Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

These are two photos of me and Tharum Bun , a Cambodia blogger I met via our blogs back in 2003. In 2005, we got a chance to meet face-to-face in London at the Global Voices Blogging Summit after I transitioned from being the Cambodia bridge blogger. The IFCAsia delivered on all the reasons why someone should attend.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2007

I love that photo. I took it during my last trip to Cambodia, almost three years ago. We also have a presence at Global Giving which has recently launched a new look for its site. Those kids are the children of the poorest villagers in Roteang Village. Their parents are working on our farm project. A sort of Headstart program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2005

I'm just back from the Global s Summit in London. I think it was more intense than a Westerner's culture shock visiting Cambodia for the first time. I vlogged some of the friday night informal dinner - global dining partners - Download globaldinningpartners.wmv. I vlogged it here: Download cultureshock.wmv. tag: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2007

He's an editor at Global Voices and his personal blog, Better Days , where I first learned about RSS readers and how to use bloglines. Contribute to my latest personal fundraising campaign to support Leng Sopharath , an orphan from Cambodia, for her junior year at college. But don't take my word for it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2008

Flickr Photo. Mean Lux is a blogger in Cambodia and was one of the organizers of the Cambodia Bloggers Summer last August. He's a supporter (in spirit) of the Sharing Foundation's work - they don't use credit cards in Cambodia and so can't use the Global Giving page ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2007

Benefits of Global Blogging: Dinner Companions No Matter Where You Go! But, I manage to optimize some photos from my arrival and last night's dinner with the Clogger Team. This is my first trip to Cambodia during rainy season, so I was really amused the huge downpour and thunderstorm (the porch was protected).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

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. Here's where the coffee cup photos enter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Photo by Tharum , found on his Facebook Profile. I met her in Cambodia last month. I spotted this photo in Tharum's Facebook photos the title is "Quiet Vigil Outside Burma Embassy in Phnom Penh." " Mean Lux has a set on Flickr here and you can see a photo of his red t-shirt.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2008

I celebrated with a flickr photo birthday card remix contest. That's a photo of me celebrating my 5th birthday oh so many years ago. This year I'm gonna celebrate by trying to get 51 people to donate $10 in 51 hours to the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge over at Global Giving. Last year for the big 5.0,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

I am beginning to post the photos, videos, and notes that I took while I was there. August 31st: Cambodia Bloggers Awards Ceremony. I figured it would have a better life in Cambodia since there was a presentation about podcasting. I figured it would have a better life in Cambodia since there was a presentation about podcasting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2008

Unfortunately they don't have credit cards (that's a problem for some of the potential donors like the bloggers I met in Cambodia - take for example Denith ). I never realized this before, but one of the photos I took at the Khmer Literacy School has someone's butt in the background. I want to thank everyone who has contributed so far.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Next, I asked them to stand and take a photo of someone next to them and to post the photo on their Facebook or Twitter using our hashtag, #netnon. That’s where I first discovered and connected with the Global Voices Community around my interests in Cambodia. (I’m I’m now an advisor ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Note from Beth: As a supporter of the work that the Sharing Foundation does for children in Cambodia, I’ve seen first hand the value of literacy programs in developing countries. What a photo find!! Push yourself to really test the limits of your beliefs when thinking about our individual roles in extending literacy globally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

This album is powered by BubbleShare - Add to my blog I had the pleasure of being part of the Global s community, covering Cambodia after meeting Rebecca MacKinnon. Meanwhile, my F lickr Photo Birthday Card Remix Contest has 14 photos in it! She assembled them into a bubbleshare.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Net2 Houston, August Photo by Eschipul Nonprofits in Second Life Gala Opening Photo by RubyJi By looking at the photos tagged with NpTech, nonprofit techies were either on vacation or attending events. Maybe next week we'll see photos from BarCampBlock ? Maybe next week we'll see photos from BarCampBlock ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2007

photo by Oso Sopheap blogs at ifocus with the tagline ???three Her blog covers social, political, and economic global issues from the perspective of young Cambodian professional. Her blog covers social, political, and economic global issues from the perspective of young Cambodian professional. three dimensions of life.???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

I actually have a repertoire of stories, but one of them is about Michaela Hackner ( Kalabird.) I connected with her through her amazing photos of Cambodia on Flickr when I was covering the Cambodian blogosphere for Global Voices over five years ago.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2007

From Nhung Son's Facebook Photos Two weeks ago, Blogger Michele Martin , set up an America's Giving Challenge widget for the Sharing Foundation to support the project over at Global Giving. For most children in Cambodia this is a story that is all too common. Other bloggers have also signed up to participate and many have.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2008

