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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. Group Photo with Certificates.

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

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Effective learning that creates results and transfers to action over time starts with unleashing people’s existing knowledge – they need to pull forward pre-existing information. Effective training is not about stuffing content down people’s throats, but giving them an opportunity to digest it.

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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. It is an effective technique to use to help participants process what they’ve learned and to harvest insights. In the above video, Naeema Zarif.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

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For the networked nonprofit workshops I facilitate, I’ve developed a maturity of practice assessment called “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly ” which gives me a detailed understanding of where the organization is in its practice. The physical space you are working in will also help inform your design.

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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.

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Meeting the Geeks of Arabia at N2Vlabs Talks in Amman, Jordan

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E-Mediat is working with more than 220 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, and Yemen. Azzam’s software and hard project allows people with quadriplegia, those who do not have use of their hands and arms, to use a computer. You have to opt out of it, but most people give because many in Jordan have been touched by cancer.

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