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Learnings and Reflections from BlogHer about Mobile Phones for Video Blogging and Beyond

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the ideas I've been exploring is the whole notion of video blogging from Cambodia by Cambodians. While I was in Chicago, Ryanne Hodson , who I met at last year's BlogHer, is in Cambodia and Southeast Asia with Jay Dedman to document the work of Project Hope International. But, the brain fog has started to fade.

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Desiree Adaway, Global Service and Leadership: How I Have Fun, Do Good

Have Fun - Do Good

I have watched Buddhist monks pray at Ta Prohm in Cambodia. Ta Prohm Temple, Angkor, Cambodia Seriously awesome, right? Some of my greatest memories are off the worksite. I have danced with an entire village in Ghana. I have watched the sun set as I sailed the Nile on a felucca. Yet it goes deeper than an exotic location.

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7 Things I learned From #Beth53 Fundraiser and PoST Class

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Chocolate activates the pleasure center of the brain, at least according to some research. After a nervous giggle, I shared with them that donating and volunteering does the same thing as chocolate to your brain. That means 454 youngsters will be able to attend school in Cambodia and hopefully, fine, a route out of poverty.

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RSS Readers and the Search for Content

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I love ( and hate ) how blogs, rss, tags, and these other tools are so right-brained and being able to indulge in some non-linear thinking. When I find a blog by serependity or if referred to in another blog I'm reading, I'm now asking myself: Is the blog content of interest to me for my npo/ed tech work or Cambodia work or personal reasons?

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Solutionary Women: Jessica Jackley Flannery of Kiva

Have Fun - Do Good

Basically, we had lunch every few weeks for that year and I was able to pick his brain and ask questions. We had an intern go to Cambodia and visit one of the businesses that was supposed to have started a fruit stand. Meanwhile, I was talking to a lot of other people as well. There have been borrowers who have not been model citizens.

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