E-Mediat 5th Workshop

We’ve finished workshop5 in 3 centers. It was one of the most interactive sessions as we celebrated the last workshop in the curriculum.

Sessions were focusing on how to use mobile tools in order to support your social strategy.  

Participants were very interactive as they share their experience in using mobile tools in their NGOs.  Most of them use mobile messages to raise awareness, fundraising & to connect with their audience.   

Tripoli participants use mobile messages to invite or announce their audience as most of them don't have access to internet.

Participants benefited a lot from this workshop, they learned that they should know their audience before sending the message & to know how to create  a  less characters with a content containing direct message depending on the cause they are working on.

Exxon Telecom was sponsoring this workshop & they offered 50 free SMSs for every participant NGO.

Workshop4 “Digital Photography & Video”

We finished the workshop 4 in 3 centers. It was one of the best interactive sessions. We added 2 modules to it: Photography & Movie making.
Photography session sponsored by Canon (A professional photographer gave the session & a canon camera was given for best photo in each center. History of photography, How to select a good camera, How to take a good photo, Common mistakes, Different shooting cases…..
Movie making By A volunteer director: Ihssan Azmeh gave the session & covered the following topics: Movies types, types of shots, before shooting, writing a script, storyboard, movie rules, equipment…..
The participants benefited a lot & applied what they have learned on the spot. They took photos & joined the trainer in doing the assessment of each photo to learn from others’ mistakes. They took videos shots with the FLIP,: interviews, activities, film with a storyboard conversations….& they commented on each others’ movies with the trainer who was showing them the good & the bad shots.
At the end they edited their movies with Flip & movie maker & started uploading them on their YouTube channels , their Facebook pages & E-Mediat page which made the participants from other centers excited for their workshops . We have received many requests from NGOs & individuals to attend the coming sessions in other centers. This interaction over the Facebook pages made the LBCI TV channel call us to host us in the nonprofit section of their famous program: Helwi Beirut on the 21st of October.
We also hosted a director & reporter from the news department of AL Jadeed TV to share his experience & give tips to participants on how to take the best shots from any activity or demonstration that best delivers the message in a short time & how to attract the audience to watch ur report & more…..

Encourage Exchange @ AUB October 26 & 27

I attended a training session at the American University of Beirut on security exchanging through information technology; the workshop was sponsored by The Development Research Center –Virginia.

 The training was presented by Mr. Alan Patterson, Global Security Instructor; He covered a lot of topics: Security Risks Analysis, Cyber Security topics, Censorship & Circumvention. I really learned many useful things in this training, I learned about the importance of security in protecting our information by using strong passwords not less than 12 characters & preferable to be alphanumeric and about updating anti-viruses on a daily basis and also that we should not use pirated version of software to avoid being insecure.

Do you know that our emails are like a postcard & everyone can read it? To avoid this, check URL addresses of emails you received.

Today we are less secure than before due to our using of social media networks and because of this I will share with you some resources which I have got from this training as we always do in E-mediat: sharing information, but keep in mind nothing is secure 100%.

To be more secured on Internet:
http://onorobot.org
http://trucrypt.org/
http://secunia.com,
http://isc.sans.edu,
http://us-cert.com
http://www.icanstalku.com
http://web.hbr.org/email/archive/dailystat.php?date=082410
http://www.citizenlab.org
http://www.tacticaltech.org

Photography Session presented by CANON @ IT Lebanon, Tripoli

Interesting photography session presented by canon, participants learned how & when to take a photo & the right way for holding a camera. They can now know what to ask for when buying a camera.

Najah Ahdab from Safadi Foundation won a digital camera from CANON during a competition to choose the best photo.

Participants’ Testimonies - Women in IT

Randa Yassir (SMART CENTER)

I participated in the E-mediat workshop & I benefited a lot from the things that I learned as this helped me to better present the efforts and achievements of our NGO.I liked the online safety training & how to keep our families safe online. This workshop helped me to know how to be active online, the same as the international NGOs. The workshop was very interactive as we were practicing& applying directly on the internet; this is what makes Emediat different from other social media workshops I attended, as now I am well qualified to use facebook & twitter.Thank you E-mediat; looking forward for more workshops that would benefit more NGOs.

