Monthly Archives: January 2011

San Francisco Treats

Written by jessica. Posted on January 18, 2011. Filed under News. Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , . 3 Comments.
The Google Street sign in Mountain View, California.
SMEX spent last week in San Francisco, California, just about the center of the universe for social media. Google, Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, LinkedIn, and a myriad of other social media giants and upstarts all call the city or its Silicon Valley surroundings home. We went as part of the lead-up to a new project, called [...]

Quick: What Do You Want from Social Media in 2011?

Written by jessica. Posted on January 12, 2011. Filed under Arabization, Communities, For Local NGOs, For Participants, For Trainers, News. Tagged , , , , . 2 Comments.
If you had five minutes with representatives from some of the top Internet companies in the world, what would you tell them about Arab social media? What should they know? What would you ask for? This Friday, in San Francisco, SMEXbeirut will present about social media in Lebanon and the region to representatives of Twitter, [...]