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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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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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JANUARY 20, 2009

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 The list included BlogHer founders Elisa Camahort Page, Jory Des Jardins, and Lisa Stone. Megan Keane blogs at TechSoup community site. Holly Ross. Rachel Weidinger.

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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

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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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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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. about civility!

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MAY 2, 2008

s a description from an archived web page [link] of how my role changed over my ten years at this job. You could sit down with a beer in hand and literally visit every server on the web via Cern. We were all excited by the beginning of the Web in those days and there were communities and conversations. A totally manual blog!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2006

Shortly before the Blogher July 2005 conference, I got a new digital camera that came with a video feature. There has been online conversation during the past couple of weeks on vlog list , Netsquared , TechSoup and Blogher. " How Nonprofits Are Using Vlogging and Video on the Web. Here's a synthesis.

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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. He is also runs a Web development company based in Cambodia called House32. He is also runs a Web development company based in Cambodia called House32. Hi blog is always informative.

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AUGUST 10, 2007

Social Web. and Associations thoughts from Acronym: Experience Web 2.0 at Annual Meeting posted on the blog inviting people to participate in the social web. Here's a roundup of all the live blog posts from the recent BlogHer conference neatly organized by session. Web Site Usability, Social Media Engagement and ROI.

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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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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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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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NOVEMBER 16, 2006

My fellow BlogHer co-editor, Beth Kanter , has launched a fundraising campaign using ChipIn. If you have a web site or blog, and want to start a similar campaign of your own, I'm sure she'd be happy to share tips and advice-- she's very nice (: sopharath net2 nptech philanthropy

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JUNE 2, 2006

You can also find it on Britt's Blogher site. Programming: Google has released the Google Web Toolkit , a programming framework for AJAX development that takes a very new approach to Javascript development. Rebecca points out that idling vehicles is the Number One cause of air pollution in urban areas! Cut that engine!

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AUGUST 29, 2006

Here are some BlogHers who are giving back through volunteering, or using their blog to advertise do * good opportunities: Rocks in My Dryer puts the word out for Operation Special Edition , a program that provides volunteer doulas for pregnant women whose husbands or partners are deployed when they give birth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

It's what Avinash Kaushik defines as " Web Analytics 2.0 Last week, I did a Webinar with Laura Quinn as a primer for nonprofits on Web Analytics. Unique Visitors, from your web analytics tool, and Feed Subscribers, from your RSS tool. " (I think he even trademarked the term). Step 4: Ask What If I Did.

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MAY 11, 2009

Photo by James Jordan I'm actually in the clouds, flying to California on Virgin America using the (not free) wifi listening to Mark Pesce's keynote via Mike Seyfang delivered the other day at Connecting Up Australia the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Australia (see web site for details). I keynoted the conference last year.

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MARCH 13, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Non-Profits: Be the Web You Wish to See!

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FEBRUARY 9, 2007

She writes also for the Big Medicine web site. Should there ever be a disaster (god forbid), how could a blogging network like BlogHer be of assistance? Tell me about you I???m m reminded of my first column for Big Medicine where I shared my response to the editor Hal Newman when he invited me to be a Big Med columnist.

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MARCH 27, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Reader Comments (2) Great post Ali.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

You can learn more about her impressive accomplishments by reading the official CV/Bio at her web site. Cross posted at Blogher The paper is a must read. She is also the coordinator for NOSI - Nonprofit Open Source Initiative. Here's my interview: 1. The Bamboo project blog Jen Mei Wu's Dangerous Ideas Marnie Webb's Ext.337

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NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Set a Time Frame, Track it and Talk about it: Make sure you activate the tracking system or install an external tracking system like site meter, bloglog, or Google Analytics. I interviewed Tuesday Gutierrez from SaveGuimaras over at blogher. Look at your data for answers. What should you bring forward? The Case Study.

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APRIL 24, 2007

PR: Check out our web site. We've seen other grassroots groups, community groups, environmental groups, engage around Fair Trade, get the word out through their newsletters, and help to educate and raise awareness, provide links to their web sites, promote Fair Trade products through creative partnerships.

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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. It helped me write this post - " What Color is the Social Web? ". This was the first time we met face-to-face!

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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. Her main focus is on ways to use web 2.0 That includes the advocacy actions and the web banners.

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DECEMBER 6, 2006

In addition, I also look at the Technorati ratings, but with a huge a grain of salt (thanks to my smart blogher friend, Amy Gahran. While it's not the only way to measure the health of a site (time spent and unique users are among the others), it's still very popular. The widgetization of the web will only accelerate this.

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APRIL 7, 2008

I'm doing a bit of research on this topic for BlogHer for Earth Day that will encourage community members to create "green themed" videos with their kids. In terms of web 2.0 safety resources, I mentioned Larry Magid's site, Connect Safely.

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JANUARY 31, 2006

Two projects supporting women bloggers launched yesterday, the new Blogher network and the Young Caucasus Women Project. Personal Politics & News Race & Ethnicity Religion & Spirituality Research & Academia Sex & Relationships Technology & Web Travel & Recreation World In addition, they have blogrolls of women bloghers in each category.

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MAY 14, 2009

Reach a broader audience: More than 500M Google Earth users today; Drive people to your site; Gain members, volunteers, donors, media coverage. Web metrics, talking to people, emails (who opens, clicks, etc.). Laura: Joomla can work for both a simple site and a complex one. Raise awareness for your cause and projects.

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DECEMBER 19, 2006

That's a photo I took of Marc Canter at the first Blogher Conference in July, 2005 I put it in flickr with an "All Rights Reserved" license which is the flickr default. I found myself at the sfgate site and this story about Marc Canter. I had never changed it. The photo looked familiar and I realized, Oh My God, it's mine!

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OCTOBER 23, 2006

Let's start with Michelle herself, who posted some comments on the NTEN-sponsored discussion of open API's last week to both the NetSquared site and her own blog. Blogging Basics for Women Women have been quite forceful in claiming their space in the Blogosphere; perhaps the best known women's project in this space is Blogher.

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JULY 18, 2007

With just nine days until the BlogHer Conference in Chicago, where I'll be moderating the panel, "Getting It On(line) for a Cause: Raising Money," I thought I'd search around for nonprofit and activist women bloggers in the Chicago area. Chicago Community Midwives also uses a blog as their site's home page.

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OCTOBER 22, 2008

As you mentioned, there are over 2,500 people who've signed up on your site who have committed to do this, more than once sometimes. There's a woman named Erin who is a community manager of our site. She helps manage the team of volunteers that run the site. I think that has been a common experience for people on the web site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

I attended the " Twenty-Something Meet Up " at the BlogHer Conference. Change.Org is covering news about social change on its site. who started blogging about a year ago to write about associations and web 2.0. What other relevant blog posts or web sites would you add to the resource list? Why did I go?

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JUNE 19, 2009

So, now people can go on the site and support projects. In order to try to replace some of that revenue, we built a state of the art Web 2.0, Cross-posted from BlogHer. Losing some, a lot of fundraising in the process, but gaining more than we could ever have imagined in impact and long term change. Is that how it works?

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