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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. In Jordan, we did the Debka, a Lebanese dance. Group Photo with Certificates. Quiet Reflection: Socoot.

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JANUARY 20, 2011

(For context, read my first post about this project.) The highlight of third day was a VIP Lunch with project sponsors, implementation team, and remote participation via skype from members of the In-Country teams in Jordan and Morocco. Rami Al-Karmi, Founder and CEO of Shabakat, Al Ordon (JordanNet) E-Mediat Strategic Advisor for Jordan.

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MARCH 1, 2011

Rami Al-Karmi , Founder and CEO of Shabakat , Al Ordon (JordanNet) and is serving as the E-Mediat Strategic Adviser for the Jordan In-Country Team shared some lessons about working as networked ngo. The participants were intrigued by the concept of Free Agents and the teams from Jordan and Lebanon discussed Free Agents in their countries.

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OCTOBER 18, 2011

Lisa Gansky’s presentation on The Mesh: Why the Future of Business is Sharing (learn more at [link] ) and the joint presentation from Bill Traynor and Audrey Jordan about Lawrence CommunityWorks, a project in Lawrence, Massachusetts that is rebuilding a profoundly shredded civic infrastructure. Audrey Jordan, a loaned exec of Annie E.

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OCTOBER 1, 2013

We are working with refugees on the ground in Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq. We conducted a live donor call from Jordan and a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) with two of our staffers who recently returned from the Syria region. Even small donations can make a difference. We even have a T-shirt coming out later this month.

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MARCH 7, 2012

Nermeen Obeidat, Country Director, Jordan, @nobeidatDiana. Heather Murphy, Senior Program Officer, @hmurphyiiesf. Stacey Ramirez, Program Officer, @ramirez_stacey. Madhavi Bhasin, Senior Program Associate, @madi_bhasin. Al-Mallahi, Training Coordinator, @dalmallahi. Nada Hamzeh, Country Directory, Lebanon, @NADO23.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2011

A big shout out to their new Director of Social Media, Jordan Viator. Social Media Initiative Guide: This guide from Spreadfast, a social media management tool vendor, has some great tips and ways to think about Key Performance Indicators, tactics, and metrics.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Note from Beth: Two years ago while working on a capacity building project for NGOs funded by the Dept of State in the Middle East, I found myself in Jordan and visiting colleague Rami Al Karmi’s start up lab. In his office, he had a stack of Lean Start Up books, authored by Eric Ries.

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JULY 26, 2007

Anyway, I had a chance to pick the brain of Rob Jordan, Idealist Consulting on the phone. (The first one is here ). I'm focusing on the campaigns function and so I'm on the hunt for some stellars examples and tips. Leave comments). Just so happens he's doing an NTEN Webinar tommorrow and it probably isn't too late to sign up.

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OCTOBER 24, 2014

The idea was that if they knew each other’s knowledge and skill related to the project, it can help everyone can be more effective in delivering the social media training because one person or team doesn’t need to know everything.

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APRIL 6, 2010

Saturday, April 10th: At 1:30, I'll be doing a panel with colleagues Jordan Viator, Carie Lewis, and David Neff called " The Real Housewives of Social Media." I'll be talking about some kitchen measuring tools like funnels and metrics. Here's an interview with did with Holly Ross about the session.

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APRIL 30, 2008

Hat Tip Jordan V at Convio ) He has dogbook on his profile featuring his yellow lab, Tana. Finally, Beth Finke, a staffer at Easter Seals, writes the Safe and Sound Blog (Congrats on your award !) (Hat

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JANUARY 12, 2010

Well, I'm rolling up my sleeves as Jordan V would say and as Sean Power suggests will be writing a post to share insights about what I've learned from today's action learning experiment about real time tracking, analytics, metrics, and reflection. I got to teach two back to back sessions of the class and it was exhilarating.

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MARCH 2, 2011

The final exercise was a competition where each in-country team had to create a campaign, give a brief presentation, and got feedback from judges (IIE staff). The Jordan Team won! Next, the concept of a networked campaign was introduced as was the timeline and action plan.

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APRIL 9, 2013

Sharon Sobol Jordan, the president and executive director of the Centers for Families and Children , says “I was hesitant at first but I am amazed at how it has helped me process and crystallize ideas, as well as challenged me to stay current and engaged in the ongoing public conversation that surrounds our work.”

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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. In addition to Zoetica, implementation partners include SMEX Beirut , TechSoup Global , and Meedan directly, plus a network of in-country teams and training partners.

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JANUARY 5, 2012

I’ve been tasked with designing and facilitating a session for trainers during our two-day e-Mediat networked nonprofit and social media bootcamps in Jordan and Morocco. The training for the NGOs that have completed the 5 workshops from the different countries over the past year.

