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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We spent Day 2 of the E-Mediat Train the Trainer sessions on “ Translating The Networked NGO in the Arab World.&# To localize Networked Nonprofit concepts to an Arab NGO context, as appropriate, for improved project outcomes. Transparency and “ Arab NGOs” can they go together?

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SXSW Reflection: Using Social Media to Facilitate A Global Back Channel at a Panel Session

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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 suspect I’m not alone. The session was live tweeted using the #netnon hashtag , but I wanted to go beyond simple live tweeting or re-tweeting.

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Supporting Nonprofit Tech Educators Across the Globe

Tech Soup

At each event, we're helping to build and sustain a self-supporting community of practice for tech-minded nonprofit staffers. Victoria, British Columbia: NGO Ho Ho: A Holiday Party for Victoria's Nonprofits. Beirut, Lebanon: Elevate Startup Sprint. Beirut, Lebanon: Elevate Startup Sprint. Friday, December 2, 2016.

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[VIDEO] Using WhatsApp to Increase Engagement with Multicultural Communities

Bloomerang

So always keep that in mind. This other one, I found that an NGO in Lebanon was doing WhatsApp surveys with Syrian refugees to see what had been their experience in the country because the refugees, most of them, 80% of them had a phone but they didn’t have a computer, they didn’t have anything else. ” Right?