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The Power of Our Collective Professional Networks and Transdisciplinarity Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Once we mapped the network on the wall before our eyes, we reflected on the following questions: * What are the points of connection? I’ve subsequently have used this exercise in many different contexts for different purposes. There are two different lens to think about network mapping.

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What can you learn by visualizing your Twitter network?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The participants include in-country teams from six different countries: Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. On each team, we have master trainers, training center coordinators, and social media advisors. As part of that first day, we’ll be creating individual and collective network maps.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Then each person introduced themselves to the group using the sticky notes and added them to the wall. Each country was represented in a different color.

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5 Ways to Use Data Storytelling for Advocacy

Tech Soup

Sometimes, it requires taking a step back to gain perspective on all the different ways data storytelling can enhance advocacy efforts. Over the past year, many different initiatives and projects have emerged that focus on tracking people killed during interaction with law enforcement. Mix It Up: Different Mediums for More Impact.

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E-Mediat: Networked Capacity Building in the Middle East

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. We created a network map. The implementation team was in the conference room in San Francisco for the first time, plus we had in-country leaders on Skype and phone.

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SXSW Reflection: Using Social Media to Facilitate A Global Back Channel at a Panel Session

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Over the past month, I have been thinking about a couple of different ideas and how to incorporate them into training design to facilitate learning. My questions are: 1. Balancing Content and Interaction in the Room and Accounting for Different Learning Styles. I also pinged people in my network from different countries.

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[VIDEO] Using WhatsApp to Increase Engagement with Multicultural Communities

Bloomerang

So people that speak multiple languages or that live in different countries that have different ways of communicating and of seeing the world. And I’ve noticed how different people communicate, how different people interact. So do you see in this map, WhatsApp is a top social messaging app in the world.