Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2013

Our collection includes children’s books from Scholastic, contemporary books from Arab Scientific Publishers in Lebanon and literary books from the public domain from Kotobarabia in Egypt. Diacritics in Arabic are crucial to identifying how words are pronounced and to disambiguating their meanings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2017

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. Idonethis – A simple app that helps you and your team track what’s been done. Image by Ayyamsyria. Productivity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

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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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

What training would help address that problem, and why? This was because you had to cut your budget, and the volunteers who usually helped with mailings weren’t available—so no mailings were sent. What specific, measurable results will occur once that training is complete? Take revenue generation as an example.

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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.) Showcase Panel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

E-Mediat is working with more than 220 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, and Yemen. During the next two days, I will be facilitating a two-day social media bootcamp for NGOs from Jordan and Lebanon that have been through the program in their respective countries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2011

We will have a simultaneous tweet-up taking place in Beirut, Lebanon and connect with them on Twitter using the hashtag #netnon. Twitter advocates include: Katie Shields, Dan Portnoy, Evonne Heyning, and Fran Stephenson. If you’re coming to SXSW and want to help out, leave a comment below. Here’s the world time clock.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Your local NetSquared group is here to help with free, in-person events being held across the U.S. NetSquared organizers are also offering hands-on Office 365 workshops this fall to help small nonprofits set up email with their own domain name. Baltimore, Maryland: Salesforce CRM Tutorial and Free Tech Help Session!

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Tech Soup

JUNE 30, 2017

Beirut, Lebanon: Lebanon's Digital Big Bang — An AltCity Info Session. Social Media Surgery — Hands-on Help with Social Media. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Social Media Surgery — Hands-on Help with Social Media. Tuesday, August 15, 2017. Jakarta, Indonesia: YouTube for Nonprofits. Monday, July 3, 2017.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

The 5K Visual Browser is one tool that help you see connections between the people you interact with on Twitter. One efficient technique is to spend five minutes of your day at the end reflecting. What if you used that five minutes of reflection, to visualize and understand your network?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Hamra, Lebanon: The Dream Matcher Experience — Beirut. Hamra, Lebanon: ARTECHA: Art and Technology Hackathon. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Social Media Surgery — Hands-on Help with Social Media. Solar Mobile Computer Training Meetup for Kibiribiri Primary School 1. Asia and Pacific Rim. Wednesday, November 4, 2015.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2013

A lot of helpful and insightful digital storytelling advice was shared; below are some of the highlights: India: NASSCOM Foundation, TechSoup Global partner, led the way with How to Create High Impact Stories. Beirut, Lebanon: NetSquared Beirut. What the videos had in common was their use of emotion to drive the narrative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2011

Nada, In-Country Team Leader for Lebanon. There was a link from Day 2 about Networked NGOs which included a case study of how the project took a “networked approach&# to its campaign. The morning session focused on the building blocks of strategy – SMART objectives, audience identification, and messaging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Most traditional media are paying attention to political aspects of the war, but no matter what the theories are, the reality is that 7,000 children have died and 4 million more children need emergency help. We are working with refugees on the ground in Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq. Even small donations can make a difference.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2016

We'd love to help you start a new meetup. Hamra, Lebanon: FREE Design Basics Workshop. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Social Media Surgery — Hands-on Help with Social Media. See if there's a group close to you by searching our map. Don't have a NetSquared group near you? Upcoming Events. Friday, January 29, 2016.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

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. Establish local networks of individuals and organizations using social media to help build stronger organizations and more participatory societies. Some Connection Points: Learning.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2015

Columbus, Ohio: Formatting … Styles …Themes — Do You Know How They Can Help or Hurt You in Microsoft Office Programs? Cambridge, United Kingdom: Social Media Surgery — Hands-on Help with Social Media. Beirut, Lebanon: Start-up Ideation Meets Design by Bootcamp During BDW. Thursday, June 4, 2015.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2015

Beirut, Lebanon: Android Development for Teens. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Social Media Surgery — Hands-on Help with Social Media. Abidjan, Ivory Coast: NetSquared Monthly Meetup. Friday, April 24, 2015. Mukono, Uganda: Two Hens per Child Computer Training Meetup for St. John Kaama School. Asia and Pacific Rim. Monday, April 20.

