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Meeting the Geeks of Arabia at N2Vlabs Talks in Amman, Jordan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

E-Mediat is working with more than 220 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, and Yemen. I’m looking out my hotel window at the Dead Sea in Jordan. He founded Shabakat Al Ordon , the first networked nonprofit that I discovered in the Middle East and that provides youth ICT training 300 communities in Jordan.

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How Nonprofit Leaders Make Time for Social Media and Other Secrets to Adoption

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session about leadership and social media as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits. ” Always Be Learning.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. We discussed ways to initiate organizational change to be more open to social media adoption in the context of training and coaching.

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How to: Getting Your Head (and Org) into the Clouds

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Rob Jordan, Idealist Consulting. are facilitated with on-premise solutions and which of those business processes could be facilitated within the cloud. How easy is the solution to adopt/learn? First, conduct an ad hoc technological assessment. Select which elements of your business process (i.e. of the solution?

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How to: Getting Your Head (and Org) into the Clouds

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Rob Jordan, Idealist Consulting. are facilitated with on-premise solutions and which of those business processes could be facilitated within the cloud. How easy is the solution to adopt/learn? First, conduct an ad hoc technological assessment. Select which elements of your business process (i.e. of the solution?

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Cloud Computing 101: What You Need to Know

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Rem Hoffmann, Exponent Partners , and Rob Jordan, Idealist Consulting. As a result, your overall cost for adopting a system is reduced. For example, if you have determined that you need a CRM solution, you need to understand how you are going to facilitate your business processes through the system. Access anywhere in the world.

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Why You Should Never Feel Bad About Asking Someone To Give

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2006 study by Jorge Moll, Jordan Grafman and colleagues at the National Institutes of Health : After MRI brain scanning of volunteers as they were asked to think about a scenario involving either donating a sum of money to charity or keeping it for themselves, researchers found giving won out. Giving will protect you your whole life long.”

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