Participants’ testimonies - Women in IT

Michel Daia (LECORVAW)All the workshops I attended were useful, especially how to use social media in promoting & advertising our programs & activities being a must for us as we don't have facebook & twitter accounts. Today's sessions have been very interesting especially the online safety as we have learned how to keep us safe online. Networking also is an important session as each NGO should have a network for more efficient work within society

Interview with Reem Dernaika (AZM & SAADA Foundation)

I was lucky to be selected in my association to participate in the series of the beneficial social media workshops from E-MEDIAT Program. As an NGO, we are interested in the social media & development of the internet & technology. What E-MEDIAT informed us is the strategy of using the social media which is a new skill that we couldn’t found elsewhere!!!.We learned how we can increase the nbr of our followers, how to communicate with them. Personally, I benefited a lot, I started communicating with people & experts working in the social media field. After applying the E-MEDIAT tools, our nbr of facebook fans increased from 10000 to 17000 persons which means 7000 persons in this short time & we’re hoping to get more fans & more followers on twitter. We started using social media tools to call for our event & recently, we organized a successful international festival for the 1st time in Tripoli. E-MEDIAT team helped us in using social media to let people participate .They watched the event on youtube & followed our tweets minutes by minutes on twitter & got latest updates from our facebook page;It was an interesting experience .We’r e thrilled to learn from the coming workshops & hoping to participate in the bootcamp & meet professionals & experts in this field & learn from them. In one word: our experience with E-MEDIAT is amazing!!!

Emedait workshop3: Social Networks (Facebook & Twitter )

In workshop3, participants will learn how to use Facebook and Twitter & link to their social media strategy plan.

- Facebook Strategies for NGOs
- Facebook Engagement & Twitter Strategies for NGOs

Some of Participants’ Views on Workshop2 @ Moltaka Al Nisai

Hoda Al Kara - Dar Al AmalToday's training was really impressive & demonstrated how the E-Mediat program is covering all the issues related. Online safety & privacy training is very important for the NGos to know how to deal when using social media. As Ngos, we were encouraged today to use social media & to keep our image safe.

Nadine Abdel khalek – Loubnani AssociationI attended the Microsoft online safety & privacy training which was really important & fruitful. Now I realized the difference between virus & spam & how to deal with dominant viruses. In addition to that, we learned how to keep our social media tools mainly the NGO facebook page safe & to keep our image & corporate branding &we went through the ethical things as well; if we know how to use the technology & know how to use a content, it can give positive impact to our work.
we got introduced to the new web 3.0, we discover that we have to apply a lot of applications to get more online marketing through the social media tools in addition to QR code which links you to the online & offline world.

Riad Jabber - YMCA
It was a very useful & successful training. I enjoyed it a lot & benefited from the information of today's session. Thank you Akram & Nada

Hanaa Chayya – IPW AssociationOne of the best training that I've ever attended. It answered all the questions that i had about online safety & privacy.

Nahi Jawad - ICSM (Islah Charitable & Social Movement)I know a lot of the internet but today i learned a lot of new things related to privacy & safety for our personal use & for our NGOs. I'd like to thank Microsoft & E-MEDIAT for giving us the opportunity to be aware & to learn how to deal with security problems that we might safe online & how to keep the positive image of our NGOs.
It was an Impressive Sessions, We feel more popular with Web and we Act , Engage and Network.

Workshop2 @ITLebanon-Tripoli –7&8 July

HTML

- Basics of HTML & create front page
- practicing on HTML (http://t.co/ZFfhHzg )
- Blogging on Word press

Web design- Web design depends on creativity
- learning how to choose colors of our website: http://t.co/HLfK8ZD
- Latest Website Templates, http://t.co/vTv9nSa

Online Safety & Privacy
-Importance of online safety to get out of panic: The internet is not dangerous it is a place to get info
-How to help our children to work online in a safety way
-Ways to help protect our computers: Backup, read privacy statements

Listening
Listening tools: google alerts, RSS, Twitter search, blog search, social mention & igoogle

Workshop 2 @ IT Lebanon - 7 & 8, July

Sessions of Workshop2:

-Listening, Security & Privacy

-How to improve existing WEB Presence

-Online Safety

Supplemental workshop with Ayman Itani @IT Lebanon Tripoli - June 29th

Supplemental Workshop with @Ayman Itani @ Al Moltaka Al Nisai

The E-Mediat Advisor Ayman Itani started a series of workshops in the 3 centers about the necessity of social media tools for NGOs: Facebook, twitter & blogger.....Ayman provided very important tips related to NGOs usage of social Media that he couldn't cover all the pre scheduled Agenda.He went over every single detail that helps the NGOs in promoting their activities , news & programs.The participants were very interested to know that social media (mainly Facebook ) is not only a place to share pictures & personal issues, it can be a platform for networking, marketing, fund raising, sharing & a place where there's freedom of speech & expressions.Even the advanced participants learned a lot from this workshop & Ayman advised to sit with them in small groups & discuss their online presence & the challenges they're facing to guide them & provide support.

