This file briefly explains how to take advantage of the elevator speech and gives characteristics of the speech, including tips for preparation. Elevator speeches are short summaries used to quickly and simply define an organization or service.

This file gives the definition of smart phone applications (Mobile Apps) and how they can support civil society organizations (CSOs) in achieving their objectives and implementing programs.

This presentation focuses on Twitter as an outreach and marketing tool, providing tips for using TweetDeck dashboards, outreach search and keyword list searches. It provides examples of using Twitter to conduct outreach to journalists, politicians, online communities and other CSOs.

This presentation provides tips for improving your LinkedIn network and connections. It emphasizes the value of being selective in building a network, using clusters, groups and advanced search to find additional  contacts, and how to organize your networks with tags.

This resource provides examples of video sharing websites where civil society organizations (CSOs) can enhance their work by uploading video clips and sharing them with a large audience.

This file offers a list of 10 reasons that website visitors choose not to return to a website.

This file explains the use of innovative smart phone applications by civil society organizations (CSOs), such as to increase efficiency, provide information, data collection and surveys.

This guide provides an overview of the TwentyFeet website, which measures users’ popularity and influence on social networking sites, including Twitter, Facebook, bit.ly and others.

This file provides several tips for civil society organizations (CSOs) to write improved electronic articles.

This resource provides an overview of professional video shooting and basic steps that should be taken into account before starting to film.

This file briefly reviews stages of writing a radio script and types of radio scripts, as part of training for women and youth in political participation.

This document explains what a case study is and goes over how to analyze a case study. It lists the questions that one should ask when developing a case study.

This guide describes the basics of networking and alliances between non-governmental organizations. It focuses on network objectives, network types and stages of networking, and also includes a networking exercise.

This handout provides a checklist for optimizing the social media profile of CSO founders and management with profile setup tasks.

This presentation describes building blocks for optimizing an organization's social media presence related to social media accounts. Topics include cover photos and avatars, photos on Facebook, Twitter and Google+, Instagram and other sites, milestones sections and tabs sections.

This file provides an overview of the features Flickr offers for saving and organizing images.

This introductory presentation for CSOs highlights reasons for needing the media and an overview of news, journalists and who to reach out to. It also describes the structure and sections of press releases.

Tunisian CSO Munathara worked with local mobile developers to build this app promoting public dialogue. Users can record and upload a 99-second video on a key civic issue, which is then viewed and rated by other app users.      

Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apptivit.beeztouch.munathara&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5hcHB0aXZpdC5iZWV6dG91Y2gubXVuYXRoYXJhIl0

Apple: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/munathara/id572965744?mt=8

This app was funded by the IREX Social Media | Social Action program, through the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI).

This presentation describes aspects of building a social media presence, focusing on the online presence of founders. The emphasis is on the importance of founders and management being active on social media. Tips highlight the idea that people engage more with people than with organizations.

Arabi Israeli developer Mohammed Bitar worked with Al Manarah to develop this mobile app for the blind and visually impaired, allowing this audience to listen to Arabic language literature on their smart phones. It also features bookmark and review functions. Al Manaraah is based in Nazareth, Israel.

Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.arttech.almanarah&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5hcnR0ZWNoLmFsbWFuYXJhaCJd

Apple: https://itunes.apple.com/jo/app/mktbt-almnart/id597383899?mt=8

This app was funded by the IREX Social Media | Social Action program, through the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI).

This presentation provides detailed instructions for creating a CSO corporate page and Showcase pages on LinkedIn. It  describes various outreach techniques, such as how best to utilize the Showcase pages, and it highlights statistics about LinkedIn use in Lebanon.

This slide presentation highlights selecting appropriate methods and techniques based on trainee needs, the trainer's competence and personal style, and the context of the training. It includes taxonomy of methods, arrangement of subgroups, stimulus, role play methods, experiential methods, needs assessment and evaluation.

This resource details the Participants' Selection Criteria for training on women and youth political participation, including conditions that must be adhered to by participants.

This file reviews the most common method for increasing the number of civil society organization (CSO) Facebook fans.

This file offers tips for writing success stories about the programs and projects of civil society organizations (CSOs).

The Training Evaluation Form for women and youth's political participation training has six parts, starting with materials, training tools, trainers and trainees, and the team conducting the training session. The final sections address the challenges encountered by the team and solutions, and recommendations.

This mobile app for Jordan's Justice Centre for Legal Aid provides citizens with access to basic legal information, offers a function for users to ask questions, and enables them to locate their local legal aid centres.

Play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.jcla.mobilecompanion&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsIm9yZy5qY2xhLm1vYmlsZWNvbXBhbmlvbiJd

This app was funded by the IREX Social Media | Social Action program, through the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI).

This manual provides an overview of Flickr, a website used to host, share and save photos. It describes how the site is widely used by bloggers to host images that they embed in blogs within social media and blogs.

This “Ana Digital” manual provides an explanation on how to create a blog on Blogger, a popular blog hosting website. 

The Jordanian arm of student/ alum organization AIESEC worked with Applikable Technologies to create a mobile app to engage students/ alum with further education and career opportunities. This app also has chat and file-sharing tools built in to it.

Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.applikable.aiesecapp&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5hcHBsaWthYmxlLmFpZXNlY2FwcCJd

This app was funded by the IREX Social Media | Social Action program, through the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI).

This resource describes six new tools for collecting donations for non-profit organizations through the Internet.

The Advisors' Selection Criteria highlights procedural steps for selecting advisors, the advisor’s role and characteristics, and also the functions and main tasks of the Project Advisory Committee. This is part of a training for women and youth on political action.

This brief handout provides a weekly master checklist for tracking content topic and type of posts, person responsible, date and social media outlet.

This file provides information about a variety of means to monitor growth of blogs and websites.

This manual focuses on the importance of television as an outreach tool and describes how to effectively participate in televised interviews. Practical instructions and tips are provided for three scenarios: participating in a talk show, appearing within a news report to discuss a particular event, and appearing to present a specific opinion on the subject of debate within a news program.

This file provides a list of 10 major active social networking websites that offer free services and promote civil society organizations (CSOs) through engagement, promotion or communication.

This resource explains three of the most important elements to be taken into consideration when thinking about your social media strategy.

This handout on communication with the media and public highlights types of communication, nonprofit image, formulating a program and approaches.

This presentation focuses on using key performance indicators (KPIs) and return on investment (ROI) to set organizational expectations. It highlights why a framework is important, including intent, definitions of metrics and setting benchmarks. It then provides guidelines for introducing a framework and for defining KPIs and ROI.

The Royal Society of the Conservation of Nature's mobile app teaches Jordanians (specifically youth) environmental facts, how to look after the local ecosystem, and provides access to information on parks and reserves around the country.

Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jo.org.rscn&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImpvLm9yZy5yc2NuIl0

Apple: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id584813724

This app was funded by the IREX Social Media | Social Action program, through the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI).