Johnsons Baby Middle East are running an interesting campaign entitled “The Grandparents Frame“. It’s based on the following insight: In the Middle East, a lot of people leave their country to live abroad but, grandparents usually stay home and thus, don’t really see their grandchildren growing. Of course today, with the technology advancements it’s less and less […]
Today marks the end of my third year of blogging! Through experience and thanks to your constant feedback and support I was able to grow much bigger which is what kept me motivated all year long. I’ve posted on average three posts per week lately and always try to be regular. For those of you who […]
Red Balloon is an English language learning center in Brazil for kids. In their latest campaign by Ogilvy Brazil, brazilian kids spotted many celebrities tweets with English misspellings and replied from the Red Balloon account presenting themselves, correcting the mistake(s) and attaching a picture of them.
Northwestern university in Qatar published the findings of a survey about media use in the Arab world. It was conducted with around 10,000 respondents from Lebanon, Qatar, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Tunisia, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. You can check all the information about this survey, its methodology and the text documents on http://menamediasurvey.northwestern.edu. You may […]
FireMe! is an online tool that aggregates all the tweets that could get someone to lose his job. The section entitled “They Want” presents four categories: The first one is for “Haters” and include tweets that express hate towards the job or the boss. Second is “Horrible Bosses” for those who verbally attack their bosses […]
Wezank is a new project created by two Lebanese people: Maya Zankoul and Toni Yammine. It is a great way to visually explain your ideas through simple and fun animation videos. Wezank: Website – Facebook – Twitter – YouTube How It Works? The process consist of six steps that can be found on Wezank.com. Ideation: […]
UPDATE: The title of this article was changed from the present tense to the past following a discussion with the General Manager of Virgin Radio Lebanon in the comment section of this post. The radio management took in consideration those three points and offered some additional insights. I invite you all to check this discussion […]
Ipsos MENA released lately interesting statistics about the internet usage and consumption habits in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The numbers were presented at the ArabNet Beirut Conference 2013 by the regional president Elie Aoun. I gathered the most important numbers concerning Lebanon in an Infographic that you will find below. You […]
In a session entitled Research And Case Studies in Social Media, ArabNet brought together representatives from four different regional social media agencies to present case studies resulting from their works with their clients. Here is what we have to keep in mind from those presentations: . Fadi Khater (Netizency) and Fadi Malas (Just Falafel) In […]
I really love the concept of taking relatively old stories and show how they would’ve happened if social media existed at that time. I posted few months ago, the digital story of nativity and today, since it is Nelson Mandela‘s birthday, let me share with you the digital story of his life. This great work […]
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