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E-Mediat: Social Media Capacity Building for NGOs in the Arab World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This year during Ramadan, Tunisia Telecom launched an initiative to support 14 charity organizations. Tunisie Telecom learned about Esmaani thanks to their effective Facebook page and selected the organization based on the importance of their charity work in Tunisian society. I started work on the E-Mediat project over a year ago.

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E-Mediat: Day 2 – The Networked NGO in the Arab World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

His organization’s name, Shabakat , translates into the word “network.&#. Rami shared how his organization works in a transparent way, open sourcing its program materials and processes. They also work many different partners to spread the program so that his organization isn’t doing everything.

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The Power of Our Collective Professional Networks and Transdisciplinarity Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Once we mapped the network on the wall before our eyes, we reflected on the following questions: * What are the points of connection? You can do a whole network analysis which looks at organizations and people in specific geographic or social change area. What are the opportunities for reciprocity?

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What can you learn by visualizing your Twitter network?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Once you or your organization views the world with a networked mindset, then you need to visualize the network. It doesn’t happen overnight and it takes daily practice. One efficient technique is to spend five minutes of your day at the end reflecting. That’s social capital and it does have value.

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What’s Your Calling?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

At SXSW and facilitating a panel called A Global Discussion About Networked Nonprofits and Free Agents , I introduced myself with this photo of me and Lena, the master trainer from Yemen for the E-Mediat Project. His comment made me reflect over the past 32 years of working in the nonprofit sector.

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E-Mediat: Networked Capacity Building in the Middle East

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Provide digital infrastructure to the 150 – 250 organizations through a public-private partnership with Microsoft. Insight #1: Build Time for Getting To Know Each Other At The Beginning.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Once we mapped the network on the wall before our eyes, we reflected on the following questions: * What are the points of connection? Some observations from the discussion: 1.)

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