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

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&# The workshop was based on the concepts in The Networked Nonprofit , including listening, transparency, simplicity, social culture, and working with free agents. The specific learning objectives: To understand the principles of “being” a Networked Nonprofit. They’ve simplified and focused on what they do best.

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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. The physical space is an open lab space, with lots of white boards, fast wifi, turkish coffee, and lots of geeks sitting on bean bag chairs or at tables with laptops on their laps coding and hacking on their projects. Rami Al-Karmi, N2V Lab.

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is a great opportunity to ponder the question: How to design and deliver learning experiences for nonprofits that connect, inspire, and engage? What are the best practices? Students get a minute to think about the question on their own and then answer it using a mobile device that sends their answers to Mazur’s laptop.

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E-Mediat Day 1: A Networked Mindset To Capacity Building

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In the morning, we did a team building exercise to better understand the network core, the in-country teams from Yemen, Morocco, Lebanon, Tunisia, and Jordan. This module started with an overview of the concepts in Chapter 2 of the Networked Nonprofit , Understanding Networks. Later in the day, we did a network mapping exercise.

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