SMEX: Channeling Advocacy

If you’re skilled at a certain topic, you can now write your own article and share it with the world. Since there is a lack of Arabic content on the internet, Google launched a service called Knol, in Arabic. It’s a free tool that makes it easy to create, collaborate on, and publish credible web content. Basically, it lets users ... Read More »

Last week we started our intensive workshops and our first was “Beginning Blogging” on Wednesday, 20th of August. Our first session is “Writing a Blogging Strategy” to help the attendants prepare a simple strategy and action plan for their organization or their own blog. I thought to practice the exercise myself and develop a strategy for our blog. Nothing complicated, ... Read More »

About 18 men and women of all ages began their Web 2.0 training today in Bint Jbeil. We started the day with a quick introduction to Web 2.0 and then got down to business and began blogging. Don’t forget to sign up for the upcoming intensive workshops in blogging, search engine optimization and digital fundraising, online collaboration, and Facebook activism. ... Read More »

في الأسبوع القادم، يبدأ فريق تبادل الانترنت الاجتماعي ورش الأعمال التطبيقية المكثفة، حيث ستتمكنون من العمل مع وسائل الإعلام الاجتماعية بطريقة استراتيجية لتأمين حاجات المنظمة التي تنتمون إليها. للانتساب، املئوا الاستمارة عبر العنوان التالي http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddjmntbp_103hgqp6tfmوأرسلوها إلى السيد محمد نجم عبر رقم الفاكس: +961 01 449 709 أو البريد الالكتروني على العنوان التالي: mohamad@therootspace.org. تنقسم ورش العمل إلى فئتين: وحدات تدريبية ... Read More »

Yesterday, the Social Media Exchange launched its series of intensive workshops at the RootSpace with Beginning Blogging taught by Moustafa Ghaddar. The day started with setting a plan for your blog and quickly moved to adding your first post. Introductions to using Google Analytics and blog directories like Technorati to “claim your blog” rounded out the day. Today the strategic ... Read More »

Next week, the Social Media Exchange is launching our hands-on guided intensive workshops, where you’ll get to work with social media strategically to meet your organization’s needs. Keep reading to learn more about the workshops or drop by to talk with us about your ideas and needs: We’re having an open house tomorrow, Thursday, August 14, from 6:30 to 9 ... Read More »

G for Google. Google is the leading search engine with about 70% market share. The name is derived from “Googol” which means 1 followed by a 100 zeros, and it was started in a Stanford University dorm as a project to provide better Internet search results. Today, Google offers many services and tools that can be used by non-profit organizations: ... Read More »

Twitter can be the perfect tool for communicating within an NGO or a communal context.Rather than using this micro-blogging service to merely update friends on personal matters, use it to send out security alerts in case of crisis.Ask for help and collaboration, or inform them about shared events, especially when you can forward updates to added members via SMS. Much ... Read More »

NGOs and online news sources can use social media to set up a communication plan on the internet. There are various approaches to developing an influential presence on the web and many tools to choose from. Social networking and micro-blogging programs like Twitter, Jaiku, Prownce, and Plurk allow people to blurt bits of conversation, sharing links and information swiftly. Take ... Read More »

Our good friend Magda Abu-Fadil, the director of the Journalism Training Program at the American University of Beirut, shares a link from startuparabia to a recently released report called “Egyptian Blogs: New Social Space.” The report, issued by the Egyptian Cabinet’s Information and Decision Support Center (IDSC), is available in Arabic. I’m wondering how the release of this kind of ... Read More »