Beth Kanter not only attended the Cambodian Bloggers Summit at the beginning of September, she used ChipIn to raise the funds she needed, a great example of advocacy put into practice. While in Cambodia, Beth taught workshops on video blogging and web 2.0, ate a dish of fried ants, grasshoppers, and frogs' legs, and -- here comes the tie-in to the title of this post -- distributed t-shirts to bloggers and orphans. Nice work, Beth!

You can read more about her trip on her blog and in a new article she's published in Read/WriteWeb's ongoing series on nonprofits and technology, mentioned previously in these very pages.

Do you use Salesforce? You may want to check out these two useful tools.

The first is DemandTools, a standalone application for manipulating data and administrating your Salesforce account. DemandTools features 14 modules, but one of its more popular features is probably its extensive deduping capabilities. It has certainly made this usually repetitive task much less time consuming for me. DemandTools also has the ability to verify addresses through a third party. It's not free, but comes with 450 free "credits" per Salesforce login.

DemandTools has many more features, but it's not overwhelming. CRMfusion, the author of the application, has very neatly documented all the features on its website, including mini-presentations of how each feature works.

The second tool is the Apex Data Loader, created in-house at Salesforce to import data. I recently used it to bulk assign contact roles to a large set of opportunities in order to run a report of opportunities with contacts from accounts.

In order to test out Apex Data Loader, log into your Salesforce.com account, click Setup, Data Management, AppExchange, Data Loader, and then Download.

Also, thanks to the folks on the Nonprofit Salesforce Practitioners mailing list for bringing these useful tools to my attention.

With over 100 active groups and nearly 5,000 users, NTEN's Affinity Groups platform is an incredible resource for those in the nonprofit tech community. There are a variety of discussions constantly taking place, ranging from the very basic and elementary aspects of technology in the nonprofit sector to the more sophisticated and technical.

A lively discussion recently occurred in the general NTEN Discuss Affinity Group about running a successful webinar.

This week, I ran across oodles of great content online that I was never able to blog about. I kept them open all week in Firefox tabs, thinking that I would blog them all any minute now, but that never happened. Instead, I'll just list them here and let you make of them what you will:

• My four year old knows bad marketing. I'm always amazed how much my two year old teaches me. I think Katya nails it right on the head here.
• Culture of Training vs. Culture of Learning. Michelle Martin is wicked smart and this post is a really good one for any leader looking to build an organization that values learning.
• Social Media Adoption: The line between individual/personal and organizational. I'm going to jump in as an individual person, too, Beth. But you knew that, because I stole that slide from you!
• Quicksilver Demo by Nicholas Jitkoff. If you're an Mac OS X user, or are search-obsessed, this is pretty fascinating stuff, even when Nicholas isn't the best public speaker. Plus, follow the video to its source and find hundreds of other Google TechTalks. They are pretty awesome!