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Studies have also shown that women bring in half or more of the income in 55% of U.S. 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.

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JUNE 22, 2010

I’ve been following Charlene Li’s work since I heard her keynote at the BlogHer 2005 conference. James Leventhal told us all the Smithsonian Commons is a beautiful case study in transparency and nonprofits. Both Allison Fine and I are truly blessed to have such gracious and supportive colleagues and friends at TechSoup.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2018

I’ve been writing a blog for over a decade and in the early days I got a big boost from Blogher, co-founded by Elisa Camahort Page, one of the co-authors of this book. It includes checklists, interviews, case studies, and lots of illustrations and infographics.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2006

" So, I'm sharing a little getting started advice, a mini-case study, and a list of resources. The Case Study. I interviewed Tuesday Gutierrez from SaveGuimaras over at blogher. This article on idealware, Using Social Networks to Stop Genocide by Ivan Booth is an excellent and detailed case study.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 6, 2009

A September 2007 Ode magazine article, Giving Makes Us Happy , describes a 60-year study by Paul Wink of Wellesley College that followed the lives of about 200 people. Cross-posted from BlogHer. When you lose your job, you can lose not only your cash flow, but also your confidence. What's one answer to the unemployment blues?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2006

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 ). As of today, contributors have helped me raise $381 towards the $750 goal. Lisa's post is here. I enjoy reading Lisa's blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2007

tools) can make their study, work, and life easier. Identify and interview 3-5 amazing Cambodian BlogHers and post on BlogHer site. I've been given an opportunity to help by leading a training and sharing my experience with nonprofits and social media. Document the learnings from this personal fundraising campaign.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2010

A group of us touring, studying, and volunteering in Cape Town, South Africa Seriously! You can find her on twitter @ajlovesya , on facebook , or visit her at allisonj.org Allison Jones, Millennial Leader: How I Have Fun, Do Good How do I have fun and do good? I invite people along for the ride.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2007

In return, I would write up a case study of what I did. 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. While visiting the BlogHer exhibits, I stopped by the Scrapblog booth to say hello because I'm huge fan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

I referenced Liza Sabater's Brown Bloggers meetups, but could not point to any studies or stats. One of my Twitter followers, @persistance pointed me to Shireen Mitchell (aka @digitalsista ) who is moderating a session at BlogHer, DC about online community building for political action. Photo by MckaySavage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Next, Danielle Brigida gave a case study about how NWF uses Twitter. Did get one party hosted by Carwoo and organized by Renee Blodgett who I met a BlogHer in 2005. Cartoon by Rob Cottingham of Social Signal. We were lucky that Rob Cottingham from Social Signal was in the room cartoon blogging. He captured the key points above.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 7, 2011

It took a year of philosophy and anatomy study (and, more than I expected, self study) to earn my certification, but I found that the teaching staff's patience and encouragment made me a better teacher too. By the time the story ran, I was so in awe of the Art of Yoga Project's work that I enrolled in a yoga teacher training.

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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. Non-profits typically have such a community going into the game, so the question becomes how can the blog enhance the effort, and who should blog. The same might work extremely well for a non-profit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

Mongkol, a Cambodian college student who is studying in the US on a Fullbright Scholarship and knows the importance of a college education had this to say. Britt Bravo on her personal blog. smArts & Culture FiSpace Micropersuasion E-politics. Ricardo Carreon. Solution Grove.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2007

For BlogHer, I'm on a panel with Britt Bravo and I have to present the widget fundraising case study in ten minutes. This came just in the nick of time as I'm remixing my Web 2.0 workshops for July. These are all on the on the topic of Web2.0 tools and fund raising. rest of the session will be discussion/questions).

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NOVEMBER 9, 2010

She is the creative director and founder of Tranquil Space (named among the top 25 yoga studios in the world by Travel + Leisure ), author of Hip Tranquil Chick and Tranquilista , and holds a Masters in Women's Studies. She blogs and podcasts at Tranquility du Jour and tweets at @kimberlywilson.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2006

A study for the nonprofit Womens Way found that women who volunteered improved their leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills. about the study. Image via VolunteerMatch Hat tip to Joanne Fritz for info. women volunteer

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

When I first started teaching dance fitness, I approached it with a more serious attitude, as I had found my strength studying martial arts. It has been a lengthy process of reclaiming movement and dance. And, myself. I taught my classes by mixing kickboxing with dance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

