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We'll show several different NGO or advocacy-related websites from Lebanon and evaluate them from a visitor/user perspective. We'll ask them to imagine the goals, messages, audiences for the websites and also look at their Facebook and Twitter and other related social media pages. Throughout we'll be asking about likes and dislikes so that we can activate the participants to think critically about strategic presences and the process of developing them and/or advising others on developing them.

The sites are chosen to provide a good mix of genres and geographic distribution throughout the region.

Criteria: Not directly political, issue-based; with a bias towards Lebanon because we know it well
 * Examples and Case Studies**
 * Overall Web Presence: Nasawiya@nasawiyaOn FacebookOn FlickrYouTubeFourSquare
 * Innovative Twitter usage: Man in the Cube, #stopthislaw, Twestival Beirut
 * Facebook Success: Laique Pride Profile and Laique Pride Page and @LebLaique and @http://lebanese-laique-pride.over-blog.com/
 * Facebook Success You've Never Heard Of: The Village of Rihan in Southern Lebanon Takes on a Developer
 * Ordinary but Instantly Successful Blog: Ethiopian Suicides
 * Rural NGO: LOST Lebanon
 * Youth NGO: Aie Serve

@Other sites that aren't necessarily NGOs or campaigns.