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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The conference in Morocco was a “tri-lingual event” and was translated into French, English, and Arabic, although the content and instructional design were identical to the event in Jordan. See the above video, created by team in Tunisia, which summarizes the program.) And, indeed we had journalists present.

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A Day Trip the Hague, Netherlands: International City of Peace and Justice

Nonprofit Tech for Good

An Instagram Photo and Video Essay. A video posted by Nonprofit Organizations (@nonprofitorgs) on Oct 17, 2016 at 6:13am PDT. A video posted by Nonprofit Organizations (@nonprofitorgs) on Oct 17, 2016 at 7:30am PDT. I have a soft spot for donkeys after seeing so many of them on a recent trip to Morocco. HagueDayTrip.

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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

The project is training 300 NGOs in Jordan , Lebanon , Tunisia , Morocco , and other Arab countries to become networked ngos and use social media for civil society goals. A true public/private partnership, the funding partners include Microsoft and craiglist Charitable Fund. (I’ll I’ll be Jordan and Morocco in March, 2011).

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E-Mediat Networking Conference at the Dead Sea, Jordan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” The 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. The program accomplished the following: 220 organizations participated. 12 training centers have been established.

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E-Mediat: Social Media and Digital Activism in the Arab World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The highlight of third day was a VIP Lunch with project sponsors, implementation team, and remote participation via skype from members of the In-Country teams in Jordan and Morocco. Widad El Hanafi, Country Director in Morocco gave an overview of the challenges faced by NGOS in her country and social media use.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. The Morocco Team blogged about two of the tools that were demoed, social mention and rowfeeder. They’ve simplified and focused on what they do best.

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Just three years ago, negotiators from around the world converged on Marrakesh, Morocco, to hash out a final deal. Stevie recorded a short video that was shown twice at plenary sessions of the diplomats in Marrakesh. Ten years ago, I was one of a handful of leaders who got together to create a first draft of a global treaty.