Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2013

With this three-part blog series on our expansion of the proven Bookshare model internationally, we’d like to give you a glimpse into the ways in which Benetech provides people with disabilities around the world equal access to knowledge. The second blog post looked at our growing Bookshare Spanish-language program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. Nada, In-Country Team Leader for Lebanon. She created templates that the trainers could used to create cards in Arabic language. 1.) Simplify, simplify, simplify.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

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. See the above video, created by team in Tunisia, which summarizes the program.) Workshop Handouts work in Arabic and French.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2011

Listening, responding, and being flexibly are qualities that I observed being modeled throughout the three days of planning from project leaders – an important networked leadership skill. To augment efforts to increase the amount of Arabic-language content online by making it easier to use and read Arabic online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. To model and practice integrating the use of social media tools and networked approaches to document, deliver, and share learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

The panelists included: Danielle Brigida of the National Wildlife Federation (NWF), Mark Horvath of Invisible People and Jessica Dheere , of Social Media Exchange Beirut in Lebanon. I also pinged people in my network from different countries. My takeaways: 1. That means I need a T.V.

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