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

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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. Workshop Handouts work in Arabic and French. 1. Facilitating Tri-Lingual Events: Not Lost in Translation.

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The Power of Our Collective Professional Networks and Transdisciplinarity Learning

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Since we were working on how to integrate networked leadership principles into the design of a program, I wanted to incorporate an icebreaker that helped us visualize our professional networks and see the interactions. .” I’ve subsequently have used this exercise in many different contexts for different purposes.

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Happy, Focused, and Productive: There Is An App for That!

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One of my colleagues, Nada Hamzeh , a nonprofit capacity building consultant from Lebanon, tagged me when sharing this striking image that depicts how can easily develop a behavior addiction to our mobile phones. And that causes stress unless we reflect and analyze how we are actually using our time. Image by Ayyamsyria.

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

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I have the honor of co-training with some of the best folks doing work in this part of the world. The workshop was based on the concepts in The Networked Nonprofit , including listening, transparency, simplicity, social culture, and working with free agents. NGOS that work like fortresses. Why do we need it?

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

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

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I started work on the E-Mediat project over a year ago. 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.

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What can you learn by visualizing your Twitter network?

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When we apply a network mindset to the way we work – whether as an individual or as part of a network strategy, we believe that value is created through our connections, interactions and building relationships. This has been the most important lesson for me in shifting the way I work to a more networked approach.