Channy, who is very small, probably due to early malnutrition, is proud to be going to school as his mother never did (see photo). For most children in Cambodia this is a story that is all too common. Donate $10 or more to the Sharing Foundation through Global Giving Fundraiser set up by Blogger Michele Martin of the Bamboo project!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Flickr Photo by Ghbrett. Andy Carvin who I known probably for ten years since his early work in educational technology when he lived in Boston and through the years have connected with him in various communities from Global Voices and beyond. George Brett who took some great photos of conference. This is just a sampling.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

I did a post a few weeks ago on youth programs in TechSoup Global's new Local Impact Map and decided I hadn’t covered this resource nearly enough. demonstrates what nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries around the world are doing with their TechSoup Global software donations to further their missions. Our Local Impact Map.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2008

I took that photo back in 2004 when I had the opportunity to visit Cambodia and observe all programs for a week. Heres a recent photo of Jack and Mom taken in December 2007. I've been using this phrase that is on our Global Giving Campaign Page Route Out of Poverty for Cambodian Children. Everyday Giving Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

We connected through the "cambodia" tag on flickr because I was tracking it for Global Voices back in 2005. The first photo of hers from Cambodia was this one of the four monks crossing the street titled Abbey Road. Michaela is now director of online strategy for World Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2008

The photo above is of me, Cheryl Hanback, and Joel Remigio from 2002 when we won the "Swimming Upstream Award" for the diligent staff person who worked on the Riders Conference to make it a success. We hold a fundamental belief that technology and all of its benefits must be made available to everyone??? MediaJumpStart, 2002).

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Global Giving

JULY 12, 2017

Do you want photos in addition to video footage? But what if you are shooting in Cambodia, but showing it in the United States? Generally, audiences are much more affected by a story told through the eyes of one individual, than we are by broad statistics and surveys of global crisis. Likewise, decide if it will be 4k or 1080P.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Flickr Photo by Villoks Many people around the world are supporting the Monks in Burma by wearing red t-shirts today or participating in vigils like this one in Cambodia outside the Burma embassy. hidalgo is on "an open-source journey around the world documenting free culture, social innovators, and global change."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

Whether I'm raising money for Cambodia or Creative Commons , I try to include them in some way. We have dinner table discussions on why it is important to support causes, particularly programs in Cambodia like the Sharing Foundation. Sophie created a flier to sell Cambodian/American flag pins and raised $350 for Sharing Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Photo by Life in Africa For this week's BlogHer Holiday Guide post, I needed to come up with a list of nonprofit organizations or causes that BlogHer readers may consider making a donation to as part of their year-end giving. I have two favorites: The Sharing Foundation which supports children in Cambodia and Creative Commons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Photo by Mr. Clean1982 The NpTech Tag Summary is a weekly compilation of resources tagged with "nptech" by those who follow all things nonprofits and social media. Global Giving's " Giving Made Green " launched last week and was written up in the New York Times. More coverage in the blogosphere and beyond here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

In less than 24 hours, I've raised $806 to help children in Cambodia using a new feature in Facebook Causes. In addition to sending a birthday card, the Sharing Foundation has just launched its campaign for college student sponsorships over at Global Giving. Flickr Photo Birthday Card Remix Contest. And, yes they did !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Whether I'm fundraising for Cambodia or Creative Commons , I involve my kids. We have dinner table discussions on why it is important to support causes, particularly programs in Cambodia like the Sharing Foundation. I baked a lot of cupcakes with my mom for those bake sales. But it doesn't involve baking cupcakes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Photo by David Saski A dish was brought to the table and the Cambodian bloggers insisted that I try it. After significant peer pressure from the crew at Global Voices , I had no choice but to eat it. It reminded of the last time I was in Cambodia. It was fried ants, grasshoppers and frogs legs. Read what Sopheap had to say.

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JANUARY 29, 2008

The Sharing Foundation's mission is to help meet the physical, emotional, educational and medical needs of orphaned and seriously disadvantaged children in Cambodia. Beth is on the Board of the Foundation, and she and her husband have two children, Harry and Sara, who were adopted as orphans from Cambodia.

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JUNE 25, 2008

But the bottom-line: Cracks are showing everywhere in our increasingly unsustainable economic and environmental global order. Friday, November 21, 2008 at 3:25 pm | Permalink Ross McCulloch wrote: Loving the photos, some amazing colours in there. [link] has more examples of how much $700 billion is in a poverty context. Stunning! (I

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2005

Tharum started his blog in June 2004 while a student at the National University of Management and working for the Open Forum for Cambodia , a Cambodian NGO devoted to digital divide issues. Tharum became a celebrity blogger when his blog was featured on the front page of the Cambodia Daily (the photo above was taken during that interview).

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NOVEMBER 14, 2007

She traveled over 100,000 miles and interviewed 12 women activists who are working on solutions to everything from sex trafficking, to global warming, to AIDS. Glamour and powerHouseBooks have produced a collection of Pearl's interviews in, In Search of Hope: The Global Diaries of Mariane Pearl , which includes a Foreword by Angelina Jolie.

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