Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2013

After intensive work by our Bookshare team, last June we released 100 titles in Arabic , making the Bookshare Arabic Collection the world’s largest collection of accessible Arabic ebooks! I would like to especially thank Noa Ronkin, Kristina Pappas and Robin Seaman for their extensive work in developing this three-part blog series.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

I started work on the E-Mediat project over a year ago. 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

Each person on your team needs an education plan that becomes part of their ongoing performance evaluation, including expectations of work changes and improvement after their training. However, while success can be credited to hard work, great staff, and good training, failure can’t be blamed on bad training alone.

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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. This tool, which works with Google Calendar, let’s you export your calendar information to a spreadsheet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2011

In order to do this, they need to work with free agents, hyper-connected individuals who are passionate about social change, but don’t work within institutional walls. We will have a simultaneous tweet-up taking place in Beirut, Lebanon and connect with them on Twitter using the hashtag #netnon.

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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. My colleague, Rami Al-Karmi, who served as the social media specialist for the Jordan e-Mediat team and works for N2V , invited me to do a mini-workshop at the N2Vlabs Talks series and met the fellows in Amman before coming to the Dead Sea.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 23, 2011

That's just one of the fascinating drops of knowledge in the "2011 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study" " Twitter Blog: #numbers – "Five years ago this week, a small team of people started working on a prototype of the service that we now know as Twitter. On March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey (@jack) sent the first Tweet.

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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. Workshop Handouts work in Arabic and French. This conference was designed as an interactive, networking event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Today, I’m headed to Beirut, Lebanon for the E-Mediat project, a multi-stakeholder capacity building project for NGOS and Social Media in the Middle East. I have the honor of co-training with some of the best folks doing work in this part of the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Refugee Girls in Lebanon. How #MyGivingStory Works. What are some examples of powerful storytelling you’ve seen in the social good community? Global Giving: Syrian Refugee Crisis. Alaskan Native Group Tells Stories on X-Box. Puppies on Tinder. Students on Ice. Momsrising. Mark Horvath Invisible People.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

When we apply a network mindset to the way we work – whether as an individual or as part of a network strategy, we believe that value is created through our connections, interactions and building relationships. This has been the most important lesson for me in shifting the way I work to a more networked approach.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Victoria, British Columbia: Collaborate Effectively and Develop Your Work Flow. Beirut, Lebanon: Writing Workshops: Monthly. Beirut, Lebanon: Writing Workshops: Monthly. Hamra, Lebanon: صورة غب الطلب. Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania: TechNow 2015 Conference. Central and South America. Tuesday, October 13, 2015.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2013

As a nonprofit example, Ilie offered the 6-word story of an organization that helps the visually impaired: "Blind graduate works for National Bank." Emotions, like hope or humor, work because they draw viewers into the story and make them feel invested in the outcome and your organization. Beirut, Lebanon: NetSquared Beirut.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2011

I have the honor of co-training with some of the best folks doing work in this part of the world. (Here’s the posts from Day 1 and Day 2 ). Nada, In-Country Team Leader for Lebanon. The morning session focused on the building blocks of strategy – SMART objectives, audience identification, and messaging.

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Tech Soup

JULY 31, 2015

Washington, DC: DC Action Work Night! Beirut, Lebanon: Creative Writing Workshops and Programs. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night (weekly). New York, New York: Dog Days of Summer 501 Tech NYC Happy Hour. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Bagels and Bytes — Allegheny. Thursday, August 6, 2015.

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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. In some cases, partners will not have met face-to-face before they work together. Insight #1: Build Time for Getting To Know Each Other At The Beginning.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 14, 2015

If you're like me, then you swore that this year, you're finally going to learn to use technology to make yourself more productive at work. Beirut, Lebanon: SkillPill: TV Presenting. I bet you made all sorts of grand New Year's resolutions for 2015. Unless you're Superman, you're probably already struggling.

