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E-Mediat: Reflections from the Conference in Fez, Morocco

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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.) And, indeed we had journalists present.

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Bookshare.org.in (India)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I'll have a ton more to say about Indian languages over the next few days! Trusted partners in India (like NAB or affiliated organizations) provide the main support interface to people with print disabilities in India, including subscription payments (likely to be much lower in India), proof of disability and customer service.

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Spotlight on Social Media, Crowdsourced Translation, Egyptian Protests and Diplomacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Building a Global Library

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Tunisia is very interesting this week! I gave my talk here on Tuesday, entitled: Building a Global Library for People with Print Disabilities. It went well: many passionate and interesting people from the disabilities movement are here and we are definitely brainstorming ways to join our efforts.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As I’ve expanded my repertoire to train people on other topics (not just social media or measurement), I have learned how to create practice rubrics for other areas. People can’t be as focused on content when they been sitting longer than 10-20 minutes. I feel strongly that to keep audiences engaged, they have to be moving.

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E-Mediat Day 1: A Networked Mindset To Capacity Building

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It was very exciting to finally meet people on the In-Country Leadership Teams face-to-face. I was also impressed by the energy in a room with twenty people who have a networked mindset, leadership skills, and social media expertise. Interest in people. Points of connection included: -Training. Nerds, Geeks, and Hackers.

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Great reads from around the web on February 15th

Amy Sample Ward

" Registering people to vote, so long as you allow anyone to register for any party and do not advocate for specific voting actions, is not outside your 501c3 status. 13 Issue 1 (Winter/Spring 2012), “Language, Identity and Politics” and is re-published here with permission." Are You Ready?

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