Tag Archives: Training

Get a Job! Advance Your Career with Linked In

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SMEX is hosting a workshop Saturday, March 20, from 9 am to 1 pm, for go-getters looking to expand their job opportunities. Marie Jo Roepke will lead the workshop, which will include best practices for using social networks for career development as well as some good old-fashioned tips for presenting yourself professionally. RSVP as soon [...]

Photography Workshop With Georges Haddad

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On the 26th, 27th and the 28th of June 2009, SMEX organized the Digital Photography Workshop, facilitated by Georges Haddad. George Haddad explaining to the participants basic photography skills on Saturday. The program included basic photography techniques, followed by a photoshoot where the participants applied the techniques assimilated, then the group got together again to check the pictures, [...]

Well, What Do You Think? Part I

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I finally got around to drafting a somewhat coherent course overview today. I would really rather be writing a post about translation, since that seems to be a hot topic this week, but I can’t do it justice just yet. So in lieu of our thoughts on important young players like yamli.com and meedan.net, here’s [...]

Jordan, Egypt, and Lebanon, Oh My! Digital and Social Media Training in the Arab World

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We can’t keep up. It seems like every time we open our inbox, another digital media training is taking place in the Arab world, in Jordan or Egypt (update May 19: we learned about another training in Egypt from ifikra)—or, of course, at the end of this month in Lebanon, as we initiate our own [...]

Opportunities: Kiva, Online Media Creativity Workshop, OTI

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Often SMEX comes across excellent opportunities for employment, fellowships, funding, and training. Some are local, others regional, and still others global. All of them have relate to using online media to build stronger communities. We hope to become an invaluable resource for Lebanon’s online community, so we want to you know that these positions, posts, [...]