Tag Archives: Beirut

Lebanon’s Online Community Emerges Offline at GeekFest Beirut!

Written by jessica. Posted on February 8, 2010. Filed under SMEX News. Tagged , , , , , , , . 4 Comments.
Geekfest Beirut identity designed by Naeema Zarif.
For those of us who struggle to stay connected in Lebanon—and that would be just about all of us, thanks to Internet speeds that can make waiting for an image or a video to load feel like waiting for Godot—Friday night’s Geekfest Beirut was a wonder to behold. Never before had so many members of [...]

Let’s Put Beirut on the Map

Written by jessica. Posted on August 17, 2009. Filed under Participatory Media Literacy, SMEX News. Tagged , , , , . No comments.
OpenStreetMap is an international project that aims to provide free geographic data collected by individuals from around the world. Or, as they describe themselves on their website, OpenStreetMap is a free editable map of the whole world. OpenStreetMap relies on crowdsourcing to gather the geographic data that is plotted on the map. Anyone who knows [...]

Spring Cleaning, and Getting Ready to Relaunch SMEX

Written by jessica. Posted on April 24, 2009. Filed under Uncategorized. Tagged , , , , , , , , , . No comments.
Startups by definition are disorganized and always trying to catch up with their vision. Social Media Exchange is no exception. Last year, we launched the Summer 2008 Social Media for Social Change project with lots of aspirations, many of which we achieved and some, which, let’s be honest, we haven’t gotten to yet. We developed a [...]

Blog Action Day: Unite with the International Blogosphere on October 15

Written by jessica. Posted on October 8, 2008. Filed under Uncategorized. Tagged , , , , , , . No comments.
On Wednesday October 15 at 6:30 p.m., we the Social Media Exchange are joining the global conversation about poverty from Rootspace. We’re testing the impact of simultaneously blogging during this day on a single topic—poverty– together with thousands of bloggers from around the world. Poverty is not only a pressing issue, it is a complex one. [...]

Aether9: The Art of Remote Online Storytelling

Written by jessica. Posted on September 26, 2008. Filed under Uncategorized. Tagged , , , . No comments.
The Beirut Street Festival has been celebrating art and culture by bringing performance to the street since 2002. Out-of-doors and free-of-charge, the festival started early this September and will continue till the end of November. What caught our attention this year is a project by the Æther9 group titled: “When Antennas Convert Love in Space–A [...]