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Some Reflections About Civil Society 2.0 and Why I’m Not On A Plane To Tunisia Right Now

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The post I had originally planned to publish before leaving on a plane for Tunis, Tunisia was going to be all The Women’s Enterprise for Sustainability (WES) , funded through the U.S. There are so many big questions about the connected world we live and how it transforms our society, as this opinion piece from CNN discusses.

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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. See the above video, created by team in Tunisia, which summarizes the program.) Showcase Panel.

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E-Mediat Networking Conference at the Dead Sea, Jordan

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.” 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. Organizations raised almost $125,000 through integrated social media campaigns from donors.

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

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.&# The workshop was based on the concepts in The Networked Nonprofit , including listening, transparency, simplicity, social culture, and working with free agents. To identify ways to integrate “translated” Networked Nonprofit principles into social media training/coaching, as appropriate. Why do we need it? Why do we need it?

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Social Media is all.

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Disclaimer Friday, May 27, 2011 Research Friday: Social Media is all around us - How do we embrace the trend? As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice.

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

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The national anthem from Tunisia brought tears to my eyes – in part – because feeling in which they sang it – and the team leader, Chema, has a beautiful singing voice. The two discussion questions were: What are your expectations for the project as a social media trainer? Fluency in social media skills.

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Weekly Member Round Up: Technology and World Change

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He was inspired when the citizens of Egypt and Tunisia used satellite connections to contact Internet service providers in other countries, when their governments shut down access to the World Wide Web. On June 29th, the seven-city Social Media for Nonprofits conference series kicks off in San Francisco.

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