Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Click To Play Here a round up of some the fabulous women Bloghers in Cambodia and Linux Chix that I met. It had nothing to do with saving the world or strengthening Cambodia???s and Skype and everyone was impressed to see the possibilities of connecting with someone they knew from Cambodia who was in the US.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Note from Beth: My colleague, John Weeks, is an expat nonprofit techie living and working in Cambodia. We first connected back in 2004 when I started my first blog on Cambodia and was covering the Cambodian Blogosphere for Global Voices. Each day after I gave away the ten dollars I would post it in social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2006

And the next thing I know he invites me to the International NGO Flickr Group. While browsing, happened to notice blogher Kalabird, who is doing NGO work in Cambodia has contributed a few. I love this one: Technorati Tags: ngo , nonprofit , non-profit , nptech , flickr

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2007

They are organizing the first " Cambodian Blogger Summit (aka Cloggers Summit) " to take place 30-31 August 2007 in Cambodia. So, I'm turning to the power of personal fundraising and hoping that you, my readers, friends of my readers, and friends will support in my desire to make a difference in Cambodia. Keynote welcome.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2006

between Cambodia and Vietnam. Licado, a Cambodian human rights NGO, has launched an awareness campaign to call attention to these abuses and garner support from the International community for the detainees by putting the Association for Freedom of Expression in Cambodia yellow ribbon on your website and link to this page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

This event is a biannual training workshop on information, communication, and technologies for citizen media, community health, and civil society development in Mekong Region and included participants are coders, journalists, and NGO staff from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. Format: Our session was 90 minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

In less than 24 hours, I will be boarding a plane bound for Mumbai to present at the NASSCOM conference called NASSCOM India Leadership where I'll be on a panel on NGO and Social Media as well as lead a discussion at an unconference on whether CEO/Executive Director's should use social media. My cards all have US data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2007

In a couple of days, video bloggers Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson will be in Cambodia doing some work with Project Hope International to help them document the work they're doing to rehabilitate people involved in human trafficking. I met Christina Arnold who told me about her NGO and their work in Cambodia. Click To Play.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Maybe my next visit to Cambodia I will have time to get to local market and pick some up for souvenirs. It became clear that social media in Cambodia means "any media that can solve social issues." Baskets labeled with future projects for the Cambodian bloggers to do as a community were set out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

I'll not only be speaking at the conference and CSR Track, but will be leading two workshops for NGO and CSR practitioners. I'll be adapting my Social Media Strategy workshop which has traveled to Romania , Australia , and Cambodia. Been researching and asking for referrals for NGO examples in India.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

How One NGO Serves 70,000 Children. This charity also has offices in India , Nepal , and Tanzania operates its own projects and supports partners in Tanzania, India, and Nepal and works on behalf of children in places like the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Pakistan, Peru, Cambodia, China, and Bangladesh.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2008

Mean Lux is a blogger in Cambodia and was one of the organizers of the Cambodia Bloggers Summer last August. He is now a Program Director for the NGO he works for in Phnom Penh. 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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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

We proudly welcome NGO partners Vietnet-ICT and the Lin Centre in Vietnam, as well as ASEAN Foundation , Kopernik Marketplace , and YCAB Foundation in Indonesia to the TechSoup Global family. Our New NGO Partners in Vietnam. Our New NGO Partners in Indonesia. The technology is shipped directly to the local NGO.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 26, 2006

Many children in Cambodia do not go to school because their families lack the $10 for a uniform, required for school attendance, and other school supplies. This year we could more than double the number of uniforms we provide to children in Cambodia, including some for HIV children's group homes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

Leng Sopharath is one of 19 college students being sponsored for college through a program of the Sharing Foundation , an ngo that works directly with local officials, orphanages, and NGOs in Cambodia to identify and carry out projects which improve the lives of children.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2006

The ngo meme is: What are the five resources that you would recommend to anybody working in an NGO who wanted to know about information management and technology but didn't know where to start. Here's the folks that I'm tagging for this NGO meme and perhaps can broadened the resources beyond US borders. Tag 5 other colleagues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

But when I realized it would take a long time before a small NGO working in a country, like say, Cambodia, might be able to purchase a small number of them (less than 100) to outfit a school, I was disappointed. Tharum was disappointed too. And, we can even load them up with KhmerOS !).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2007

She has worked for that NGO for almost two years. Many people in Cambodia are afraid to express their ideas about human rights and other issues. How come there are not so many BlogHers in Cambodia? There are women blogging in Cambodia. Not many women like to study technology and computer use in Cambodia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2006

Many children in Cambodia do not go to school because their families lack the $10 for a uniform, required for school attendance, and other school supplies. The Sharing Foundation gave them to needy children in Roteang Village, to the Street Children's Assistance NGO, and to a poor government orphanage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2006

