech , blogher , nonprofit , ngo , Dave's sig line gave me an instant flash of what's he up to lately: Technology Director, Lower Eastside Girls Club Ex-Television hack, podcaster, Maya maniac Blog for girls cheerleader.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2006

Bloghers Alexandra Samuel and Marnie Webb are quoted in an Inside Bay Area article titled Blog a better world. Blogs in 2006 will be as much the sine qua non (of a corporate presence) just as the Web site was in 2000. The article is about the benefits to nonprofits of using blogs. Interplast is featured prominently.

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JULY 30, 2007

Last week at the BlogHer Conference I had the pleasure of meeting Rochelle Robinson , the Online Program Manager for Ms. One of the cool things on her site is a link to Social Change Websites , a directory of nonprofit, grassroots and advocacy campaign web sites. The site is Rochelle's brainchild.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2007

On her portfolio site she shares a life vow called Threads of Empathy As part of a life-vow I have made which is at the basis of much of my art, I donate 10% of my income from all art sales to help provide opportunity and education in developing countries. OMG, I can't believe this generosity. Is this an example of the virtual gift economy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2008

This week, as BlogHer , launched a special campaign with GlobalGiving to raise money for lifesaving programs for women around the world, here is an interview with Donna Callejon who is the Chief Operating Officer of Global Giving. We are really excited about our new partnership with BlogHers Act.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Many blogHers, like Rebeca at the Razoo blog , went red on Thursday as part of Free Burma: International Bloggers Day.    Then check out the justcause - a social networking site that is encouraging people to take action behind a cause.    But, on Friday, my blog turned from red to pink! 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2005

What I will be talking about at BlogHer is the idea of getting your customers to do the talking on the blog. This disclaimer is so key to nonprofits as most fear being accountable for information and opinions posted on the site that may not mesh with organizational guidelines/policies and/or science-based research, etc.

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JULY 30, 2007

Identify and interview 3-5 amazing Cambodian BlogHers and post on BlogHer site. Learn about and document how the blogging team is doing outreach and encouraging new bloggers and share on my blog. Bring a suitcase of donated technology and nonprofit t-shirts for participants (they have no budget for scwhag).

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MARCH 27, 2007

Lisa Stone at Blogher has responded to the situation here with a post called "Hating Hate Speech: Safety for Kathy Sierra and All Women Online." ll also use the site to aggregate a stream of what people are doing in support of Stop Cyberbullying Day, assuming people accept my challenge to take action on Friday.

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JUNE 1, 2006

I'd seen Tara wow the audience when we were on a Blogging for Business panel together, but I'd never seen Elisa (or Lisa) from Blogher speak before, and I was super impressed. Now I'm really excited to go to the Blogher Conference ! Design plays a big factor in what makes a web site attractive to women.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2007

That will come after I get back and will morph the c ampaign site in that. 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. They would match donations $1 up to $2,000 I raised for the project. Here's an example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2006

One of the breakout sessions at The Netsquared Conference was on Tagging in the Nonprofit World at that session blogher Holly Ross of N-TEN asked a question. For example - can a legal services organization use a set of tags to help aggregate content about Seattle area housing for their clients and agreggate it on their site?

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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. When she began getting up to 100 requests a day for survivor information, Sara directed people to survivor sites and other resources. Be honest about what you can and cannot help with.

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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 site continues today and has expanded to areas like Pittsburg, where Katrina survivors have been re-located. Photo credit: Nature Globes by Lady-bug/Lisa blogher blogher06 I have friends all over the world,” she said smiling.

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MARCH 7, 2008

I usually direct people to places like Emily Weinberg's Nonprofit Blog Exchange , or BlogHer's Social Change and Nonprofit blog list. Alltop is a site that aggregates news and blog feeds by topic from “all the top” sites on the web. The site is the brainchild of Nononina (Will Mayall, Kathryn Henkens and Guy Kawasaki ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Hint, drive them to a landing page on your site). Did get one party hosted by Carwoo and organized by Renee Blodgett who I met a BlogHer in 2005. On the nonprofit side, it takes thinking through the value of participation. I ran into KK (Kris Krug) who is a free agent extraordinaire and did an interview I’ll publish later.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

The list included BlogHer founders Elisa Camahort Page, Jory Des Jardins, and Lisa Stone. Megan Keane blogs at TechSoup community site. In December, Fast Company published an article called " The Most Influential Women in Web 2.0 " featuring about a dozen amazing women who work in the Web 2.0 Holly Ross. Rachel Weidinger.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

She also has the definitive list of Cambodian BlogHers here. He is an active tagger and expert in social networking sites. John Weeks (aka jinja ) has lived in Cambodia for a long time and has been blogging for many years. I think he might be the first ex-pat Cambodian blogger. Hi blog is always informative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2007

I had the pleasure of interviewing Judi Sohn for Blogher and have finally published it. m Googling for something and my own site pops up in the results." Her personal blog drives traffic to her organization's web site. Judi Sohn, Director of Operations and Communications, for the Colorectal Cancer Coalition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2008

Photo by Christine As you know by now, Hurricane Gustav looks even more destructive than Katrina (see this round up from Lisa Stone, BlogHer , of the news reports and links). discussion on Gustav Information site. Three years ago, in the wake of the devastating storm, social media and others started organizing online.

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JULY 27, 2006

You can find places selling local food near you through the Local Harvest site, search for Eat In, Act Out events near you, or add your own, on the Eat In, Act Out Frappr Map (pictured above), and read more about the Food Project on their blog.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Last week I posted about the online fair trade store, Global Girlfriend , here and on BlogHer , and asked readers to post other ideas for do-good gifts. Photo credit: Shelley Big Bag from Be Sweet site. One reader suggested the Amber Chand Collection that features gifts by craftswomen who live in regions of conflict and post-conflict.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

First off, I want to thank Andy Carvin for organizing this day and the ning site and leading by example - showing us how to take an issue and integrate the use of new social media tools! Hats off to Lisa, Jory, and Elisa (as well as to my fellow BlogHer CE editors) for posting such brilliant thoughts about this topic.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2006

While working on a post for blogher this morning, I came across information about a do good film company that I wanted to share.

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