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

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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. In Jordan, we did the Debka, a Lebanese dance. Group Photo with Certificates. Showcase Panel. Localized Content Delivery.

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NTEN Member Round-Up: You're Doing NPTech Right!

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Participate in the 2009 Getting Attention Nonprofit Tagline Awards voting to see the 60 tag line finalists and get both inspired and thinking strategically about your own tag line. Jordan Viator ( Convio ) weighs in: Seth Godin took nonprofits to task on their (as he argued) lack of penetration into the social media sphere.

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

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Rob Jordan, Idealist Consulting. Keep in mind that cloud computing has been around a long time -- it was not until it got a fun name like cloud computing that people started paying attention. As was mentioned above, QuickBooks has a wonderful system that makes conversion from QuickBooks offline to QuickBooks online a breeze.

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

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Rob Jordan, Idealist Consulting. Keep in mind that cloud computing has been around a long time -- it was not until it got a fun name like cloud computing that people started paying attention. As was mentioned above, QuickBooks has a wonderful system that makes conversion from QuickBooks offline to QuickBooks online a breeze.

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It shows that attention is the sharpest during the first 10 minutes of the lectures, then plummets, and then gradually goes back up but not to the same level. That means talking non-stop for more than 10 minutes, people start to tune out. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them.

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Is Twitter for Old Folks? And other gems from TWTRCON

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Here's a nice before the event write up from Jordan over at the Convio Blog based on a conversation with Renee Alexander, Operation Smile's Social Media Stragetist. It's hard to get people's attention to talk about a charity at a cocktail party, especially in a dark, crowded, and noisey room. I have it on video).

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Active, Advanced or Averse - Nonprofit Change & Social Media

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Author: Jordan Viator. Seth Godin wrote an interesting blog post yesterday entitled “ The problem with non ” that has definitely sparked a bit of conversation. Remember, this is a free tool, one that people use to focus attention and galvanize action. None of them are non-profits. Not one as far as I can tell.