Monthly Archives: September 2009

SMEX Goes to PICNIC ‘09

Written by jessica. Posted on September 23, 2009. Filed under SMEX News. Tagged , , , , , , . No comments.
PICNIC09 attendees could catch up on Tweets under the Twitter tree.
This month, SMEX was invited to speak at PICNIC ‘09, a three-day event in Amsterdam where media people, arts and architecture people, entertainment people, journalists, science folks, and a whole lot of others get together to push the edges of new ideas. Below is Mohamad’s presentation about The Arab Social Web, a panel convened by [...]

Who’s Tweeting in the Middle East?

Written by jessica. Posted on September 21, 2009. Filed under Policies & Practice. Tagged , , , . No comments.
A chart of Twitter users in the Middle East from SpotOnPR, July 2009.
A new report, posted to the Creative Commons Arab World Google Group, from Spot On Public Relations offers some numbers about Twittership in the MENA region. Among the stats are that Twitter use in the MENA is growing at a rate of 17 percent a month and has increased ten times in the first 7 [...]

Guides to Twitter Activism and Cross-Posting Now Available in Arabic

Written by jessica. Posted on September 20, 2009. Filed under Participatory Media Literacy, Strategy & Technics. Tagged , , , , , , . No comments.
Today, SMEX is ecstatic to be releasing the Arabic translations of two excellent social media guides for activism. The first guide is Cross-Posting for Advocacy, developed by Sami ben Gharbia from Global Voices. The guide is a six-page overview of the utility of cross-posting and instructions on how to cross-post between some of the most common [...]