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

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The conference in Morocco was a “tri-lingual event” and was translated into French, English, and Arabic, although the content and instructional design were identical to the event in Jordan. Chema Gargouri, In Country Director, Tunisia being interviewed by the local radio station in Fez, Morocco.

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

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The project is training 300 NGOs in Jordan , Lebanon , Tunisia , Morocco , and other Arab countries to become networked ngos and use social media for civil society goals. A true public/private partnership, the funding partners include Microsoft and craiglist Charitable Fund. I’ll be Jordan and Morocco in March, 2011).

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

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E-Mediat is working with more than 220 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, and Yemen. It is also fun to re-mix presentations for an audience outside of the US. Rami Al-Karmi, N2V Lab. I’m looking out my hotel window at the Dead Sea in Jordan.

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

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The Morocco Team discussed how Youth Without Borders is a networked network and the Yemen Team pointed out how the Youth Leadership Development Foundation is one as well. The Morocco Team blogged about two of the tools that were demoed, social mention and rowfeeder. They’ve simplified and focused on what they do best.

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What can you learn by visualizing your Twitter network?

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While they are fun (and addicting), they are most useful if you set aside some time to not only generate the visual, but think about what does it mean for your current practice.

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

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It’s more fun to teach this way and more fun to learn this. In a peer learning situation, people may make stronger connections with others and develop working relationships that may go beyond the learning experience. That’s the theory at least.

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In Search of Hope: The Global Diaries of Mariane Pearl

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Cambodia: Somaly Mam Acting for Women in Distressing Situations (AFESIP) Canada: Sheila Watt-Cloutier The Center for Environmental Law Colombia: Mayerly Sanchez World Vision Hong Kong: Anson Chan Hong Kong Committee for UNICEF Liberia: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf The Liberian Education Trust (LET) Mexico: Lydia Cacho Ciamcancun New York: Dr. Angela Diaz (..)