Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

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.) Design for Flexibility.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2012

.” 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. In addition, there was live translation in both languages. 12 training centers have been established.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2011

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Designing and delivering a training to a nonprofit audience is not about extreme content delivery or putting together a PowerPoint and answering questions. If you want to get results, you need to think about instructional design and learning theory. And, there is no shortage of learning theories and research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

As the instructor, it felt a lot less like training people – and more like a peer learning, professional development experience. I ended the day inspired and optimistic (although pretty jet lagged) about the potential impact of a networked capacity building project in this part of the world.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 2, 2005

Walking into the medina, the old part of Tunis, I suddenly acquired very friendly people from Tunisia speaking good English (which is unusual, since English is about language number six in usefulness in Tunisia, after Arabic, French, Italian, Spanish and German). Helpful people, really. My new friends.

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