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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

My role over the past year been in the areas of: program design, design and delivery of a train the trainers intensive workshop in-country last March (see posts #1 , #2 , #3 ; #4 ); and develop and support the target NGO curriculum (intensive strategic and skills based curriculum). I started work on the E-Mediat project over a year ago.

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New Guide: How To Engage Your Supporters with Social Listening

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The first and most important step is for organizations to put on their listening ears and monitor conversations, get feedback, and continuously improve. Whether the debate surrounds a keyword, organization or issue, understanding the dialogue can help you engage the people driving the conversation. Your People Are Talking.

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The Power of Our Collective Professional Networks and Transdisciplinarity Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. There are two different lens to think about network mapping. Diversity correlates with innovation!

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How to Convert Your Nonprofit Website Visitor into a Donor

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Just like I have visited retail sites and impulsively purchased something that caught my interest, I have donated to organizations I knew very little about just by visiting their website. Because the site convinced me that the organization was working to solve an urgent problem and that my gift would make a meaningful difference.

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

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His organization’s name, Shabakat , translates into the word “network.&#. Shabakat Al Ordon trains young people in technical, professional and facilitation skills who then go out and create programs to train people in their communities. They’ve simplified and focused on what they do best.

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E-Mediat Networking Conference at the Dead Sea, Jordan

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I have created the design and delivered an intensive Train the Trainers session in Beirut almost a year ago for master trainers and their teams from Jordan, Yemen, Lebanon, Morocco, and Tunisia. I also developed the curriculum for the 15 workshops that were localized and delivered by the in-country trainers to over 220 NGOs over 9-month period.

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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. He described the method as an alternative to technology lab classroom skills-based trainings.

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