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E-Mediat Networking Conference at the Dead Sea, Jordan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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E-Mediat: Social Media Capacity Building for NGOs in the Arab World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The final phase is to design and facilitate in-country bootcamps with participants. (I’ll I started work on the E-Mediat project over a year ago. It is sponsored by MEPI, US Department of State’s Middle East Partnership Initiative and as part of Civil Society 2.0. I’ll be Jordan and Morocco in March, 2011).

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

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To localize Networked Nonprofit concepts to an Arab NGO context, as appropriate, for improved project outcomes. 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. lack of time and not seeing the value of social media.

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

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The program is managed by the Institute of International Education (IIE), and implemented with a coalition of leading new media experts and local and international partners from the public and private sectors. E-Mediat is working with more than 220 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, and Yemen.

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E-Mediat Day 3: Digital Activism

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Day 3 of the Train the Trainers session was devoted to Digital Activism and facilitated by Mary Joyce. The learning objectives: To provide participants with a formula for training digital campaign strategy. Localize and make it relevant. The Yemen Team has some additional reflections on their workshop blog.

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E-Mediat: Networked Capacity Building in the Middle East

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The goal is to train over 150-250 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Yemen, Morocco, and other countries and help them put social media skills into practice. Establish local networks of individuals and organizations using social media to help build stronger organizations and more participatory societies.

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