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

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See the above video, created by team in Tunisia, which summarizes the program.) It was also an opportunity for me to co-facilitate with in-country team, meet the NGOs and hear their stories first-hand, and learn a lot about modeling and adapting interactive training techniques for different cultures.

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

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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. You can read more about it on the Tunisia Team’s blog.

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The Power of Our Collective Professional Networks and Transdisciplinarity Learning

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Earlier this month, I had an opportunity to facilitate a full-day innovation lab for an amazing group of network thinkers using human design methods to inform the design of a leadership network. It has been exactly a year since I have committed to practicing the methods from Luma Institute as part of improving my facilitation practice.

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E-Mediat: Day 2 – The Networked NGO in the Arab World

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Shabakat Al Ordon trains young people in technical, professional and facilitation skills who then go out and create programs to train people in their communities. They also work many different partners to spread the program so that his organization isn’t doing everything. They’ve simplified and focused on what they do best.

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Trainer’s Notebook: The Art of Good Openings and Closings

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I’ve used the burning question technique in many different ways over the years, this is an example of one way to do it. This is an exercise I used in Tunisia. Sunrise on Sacred Maori Land outside of Auckland, NZ. Circle and Workspace in New Zealand. New Zealand: Tables for Small Group Exercises.

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E-Mediat Day 4: What does it mean to be a social media trainer?

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Day 4 of the Train the Trainers E-Mediat was designed and facilitated by the capable SMEXbeirut Team – including Jessica Dheere , Mohamad Najem , and Naeema Zarif. The debriefing prompted a wide range of insights, particularly how to facilitate a training when you have individuals with a wide range of knowledge and skills.

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

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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.