Category Archives: Strategy & Technics

Campaign to Promote Blogging for Political Change

Written by jessica. Posted on April 1, 2010. Filed under Lebanese Elections, Participatory Media Literacy, Strategy & Technics, Youth & Participatory Media. Tagged , , , , . No comments.
A banner ad on Trella.org encouraging people to open blogs.
The following is a station identification break from our CC-licensed posts: In his latest YouTube video, Imad Bazzi is promoting his blogging platform Trella.org by highlighting the potential of social media to effect political change in Lebanon. Here’s the video, which starts with a fade in to a grid of faces familiar in Lebanese politics and background [...]

Workshop: Career Development with Social Media

Written by jessica. Posted on February 1, 2010. Filed under Career, SMEX Training & Events, Strategy & Technics. No comments.
Are you a young Lebanese person looking for a job? Or maybe you already have a job but need freelance work to make ends meet? Are you tired of visiting offices and depositing your resume, knowing that you probably will never hear back from them? Social media might be able to help you. The strategic use [...]

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 [...]

Process Notes

Written by jessica. Posted on May 5, 2009. Filed under E-Learning, Reflections, SMEX News, Strategy & Technics. Tagged , , , , , . No comments.
One of the things that I wished we had done during our project last year was to take better notes about the process of developing and implementing our plans. Not only would this provide an opportunity for us to reflect on what was working and what wasn’t, but it would provide a record of what [...]