Later that summer, I had the honor of being interviewed by Ponzi at BlogHer. Just want to put in a plug for Sarah Davis's presentation about Geeks Inheriting the Earth and Creative Commons - she will be presenting the case study at sxsw, but only if you vote for her panel ! s very difficult to decide which to attend.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 22, 2007

Thanks to a referral from fellow BlogHer, Tara Hunt , I had the opportunity to fill in for a panelist at the Bioneers Conference yesterday--an annual meeting of environmental and social justice activists. For me, the highlight of the day was hearing Winona LaDuke's talk, "Seeds the Creator Gave Us."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

I came across a study of "hyperconnectedness" about six months, blogged it here. I think it was 2006 when the entire room of 1400 bloggers burst into spontaneous singing of this song at BlogHer. The form matters not at all: what matters is that it’s happening, all around us, everywhere throughout the world.

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JANUARY 25, 2009

Panels include discussions on Feminism on the Move - Where We Were and Where Are We Now with panelists ranging from Elisa Camahort Page, Co-Founder of BlogHer to Eleanor Smeal, President of Feminist Majority and moderated by Shireen Mitchell, Vice Chair of the National Council of Women’s Organizations. Receive monthly updates.

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 2, 2008

Here are what some people wrote in the comments of the original post on Have Fun * Do Good and BlogHer that they were going to do : Green LA Girl said she would pack her own chopsticks.

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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)

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Last week, after the election, BlogHer co-founder Lisa Stone, asked What Will You Do To Change America? A team of us said, "We would study what works in citizen engagement." A team from Circle of Life , and myself, went around and started studying organizing models. What had she learned, what had she studied?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 10, 2006

The podcast isn't up yet, but here is a partially modified transcription of our conversation which you can also read along with profiles of other Solutionary Women on Blogher : What is SOUL? Last week I sat down with a former co-worker, Mei-ying Ho, who is now the Co-Director of SOUL , for an interview for my Big Vision podcast.

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JUNE 7, 2006

Last month I wrote a short post for Blogher, Roadies for a Cause , about a nonprofit called Lokahi Outreach , that partners with organizations like the ONE campaign and Oxfam to help them do grassroots campaigning on the road. The organization's founder, Brande Jackson, took the time to answer my Solutionary Women e-interview questions.

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APRIL 24, 2007

PR: I got interested in issues of hunger and poverty when I was in college, and was particularly interested in rural poverty in the developing world, and started studying ways to approach that, alternative ways to approach that. BB: What brought you to this work? Transcription by CastingWords Fair Trade coffee Transfair

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MAY 14, 2009

Read the full case study here. You can read the full case study here. To get started and to review more case studies, visit: [link]. In the Google Earth case studies, the projects all had real world impact but they remained focused on that, and not on just using everything that maps can do. Why is Joomla listed twice?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2005

She cited statistics from National Science Foundation Studies. My fellow blogher, Lisa Williams , disagreed on this point. She suggested that we "propagate memes" - as she called to the bloghers in the room - go forth and propogate memes! Historical statistics aren't particularly helpful. What does this mean?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2006

Maybe it is part of the gearing up for the upcoming session at Blogher called " Get Deeply Geeky." Going beyond tools, however, Nancy White points out an article about a study that shows that women often rank their tech skills lower than they actually are. I will be posting interviews with them in a few weeks, so stay tuned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

Social and Nonprofits ROI: Case Study Slam submitted by Beth Kanter Using a poetry slam format, each panelist will present a five-minute poem or story about how their organization has successfully implemented a social media strategy experiment and how they considered the ROI. I'll do another Get Out The Nonprofit Vote at SXSW Post each week).

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JUNE 19, 2009

Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. I committed to learning more, and I went to Stanford and started studying Swahili and African studies. Cross-posted from BlogHer.

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JUNE 30, 2007

Is anyone studying diversity work or anti-oppression work here at Stanford? laughs] And I was supposed to be a doctor, and I almost came to Stanford, but I stayed in the Midwest and studied biomedical engineering. And I was an artist -- and I was studying art at that time, so it was all good -- and decided to do all the packaging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2008

Last month I attended the " Twenty-Something Meet Up " at the BlogHer Conference, facilitated by the fabulous Zandria. It's not a nonprofit example, but it serves as an interesting case study for nonprofits. The question. " was raised. I left room inspired to compile a living list.

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