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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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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. 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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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. This gave me an excuse to look at different types of peer learning exercises and facilitation techniques. Allan Gunn from Aspiration and his legendary facilitation skills and knowledge.

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

NTEN

Rob Jordan, Idealist Consulting. are facilitated with on-premise solutions and which of those business processes could be facilitated within the cloud. Moreover, many of these cloud computing solutions offer discounts or are entirely gifted to 501 c3’s (i.e. First, conduct an ad hoc technological assessment.

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Thank You for the Best Birthday Ever!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But they also asked to share how I've impacted their work , and by pointing that out has been created a very meaningful birthday gift. I noticed dozens of these connections and facilitated a few. I met Spencer Brodsky last December when he was doing a fundraiser campaign for his project in Rwanda. And connected with Mark Horvath.

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

NTEN

Rob Jordan, Idealist Consulting. are facilitated with on-premise solutions and which of those business processes could be facilitated within the cloud. Moreover, many of these cloud computing solutions offer discounts or are entirely gifted to 501 c3’s (i.e. First, conduct an ad hoc technological assessment.

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Why You Should Never Feel Bad About Asking Someone To Give

Bloomerang

Do you get heart palpitations when you pick up the phone to make an ask for a philanthropic gift? Whenever someone I know expresses resistance to asking for a philanthropic gift, I revisit 5 Ways Giving Is Good for You on the Greater Good Science Center blog. When we give, we don’t only help the immediate recipient of our gift.

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