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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 started work on the E-Mediat project over a year ago.

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The Power of Our Collective Professional Networks and Transdisciplinarity Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The idea was that if they knew each other’s knowledge and skill related to the project, it can help everyone can be more effective in delivering the social media training because one person or team doesn’t need to know everything.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. I created the above visual using wordle to represent our collective knowledge and skills. What are the opportunities for reciprocity? Points of connection included: -Training.

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E-Mediat: Networked Capacity Building in the Middle East

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The goal is to train over 150-250 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Yemen, Morocco, and other countries and help them put social media skills into practice. People can be connected in networks through their knowledge or skills or interests. We created a network map. The key to networks is connections and reciprocity.

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Alpha Motor’s EV designs look cool, but will they ever get made?

The Verge

Our real goal, again, is just creating cars we think people will love. So I was working on this project to just kind of change the narrative on what people know and think about the country of Yemen. And at that particular time, Alpha was trying to share their platform for causes just like the Yemen project that I was working on.

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