Image from Internet Village Motoman project in Ratanakiri Village in Cambodia The above image is from the Ratanakiri Village project in Cambodia. The village is located in a remote region of Cambodia's northeast. There are no highways, no electricity, and villagers life a simple life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2007

In Cambodia, the term is defined as "any media that can solve social issues." He not only sent me the narrative below, but created a story map and listed key themes Once upon a time, there is a family, the husband, wife and daughter, living in a remote area of Cambodia. My group was assigned to "Social Media."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2006

I just set up a ChipIn page and widget (see above) to help raise money for an NGO, the Sharing Foundation that supports children in Cambodia. I'm on the board. One of its many programs is the college sponsorship program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2006

With the arrest of a leading advocate for freedom of expression in Cambodia the last night, there were scant few photos available in flickr. Technorati Tags: ngo , flickr , net2 , nptech It made me wonder about training materials available for using flickr and the extensions available. Flickr Tools The Great Flickr Tool Collection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2005

In isolated and rural areas of third world countries like Cambodia, where electricity and power lines are not available, not very reliable or expensive, alternative sources such as solar or battery power are employed. But now comes the possibility of running your computer and getting on the Internet using, well, poop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2007

Through a strange twist of fate, I connected again with Kalabird one of the first ex-pat bloggers from Cambodia that I discovered in 2005 because of her amazing photographs in flickr. How did you end up in Cambodia? What did you do while your in Cambodia (and Kenya)? I also wasn't able to shift my major that late in the game.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

David Saski from Global Voices and who is running the Rising Voices project will also be at the Cambodia Bloggers Summit in Phnom Penh next week. It reminded of the ngo in a box collection of open source video editing tools that I read about on the NTEN blog. I also found a manual for Kino , a video editing program that runs on Linux.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

This is so much what I'd love to see happen in Cambodia - to see a video of daily life in a developing country through the eyes of people who actually live there. This NGO is at the initial stages of its development and is yet to be registered. I'm addicted to Swajana which means ???our our people??? video team. churning???)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2006

But that isn't the case for an ngo working a developing country or extremely rural area. I remember this from my time in Cambodia where I was an hour's drive from the nearest Internet cafe while teaching ESL in the Roteang Village School english program. I usually left my laptop back in the hotel and packed all my paper resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2005

Tharum , who works for a a Cambodian NGO, recently wrote about how flickr helps more people learn about Cambodia. Technorati Tags: nptech cambodia. The opportunities for shared knowledge capture are powerful and fairly easy to set up and use -- by simply by using the comments to have a dialogue around the visual. discussion."

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NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Between now and December 31st, Beth is working to raise $750 for the Sharing Foundation , an NGO that works with local officials, orphanages, and NGOs in Cambodia to improve children's lives. ChipIn allows a group of people to collect money online whether it is for a birthday gift, a party or a fundraiser.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2007

My thoughts are still half-way around the world in Cambodia and, in the US, we don't have the added challenge of a slow Internet connection. In Cambodia, NGO staffers were eager to learn about Web 2.0 The recommendations in the report call for more institutionalized capacity building programs around Web2.0.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

Two weeks ago, I took a homecoming trip to Cambodia with my family. For those of you who have been following my blogging since 2004, you already know that Cambodia is in my heart! When my husband and I were in Cambodia in 2000 to bring home Harry, our infant son, we got a blessing from a monk. p/N5Kf7LlZpl/.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2006

Annette is involved with a ngo called Half the Sky Foundation that supports orphans in china with educational and development programs. Very similar work to the Sharing Foundation that works in Cambodia with children - disclosure- I'm on the board).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2007

This is my first trip to Cambodia during rainy season, so I was really amused the huge downpour and thunderstorm (the porch was protected). So, later we met up at the Khmer Sirin restaurant for a delicious dinner of traditional khmer food. We dined outside on the porch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2011

Networked NGO. I spent my part of my birthday giving a presentation at the Packard Foundation Program Forum on translating the Networked Nonprofit into the Networked NGO. I spent my part of my birthday giving a presentation at the Packard Foundation Program Forum on translating the Networked Nonprofit into the Networked NGO.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2009

This nonprofit helps to care for children in Cambodia. If you want to know more about why my family and I care about the children of Cambodia and this charity, take a minute to watch this video my son, Harry, made last year.). It was founded by retired pediatrician, Dr. Nancy Hendrie. (If Can you think of a better use of $10 or more?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2009

If you want to know more about why my family and I care about the children of Cambodia and this charity, take a minute to watch this video my son, Harry made.) This is my 7th personal fundraising campaign using social media tools to help the children of Cambodia. We send it out quarterly with detailed reports.

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