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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. Lina Aleryani , Team Leader from Yemen, offered this reflection on her workshop blog during “laptop time.&#.

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E-Mediat Day 3: Digital Activism

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4) Mary had a “laptops down&# rule and only allowed participants to be online during breaks. The Yemen Team has some additional reflections on their workshop blog. Even if you have a video with sub-titles, the speakers might be speaking too fast. Have participants summarize what they heard in their native language.

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How to Convert Your Nonprofit Website Visitor into a Donor

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Among the people she has supported in improving their reading skills: a veteran, a grandmother, a bus driver, and a mother who recently emigrated from Yemen. . Many of your visitors will find you on their mobile phone, not their laptop. Make sure your site is optimized for mobile. Make sure pages load quickly. I sure don’t!)

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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.

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

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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. The Train the Trainers also included “laptop time&# for participants to write reflections in their blog journals for the project.

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