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A Guide to Facebook Activism

The digital world moves fast. Digiactive, a five-month-old site devoted to digital activism, has released its first guide, A DigiActive Introduction to Facebook Activism.

SMEx This Month: We've Broadened Our Reach!

This month, we’re spreading social media awareness, not only in Beirut but in other areas as well. More seminars will take place during July as we’ve added more substance and suggestions to our tutorials--including ideas acquired from the 2008 Global Voices Summit--that we're eager to share. Visit our blog to read the whole story.

Green Tech in Lebanon: solar car built by engineering students

Though Lebanon sits in a region with vast oil resources, the country itself has no petroleum deposits on its own territory.  The depressed economic situation, massive debt, and poor energy management lead to frequent (in most places daily) electricity outages.  At my house, in the heart of Beirut, we have had rotating daily outages of at least 3-hours every single day for the past few years.  During times of political trouble, high energy consumption, or oil shortages, the outages can be longer and/or more frequent.  Outside of the municipality of Beirut, the situation i

24 June: An Instructive Seminar for CRS' Staff

Our second training seminar took place on 24 June at the offices of Catholic Relief Services in Sodeco, Beirut. The tutorial was attended by a dozen or so members of the CRS staff and covered a selection of topics on Web 2.0. We launched the workshop by familiarizing the audience with the concept of Web 2.0 and the different tools that assist in promoting and communicating developmental work through social media.

cell phones and poverty

Technology, mobile technology, and cell phones could be powerful forces for social change and economic development, as illustrated through a recent article of the NY Times.

 

Our Pilot Workshop Is a Success!

At last! After a month of laying the groundwork and making preparations, we hosted our first Social Media pilot workshop, and it was a great success. 

Explanatory video: social networks for social change

A nice and basic video explaining some social networks used for social change projects.

 

Original location: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdUnuc-Xj7Y

SMEx Invitation to Civil Society

Dear NGO Leader:

On behalf of the newly formed Social Media Exchange, we would like to invite you to an introductory seminar on social media for positive social change. The seminar is being hosted in collaboration with the new Beirut–based incubator for social entrepreneurship, RootSpace.

A rising tide - tech for social change

Social media is growing and becoming a dominant force in tech-savvy (or at least tech-enabled) communities around the world.

However, most innovation in the social media environment has little, if anything, to do with social change. Witness the massive supply of useless "widgets" and applications in social networking sites like Facebook, most of the stuff that goes up onto YouTube, or networked games that are just as bad as the old non-networked ones.

What is Web 2.0?

Web 2.0, a buzzword coined in 2004, describes an evolution in web technologies and usage that places an emphasis on producing and sharing content rather than just consuming it. It falls into the larger category of social media, also called participatory media, and is implemented not only with computers and the Internet but using a wide range of devices, including digital cameras, audio and video recorders, and mobile phones.

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