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AUGUST 17, 2009

Jordan Viator invited me to be a panelist on this panel and I agreed because David Neff is a fellow panelist and I bet Jordan will make him wear an apron! And like last year's ROI Poetry Slam , our session will be interactive, thought-provoking, and dare I say, fun! In addition, there's be lots of learning shared freely.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Jordan Viator invited me to be a panelist on this panel and I agreed because David Neff is a fellow panelist and I bet Jordan will make him wear an apron! And like last year's ROI Poetry Slam , our session will be interactive, thought-provoking, and dare I say, fun! In addition, there's be lots of learning shared freely.

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JANUARY 20, 2009

Jordan Viator. Michelle Murrain. is an open source software guru who writes the some best posts on that topic. is Vice President of Operations of C3: Colorectal Cancer Coalition and was one of the first nonprofit technology bloggers. writes for the Convio Connection Cafe Blog. Deborah Finn. is the woman behind the hilarious lolnptech spoof.

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JUNE 1, 2009

Here's a nice before the event write up from Jordan over at the Convio Blog based on a conversation with Renee Alexander, Operation Smile's Social Media Stragetist. Chris Pirillo was there and at one point got up and offered to do silly stunts if we donated money to 140 Smiles. I have it on video). I'll look forward to hearing a report.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

It’s a lot of food for thought … First a few points from my professional social media and trainer colleagues in the Middle East: Khaled Elamad , a social media strategist I met while in Jordan, stress the importance of having empathy for other people’s point of view and that we need to reach to people beyond our own bubble. Many (..)

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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. For example,we agreed that we could quote those who are tweeting and have open accounts, but our tweets would not attribute quotes.

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JANUARY 11, 2009

Christina Jordan. Beth Alexander. Beth Jackson Bates. Beth Kanter. Bill Snyder. Britt Bravo. Bruce Brown. Caren Levine. Carol Lewis. Carol McCreary. Cheryl Hanback. Christina Arnold. Christine Egger. Christine Martell. Corey Pudhordsky. Corey Pudhorodsky. Craig Cunningham. Danielle Brigida. Darlene Charneco. David Krumlauf. David Wilcox.

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APRIL 29, 2008

Twitter Focus Group: Jordan V from Convio calls Twitter an unofficial focus group! Inspiration and Ideas: Paul Sanchez, like Holly, uses Twitter for quick polls, but also uses it as a source for inspiration. Paul notes, "I find a lot of ideas in the streams of conversation."

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AUGUST 4, 2008

Jordan Viator, YouTube on a ShoeString and ask the expert at NTEN with Ramya Raghaven from YouTube. " Peter Deitz does a nonprofit riff on a report called " Strategy of Giving " originally written for business people to invest their businesses. Rapid Donor Cultivation white paper from Common Knowledge. Digidave of Spot.Us

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AUGUST 3, 2008

ConnectionCafe : Connection Cafe has a quite a few Gen Y bloggers - Taylor Shanklin, Misty McLaughlin, Brandy Reppy, Lacey Kruger and Jordan Viator. If I was working for a nonprofit that was doing a job search for a technologically savvy marketing person, I wouldn't even both posting a job description - I just hire her.

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APRIL 26, 2010

Jordan Viator had a guest post by the authors. . Last week when I was Society for New Communications Research conference, I ran into KD Paine , who shared a copy of an ebook by Shabbir Imber Safdar , author of the TruthyPR blog and Shayna Englin of Englin Consulting LLC entitled "Is Your Nonprofit Facebook Page Worth It?

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JANUARY 14, 2014

MT @atikaCNN Filming Syrian refugees crossing into Jordan safely – thanks @and_harper , @refugees + Jordan military pic.twitter.com/xMRJHR3xen. — For example, the UN Refugee Agency, encourages all field officers to tell the stories of the refugees they are working with as this recent tweet from Syria illustrates.

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JULY 6, 2009

Thanks Jordan S for working with us on this! I got a really nice surprise when Jordan from Pathable contacted me this week and asked if we’d be interested in them doing an analysis of the twitter activity like they had done previously for WordCamp. And there was another bonus we found later, see the twitter section. Hell yes!

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JULY 11, 2009

Alan Jordan posted the following : A constituency session comment re-iterated a line shared with me a long time ago from a concert hall manager in Concord, NH who passed away from cancer a few years back: the official moniker for 501(c)3s is not “non-profit,” but “not for profit.”

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MAY 11, 2009

Photo by James Jordan I'm actually in the clouds, flying to California on Virgin America using the (not free) wifi listening to Mark Pesce's keynote via Mike Seyfang delivered the other day at Connecting Up Australia the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Australia (see web site for details). I keynoted the conference last year.

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