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E-Mediat: Reflections from the Conference in Fez, Morocco

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Both conference marked the end of an 18-month capacity building program that trained more than 220 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia on how to use social media effectively to advance civil society goals. See the above video, created by team in Tunisia, which summarizes the program.) And, indeed we had journalists present.

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If You Do Nothing Else, Use An Editorial Calendar and Measurement for Your Content Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: By the time you read this post, I will be in the USA from doing a training in Tunisia for NGOs and trainers who will deliver training to women entrepreneurs as part of the WES program and also improve their NGO’s use of social media. Participants at FFL Training Doing Content Strategy Brainstorm.

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E-Mediat Networking Conference at the Dead Sea, Jordan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” The conference marked the end of an 18-month capacity building program that trained more than 220 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia on how to use social media effectively to advance civil society. In addition, there was live translation in both languages. We were assigned specific seats at the VIP table.

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Bookshare.org.in (India)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Dipendra has been a subscriber to Bookshare.org for our O'Reilly technical titles, but we're trying to move beyond these into serving a full range of books with publisher and author permissions. I was able to tour the facilities, which included at least three digital recording studios using the DAISY software for human narrated books.

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Spotlight on Social Media, Crowdsourced Translation, Egyptian Protests and Diplomacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Julian’s take on the coverage: To be honest, so much of the rhetoric around the use of social media in Egypt and Tunisia makes me want to scream — folks act like these American tools just dropped from the sky like humanitarian food rations, set to save the people from their (American-supported, natch) dictators.

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Building a Global Library

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Tunisia is very interesting this week! Makes me think that a great investment in civil society is buying the electronic rights to books in many different languages and making them available for free! I gave my talk here on Tuesday, entitled: Building a Global Library for People with Print Disabilities.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In topics that I am also a subject matter expert, I draw from content in my books ,blog, content curation , or presentations. It is really important to pay attention to body language (discomfort, confusion, boredom, etc.) I always bring a suitcase of supplies, but some spaces come equipped with supplies. I do this all the time.