A Participant’s Experience

Knowledge becomes a must in our daily life!

Social Media is rocking and is making a difference in many businesses around the world. Marketers consider it the most important Weapon to Face new edge requirements, that’s why I joined E-mediat for Social media Training. I realized how important is this training for my business and for my NGO’s Strategic planning. My business is growing better every day with my vision to networking & planning & using Social media tools.

The first workshop of E-mediat was very helpful to prioritize social media in all kind of business we are dealing it, Thanks E-mediat and special Thanks for Beth kanter. Finally, the message will not be well delivered without Good Messengers: Nada & Mona
Looking forward to the coming workshops!

Nahi Al Jawad
ICSM (Islah Charitable & Social Movement)

Participant comments on the first workshop

Shahrazad Shehab: Perfect training, we got introduced to things we neglected and seemed very important in social media. Thank you e-mediat and special special special thanks to Nada Hamzeh! and of course not to forget Mona Messlmany :). YOU GUYS ARE GREATTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!

Taha Baba: thank you all for ur time and for all the informations :D
may God bless u all :)


Chantal Al Akkary: It was a great workshop indeed, Thank you for all the effort :

Nahla Elmounir: i trust to you Nada Hamzeh to do something change... really

Mohammed Hourani: It was an excellent workshop which gave me a new concepts and ideas to start working on. Also i meet a lot of nice people from other NGOs and i like their passion to their work. Well done Nada and Mona

Wafa Youssef Naja: useful training, 10x E-Mediat (Lebanon), Nada and Mona

Nahi Aljawad: Mona , Nada ... Thanks for giving us opportunity to attend such Useful training you are a very good trainers .. cu

Riad Jaber: so nice training

Nahi Aljawad: SPECIAL training

Momitta Bayram: really it was funny and useful training

Sarwat Sami Melhem: very well workshop, it was nice day

1st workshop @ Women in IT (WIT) 30/5/2011

 NGOs participated in this workshop created their Networking plan, as most of them have a huge network especially with other NGOs, Communities, Donors, ...

Some of the NGO participants are still sitting in using social media while the others are walking & flying. They mentioned that today they knew the importance of being a networked NGO.

1st Workshop @ Al Moltaka Al Nisai-24 &25 May 2011

15 NGOs participated in the 1st workshop, This workshop is an overview of social media & provides a framework for creating a social media strategy plan, in addition of focusing in coaching NGOs on their plans. Participants were interested in the networking for non-profit session as they draw their networking map.

First Workshop to train NGOs on Social Media – IT Lebanon (Tripoli)-20 May 2011

It was a great experience to share the NGOs skills, knowledge & especially their fears of using social media.

NGOs who participated from Tripoli were: Safadi Foundation, Al Azem Wal Saadah, Al Rabat, Al Moosawat, Complete Personality Center, Taaheel Al Shalal, Lebanese Association for Support of scientific research, Maan Loubnan, Lebanese Consultant Center for Development, Jinan University, Al Nahda.

Only some of them use social media tools & most of them are still crawling online, they were interested to know the importance of networking between NGOs & then they prepared their own networking plan.

Training of Trainers New Media Training for NGOs on the Middle East & North Africa February 27-March 7, 2011 Beirut – Lebanon

It was a great experience that accumulation our knowledge & skills, we met experienced people who gave us advice and help us to know why we use social media & how to train NGOs to promote their programs & activities using social media tools.

About E-mediat

E-Mediat is a dynamic public-private partnership providing cutting-edge new media training to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) throughout the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

New Media program will provide basic digital infrastructure, specialized training, and an online learning community (OLC) to assist the organizations in their communications strategies and ultimately foster more pluralistic and participatory societies including women and youth. The training, coaching and mentoring opportunities offered through the New Media program will empower Participating Organizations (POs) with the knowledge, skills and support to use new media technology to tell their stories, build their membership and support bases, and connect to a community of peers around the world.

  
E-mediat program has been designed to accomplish the following objectives:

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I    Increase CSO/NGO knowledge, skills and access to use new media effectively

-        Improve communication between CSO/NGO leaders and constituents

-         Improve communication between CSO/NGOs and governments in the MENA region

IIE proposes to provide technical support and training on new media for civil society to 150 - 250 NGOs and CSOs across five countries: Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, UAE, Yemen & Tunisia.