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E-Mediat: Social Media Capacity Building for NGOs in the Arab World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The project is training 300 NGOs in Jordan , Lebanon , Tunisia , Morocco , and other Arab countries to become networked ngos and use social media for civil society goals. A true public/private partnership, the funding partners include Microsoft and craiglist Charitable Fund. I’ll be Jordan and Morocco in March, 2011).

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The Power of Our Collective Professional Networks and Transdisciplinarity Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

.” I first used this exercise in 2011 in Lebanon to kick off E-Mediat project that brought trainers and capacity builders from 5 countries in the Middle East to be trained on curriculum based on my book, the Networked Nonprofit , and interactive training techniques. In this case, I used the exercise to help the teams from Yemen, Morocco, (..)

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Data Digest: Open Data for Africa Platform, Silent Data Revolution in MENA and Data Strategies

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A silent data revolution in the Arab World This World Bank blog post by Paolo Verme explains how the 2011 Arab Revolution also led to a lesser recognised cultural revolution with regard to open data.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Social Media is all.

ASU Lodestar Center

Disclaimer Friday, May 27, 2011 Research Friday: Social Media is all around us - How do we embrace the trend? Social media, particularly, have proven to be powerful and exceedingly important, especially as we watch the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt. Research Friday: Really, Your Tax Exemption has be.

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E-Mediat Day 1: A Networked Mindset To Capacity Building

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

February 27, 2011. In the morning, we did a team building exercise to better understand the network core, the in-country teams from Yemen, Morocco, Lebanon, Tunisia, and Jordan. A true public/private partnership, the funding partners include Microsoft and craiglist Charitable Fund.

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Great reads from around the web on February 15th

Amy Sample Ward

As of November 2011, 89.6 | NTEN – "What if you found out that one-quarter of your subscribers were reading your emails on their mobile phones? There’s a good chance they already are. And if they’re not, they will be soon!) million Americans are using their mobile phones to access their work or personal email.

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Great reads from around the web on September 19th

Amy Sample Ward

The Revolutions Were Tweeted: Visualizing Prominent Information Flows during the Tunisia and Egypt Revolutions – This is a very cool visualization from danah boyd pulling together twitter accounts and displaying tweets, reactions, and much more. Any others you'd add?

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