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Happy Birthday Beth!!!!
Seems like you just led all of us in your fabulously fun birthday drive last year..can it be that it's already time for another?
Wheee!
And so it is with a bit of shakin it up. This year, as you now know Amy Sample Ward and Stacy Monk invited all of us to blog a special birthday message to you as our way of thankin you for:
1. all the ways you've impacted us.
2. to further promote your birthday wish: to raise funds for The Sharing Foundation to support Cambodian children's education.
3. to improve the data you'll review when you guest lecture for the Power of Social Technology graduate class at Stanford Business School, designed to answer the question "How to leverage the power of new social technology to effectively create real social good."
And for readers of this post, in today's course, Beth will measure how often tweets and retweets about her birthday drive occur and have students reflect on the process while considering motives behind each tweet. And there's even chocolate involved! Fun and Yum. :)
Beth, as for your impact on me personally and professionally, it's no understatement to attribute the beginnings of my confidence in the power of social media for social good based on several stories you told when we first met 2.5 years ago.
Here's just a few:
- First off, you evidence the wonder of motherhood, parenting your beloved Harry and Sara two Cambodian children whose adoption process birthed your endeavors with blogging. This will always be the greatest impact you've had on me because this single act--of adopting and raising children who needed a mommy--resonates with a deep desire of mine as well. When you first shared how you began to blog about the process of adoption at BlogHer Chicago, 2007, you made my heart stand still. It was the end of the first day, my first blogging conference. And here was a women with a love of children and something about the reality of blogging our life stories became so powerfully real to me.
- Later in that same presentation, you spoke about your recent fundraising campaign during a presentation at a conference and I remember zeroing into this phrase: social media for social good. A fire was lit in me that moment. I'd found a set of tools I could use to connect with other like minds across the globe and impact change.
- Schwag for Clogger Summit '07: Again, BlogHer Chicago 2007: You collected tshirts to bring to the Clogger Summit 2007 for Cambodian students. You said they'd really dig our swag. You wouldn't let us toss ours. I think you took over an entire extra suitcase of swag tshirts! That was impressive. But moreso was the personal recognition, the mom in you, who'd seen a simple need and were filling it. And can we just pause: you were on your way to teach social media at the Clogger Conference in Cambodia. And you were thrilled! And I was in awe. Still am. You are such a living example of how to be a global citizen, how to live without borders. :)
- And so it should come as no surprise that you are a woman of unceasing warmth, constant "how can I help" and depth of technological genius that ensures you this thought-leader is breaking down borders of thought, old paradigm, and outdated ways of doing things.
- Of course you soon became one of my must reads daily--because yes, you post that often, solid content worth learning, and you continue to wow with how many links, topics, and trends you're able to crank out seeming effortlessly. (
- An informer of support systems for the have laptop/will travel world blogger: You are how I first learned of napping suites in Heathrow's airport...you were flying from Miami to Romania with a stopover at Heathrow. w to present at yet another conference and here you were feeding your readers, blogging about her journey, sharing about the cool digs you found to rent at Heathrow for a quick nap after being awake for 36 hrs straight I think?
- A constant innovator...I was so impressed when I learned about your proposed challenge to Boston's Social Media Breakfast along with Robert Collins when just prior to Thanksgiving '08, ya'll challenged the breakfast bunch to retweet Tyson Food's promise to donate lbs of meat to Greater Boston's Food Bank. As a
