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

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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. Quiet Reflection: Socoot. See the above video, created by team in Tunisia, which summarizes the program.)

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Happy, Focused, and Productive: There Is An App for That!

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One of my colleagues, Nada Hamzeh , a nonprofit capacity building consultant from Lebanon, tagged me when sharing this striking image that depicts how can easily develop a behavior addiction to our mobile phones. And that causes stress unless we reflect and analyze how we are actually using our time. Image by Ayyamsyria.

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The Power of Our Collective Professional Networks and Transdisciplinarity Learning

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Once we mapped the network on the wall before our eyes, we reflected on the following questions: * What are the points of connection? However, when we map our networks, there may be adjacent practices and professionals who can stimulate our own learning, give us a new view with which to reflect upon our own work.

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

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A good technique is to have each panelist offer a five minute “talk from the heart&# presentation sharing their point of view on the topic. 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.

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

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The Team from Tunisia identified Sawty as an example of a networked nonprofit in Tunisia, while the Lebanon Team pointed to Nasawiya. Lina Aleryani , Team Leader from Yemen, offered this reflection on her workshop blog during “laptop time.&#. We also covered some of the basic techniques for listening and engaging.

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What can you learn by visualizing your Twitter network?

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It doesn’t happen overnight and it takes daily practice. One efficient technique is to spend five minutes of your day at the end reflecting. What if you used that five minutes of reflection, to visualize and understand your network?

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E-Mediat Day 3: Digital Activism

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To reflect on how these modules might be used in their own trainings. Nada, In-Country Team Leader for Lebanon. It was particularly rewarding to see instructional techniques (the social media game ) that I had developed and been using since 2007 used by someone else. Mary did a fabulous job! It is important to add this framing.