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Tech Soup

MAY 6, 2016

We're helping to bridge that gap. SMEX, also known as Social Media Exchange, is a nonprofit based in Lebanon that compiles an Arab digital rights dataset. Setting up such a project can require a team of designers, developers, and coders to bring it to life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

I like to use a wireless mic and roam the audience and ask questions that help create a bridge between the presenters and the audience. producer who can help with the AV and two laptops. Also, if you’re using videos, wireless mics, and fixed mics – make sure the conference provider has enough audio inputs.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2015

NetSquared is here to help you along the way with everything from slide templates to planning checklists. There's probably a NetSquared group near you , but if there isn't, we'll help you start your own. Vancouver, British Columbia: Digital Makeover: Apply Now for Help from Our Experts. Check out one of our events!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

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. To help change attitudes, modeling is important as well as sharing stories of what similar organizations have accomplished.

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DipJar

APRIL 19, 2021

Now that you identified someone who cares about your mission and has the capacity to help in a big way, you’ll want to connect with them. So yes, for 2021, whether you’re looking for clients to consume your offerings or donors to help fund them, effective marketing is the key. . Simply put: if they care, they’ll give. . You’re not.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The NetSquared organizers' events help TechSoup deliver on our shared mission of ensuring that civil society has the tools and skills necessary to use technology effectively. At each event, we're helping to build and sustain a self-supporting community of practice for tech-minded nonprofit staffers. Saturday, January 14, 2017.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 15, 2021

Most will be glad to help—but it can take a lot of work to get your foot in the door and begin climbing the ladder. Over his 30-year career, Hugg has held positions at the Boy Scouts of America, Lebanon Valley College, the University of Cincinnati, Ursinus College, and the University of the Arts. The Bottom Line So what’s not a myth?

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DECEMBER 16, 2021

As we walk through these different types of nonprofit professional development resources, consider your needs and interests as a nonprofit professional to find the resource that will be most beneficial to you and help contribute to your organization’s overall. development. . Academic Classes. board members. Galaxy Digital.

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JUNE 7, 2021

It also helps to have an ongoing “fundraising minute” training at each board meeting that either highlights a new program or digs deeper into an established fundraising method. you need them to help. For the average board member, their level of training should at least parallel the training you’re giving your support staff.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

" An example is a campaign sponsored by the Women Empowerment Program at the Hariri Foundation in Lebanon. The answers to these questions helps inform your decision on whether to rely more heavily on visuals, summarize your arguments through a combination of data and visuals, or place a greater emphasis on data.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

" An example is a campaign sponsored by the Women Empowerment Program at the Hariri Foundation in Lebanon. The answers to these questions helps inform your decision on whether to rely more heavily on visuals, summarize your arguments through a combination of data and visuals, or place a greater emphasis on data.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

She spends a lot of time doing workshops, helping orgs with communications. And these are all very complicated topics sometimes, and so I started researching ways in which communication can help us explain very complex topics in very simple ways. So people were organizing to help people in their neighborhoods.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2012

Unfortunately, our presenter from Lebanon had connectivity issues and was unable to present. Giselle has been using Razoo to help raise funds for her to make the trip and she still has a way to go before reaching her goal. (I made a small donation and hope you might consider a small gift too). Next we heard from Dr.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 19, 2009

Over 8 weeks this last fall, I had the privilege of working with NGOs from Afghanistan, Cambodia, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria, in a series of trainings that took place in Phnom Penh, Beirut and Istanbul. Past partners have included NGOs and nine truth commissions.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2006

The Center helps to build local, regional, and national networks of young activists, across interests, constituencies and geographies. It's about Israel and Lebanon and I was like, "I'll definitely do that, I'll definitely do that." Having these other moms with some perspective over time has been enormously helpful for me.

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