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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

It is great to see the results of a lot of hard work by everyone involved and looking forward to 2012 which will be an intensive year of designing, delivering, and reflecting on capacity building in networked approaches and social media skills outside of the US. I started work on the E-Mediat project over a year ago.

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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. Lina Aleryani , Team Leader from Yemen, offered this reflection on her workshop blog during “laptop time.&#.

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What can you learn by visualizing your Twitter network?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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The Power of Our Collective Professional Networks and Transdisciplinarity Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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E-Mediat Day 3: Digital Activism

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

To reflect on how these modules might be used in their own trainings. The Yemen Team has some additional reflections on their workshop blog. The session provided strategy theory and a simulation exercise based on creating a digital activism campaign for the Story of Electronics film (that now has Arabic sub-titles ).

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What’s Your Calling?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

At SXSW and facilitating a panel called A Global Discussion About Networked Nonprofits and Free Agents , I introduced myself with this photo of me and Lena, the master trainer from Yemen for the E-Mediat Project. His comment made me reflect over the past 32 years of working in the nonprofit sector.

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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. The debriefing question encouraged us to reflect on points of connection and reciprocity. The key to networks is connections and reciprocity. What opportunities for reciprocity?

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