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	<title> &#187; Beirut</title>
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		<title>The Power of Illustration</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 07:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessica</dc:creator>
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Illustration = communication = representation, says Maya Zankoul, a graphic designer who (if you don&#8217;t already know) keeps a comics blog about Lebanese daily life at Maya&#8217;s Amalgam. It&#8217;s not just for kids or a childish act, she affirms for the skeptics in the room. It requires right-brain thinking, the kind of thinking that will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s Your Social Media Guru?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most self-respecting social media experts wouldn&#8217;t think of letting themselves be called a social media guru—just listen to Mark Comerford at the recent Young Leaders Visitors Program Social Media Café earlier this month at Zico House in Beirut:

Nevertheless, there are some who understand the technical and the tactical of new media better than the rest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George Haddad Teaches Essential Photography</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 07:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday at SMEX, photographer George Haddad hosted the first of a series of four Saturday afternoon workshops designed to teach essential photography skills. In addition to teaching good shooting practices, like &#8220;get close,&#8221; the workshop focused on the basics of understanding the relationship between aperture, shutter speed, and focal length. Participants were encouraged to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shankaboot Premieres on the Web</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, the new Arabic-language web drama Shankaboot, directed by Amin Dora and produced by Katia Saleh, premiered at Art Lounge.
The series belongs to a new genre and is one of the first of its kind in the Arab world (Flying Kebab is another but it&#8217;s not in Arabic), intends to portray a lesser-known, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lebanon&#8217;s Online Community Emerges Offline at GeekFest Beirut!</title>
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		<comments>http://www.smex.org/2010/02/geekfest-beirut/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s Geekfest Beirut was a wonder to behold. Never before had so many members of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Put Beirut on the Map</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessica</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Participatory Media Literacy]]></category>
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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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spring Cleaning, and Getting Ready to Relaunch SMEX</title>
		<link>http://www.smex.org/2009/04/spring-cleaning-and-getting-ready-to-relaunch-smex/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smex.org/2009/04/spring-cleaning-and-getting-ready-to-relaunch-smex/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessica</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[دراسة حالات ، نصائح ، لبنان ،  GV  08 قمة]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s be honest, we haven&#8217;t gotten to yet.
We developed a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blog Action Day: Unite with the International Blogosphere on October 15</title>
		<link>http://www.smex.org/2008/10/blog-action-day-unite-with-the-international-blogosphere-on-october-15/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smex.org/2008/10/blog-action-day-unite-with-the-international-blogosphere-on-october-15/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8211; together with thousands of bloggers from around the world.
Poverty is not only a pressing issue, it is a complex one. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aether9: The Art of Remote Online Storytelling</title>
		<link>http://www.smex.org/2008/09/aether9-the-art-of-remote-online-storytelling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smex.org/2008/09/aether9-the-art-of-remote-online-storytelling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessica</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beirut]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hamra Street]]></category>

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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&#8211;A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SOCIAL HOUR at RootSpace!</title>
		<link>http://www.smex.org/2008/07/social-hour-at-rootspace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessica</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[alternative media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beirut]]></category>
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We&#8217;re Hosting Social Hour at RootSpace (Saifi- Beirut) on Wednesday July 9.
THE SERIES: Social Media for Social Change, hosted by RootSpace and the Social Media Exchange.
EPISODE 1: &#8220;Blogging, citizen journalism, social networks, etc&#8230;What alternative media exists in Lebanon, and what benefit can it provide?&#8221;
Key Questions: Does media choice exist in Lebanon? Does it matter? Does [...]]]></description>
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