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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. Localized Content Delivery. We did a sessions on measurement, integrated content strategy, and content for blogs.

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Content Delivery Is Not Learning. On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Most of the social media tools and tag lines did translate, although there isn’t specific Arabic concept or phrase for “user-generated content.&#. The participants were intrigued by the concept of Free Agents and the teams from Jordan and Lebanon discussed Free Agents in their countries.

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The Power of Our Collective Professional Networks and Transdisciplinarity Learning

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It was a great learning experience from both a process and content perspective. It has been exactly a year since I have committed to practicing the methods from Luma Institute as part of improving my facilitation practice.

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10 Tips to Jumpstart Your Nonprofit Social Media Plan

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Author: Jordan Viator. Test your messages – use different messages and calls to action, track trends and iterate the most effective techniques. Measure – look at social activity data to learn who you are influencing, what is causing activity, what content is effective and what you can optimize.

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Some Reflections About Civil Society 2.0 and Why I’m Not On A Plane To Tunisia Right Now

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I am asking myself and colleagues who do networked NGO training and social media skill building outside the of US – the question about building resilient networks and how to incorporate non-violent techniques. [ here and here ]. We don’t have any answers, but we all feel that our work is all the important as is a conversation.

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Gear Up For Giving: Social Media Tutorial Series for Nonprofits

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Author: Jordan Viator. The Case Foundation is in the middle of a month-long series called “Gear Up for Giving” to provide social media tutorials to help nonprofits and their supporters understand how to use key tools and techniques to create awareness, catalyze civic action and cultivate new supporters and donors for their causes.