Tag Archives: jordan

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 [...]

Jordan, Egypt, and Lebanon, Oh My! Digital and Social Media Training in the Arab World

Written by jessica. Posted on May 18, 2009. Filed under Uncategorized. Tagged , , , , , , , . 2 Comments.
We can’t keep up. It seems like every time we open our inbox, another digital media training is taking place in the Arab world, in Jordan or Egypt (update May 19: we learned about another training in Egypt from ifikra)—or, of course, at the end of this month in Lebanon, as we initiate our own [...]

Opportunities: Kiva, Online Media Creativity Workshop, OTI

Written by jessica. Posted on May 6, 2009. Filed under Uncategorized. Tagged , , , , , . No comments.
Often SMEX comes across excellent opportunities for employment, fellowships, funding, and training. Some are local, others regional, and still others global. All of them have relate to using online media to build stronger communities. We hope to become an invaluable resource for Lebanon’s online community, so we want to you know that these positions, posts, [...]