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E-Mediat: Social Media Capacity Building for NGOs in the Arab World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Today, I had the pleasure of doing a little planning for March, 2012 bootcamps in country with the strategic social media adviser from Jordan, Rami Al-Karmi and Heather Ramsey at IIE in San Francisco as well as Craig Newmark and Barry Newstead from Wikimedia. Stay tuned … Video and Storytelling. View more documents from E-Mediat.

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E-Mediat Networking Conference at the Dead Sea, Jordan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I have created the design and delivered an intensive Train the Trainers session in Beirut almost a year ago for master trainers and their teams from Jordan, Yemen, Lebanon, Morocco, and Tunisia. I also developed the curriculum for the 15 workshops that were localized and delivered by the in-country trainers to over 220 NGOs over 9-month period.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

To localize Networked Nonprofit concepts to an Arab NGO context, as appropriate, for improved project outcomes. 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. lack of time and not seeing the value of social media.

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E-Mediat Day 3: Digital Activism

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Localize and make it relevant. Even if you have a video with sub-titles, the speakers might be speaking too fast. The Yemen Team has some additional reflections on their workshop blog. 1.) Simplify, simplify, simplify. Both language and what you’re teaching. It is important to add this framing.