Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 5, 2013

Diplomatic leaders leaders gathered in Marrakesh, Morocco. Last month, leaders from around the world gathered in Marrakesh, Morocco, with the hope of taking a huge step forward and designing that international model. We help more than 250,000 people with print disabilities thanks to our U.S. copyright exception.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

E-Mediat is working with more than 220 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, and Yemen. The spirit of experimentation and learning in the lab is not only inspiring, but a terrific example of how organizations with agile cultures work. Rami Al-Karmi, N2V Lab. I’m looking out my hotel window at the Dead Sea in Jordan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

It was inspired by a conversation we had during the planning sessions in San Francisco in January about whether or not there was an Arabic word for Nerd (there isn’t). His organization’s name, Shabakat , translates into the word “network.&#. They’ve simplified and focused on what they do best.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Marjorie Kittle, our Director of Finance and Operations, and I (Peg Giffels, Director of Community Engagement), hosted a wide-ranging conversation about technology, nonprofits, and community needs. In the end there was a shared understanding that technology can be a game-changer for community organizations. org website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Once you or your organization views the world with a networked mindset, then you need to visualize the network. That’s social capital and it does have value. The impact, longer term, is innovation or the result of the network in action. Let’s focus on the very first steps. There are many approaches and visual analysis tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

I’ve been tasked with designing and facilitating a session for trainers during our two-day e-Mediat networked nonprofit and social media bootcamps in Jordan and Morocco. The training for the NGOs that have completed the 5 workshops from the different countries over the past year. Then the group draws the connections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

The goal is to train over 150-250 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Yemen, Morocco, and other countries and help them put social media skills into practice. Provide digital infrastructure to the 150 – 250 organizations through a public-private partnership with Microsoft. Insight #1: Build Time for Getting To Know Each Other At The Beginning.

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