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Tech Soup

MAY 6, 2016

Within the nonprofit sector, visualizing data in a compelling way allows users to increase impact and awareness around the work that they do. SMEX, also known as Social Media Exchange, is a nonprofit based in Lebanon that compiles an Arab digital rights dataset. Bringing data to life, giving it context and meaning, is crucial.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2015

Kansas City, Missouri: What Works In Social Media and Email Marketing for Nonprofits. Beirut, Lebanon: Start-up Ideation Meets Design by Bootcamp During BDW. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Maximizing Your Nonprofit AdWords. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Design for the Non-Designer | MCN Lunchtime Communications Group. Tuesday, June 16, 2015.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

I have the honor of co-training with some of the best folks doing work in this part of the world. We have a lot to learn about working this way from NGOs and capacity builders in the Arab world. Working with NGOs. Passion for work. This first day’s three learning objectives: 1. Nerds, Geeks, and Hackers. Networking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

The panelists included: Danielle Brigida of the National Wildlife Federation (NWF), Mark Horvath of Invisible People and Jessica Dheere , of Social Media Exchange Beirut in Lebanon. The session was live tweeted using the #netnon hashtag , but I wanted to go beyond simple live tweeting or re-tweeting.

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DipJar

APRIL 19, 2021

Unless the right people know about, learn about, or feel good about your work, you won’t have the people to work with or the funding to serve them. In major gift work, it’s really the person’s interest that counts the most. This year more than ever, nonprofits will struggle to secure funding, and for many, even clients.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 15, 2021

Chances are, you’re not starting work with a nonprofit with that level of naivete, but you do want to make a meaningful difference for a cause you care about. Nonprofit work is easy. Right along with small and inefficient, somehow people have an idea that nonprofit work is easy. Let’s dive in! Are there nonprofits like this?

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Achieve

DECEMBER 16, 2021

You can also meet the challenges of day-to-day work with content literally right at your fingertips. . Working in the nonprofit sector is increasingly seen as a viable career path. . They know lots of others who do your same work. Work rooms engage people on a smaller scale. . Academic Classes. Instant polls and quizzes.

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Achieve

JUNE 7, 2021

Then there’s back-office work, including gifts processing, prospect research, and record keeping—and the computer skills to support it all. Getting a comprehensive view of your nonprofit’s fundraising will make them more effective with donors and increase their ability to work with fundraising staff. crowdfunding, and much more.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

It looks like it’s working. And this also led me to work with a lot of social projects because it happens a lot of times the same, right? I work mainly with nonprofits and social enterprises that want to have a bigger impact, that wants to increase their audiences, and that want to interact with diverse communities.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Interruption "works to challenge the dominant narrative or jar the normal way of seeing things. Education often does deeper work, "transforming people's perceptions over time by gradually shifting the dominant narrative and … bringing us to new answers." Interruption. Please visit the site to view this video).

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Interruption "works to challenge the dominant narrative or jar the normal way of seeing things. Education often does deeper work, "transforming people's perceptions over time by gradually shifting the dominant narrative and … bringing us to new answers." Interruption. Please visit the site to view this video).

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

The Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) works to protect the rights and improve the lives of children in the Middle East through aid, empowerment and education. Can you tell us a little bit about how you all got started and more about the work you do? This year they're celebrating 30 years of serving the region.

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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. I work as a trainer and capacity builder for nonprofits and technology and more lately social media and networked approaches. This is a common experience when you attempt to facilitate global presentations, discussions or peer groups.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 19, 2009

It is vital to the work of human rights investigations, and it serves many purposes. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2013

We are working with refugees on the ground in Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq. How is it working for you? The fundraising objective is to raise revenue for our Syrian Children’s Relief Fund in order to support our responses to ongoing and urgent needs as a result of the conflict. Even small donations can make a difference.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2006

How do you balance working for social change, with the work of being a mom? Lisa Russ, the Associate Director of the Movement Strategy Center, shares the joys and challenges of being a new mom working for social change. How do you balance your work at the Movement Strategy Center with the work of being a mom?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 18, 2007

Today they announced that through their advocacy work, " Governor Blagojevich has issued a Proclamation honoring the Founders of La Leche League and declaring July 16-23rd La Leche League International Week!" According to the article, " The fastest-growing population in adult corrections is the female population."

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