Tag Archives: Lebanon

Lebanon Tweets, Too

Written by mike. Posted on July 8, 2011. Filed under Arabization, News, Stories. Tagged , , , . No comments.
In response to our last blog post about Forbes Middle East‘s list of the top 100 Arab Twitter presences, we thought we’d share the Twitter Grader ranking of Lebanon’s highest graded tweeters, brought to our attention by @williamchoukrei in a recent tweet. Lebanon was conspicuously absent from Forbes’ top 100 list, despite having one of the largest [...]

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 [...]

Lebanon Launches Creative Commons Chapter

Written by jessica. Posted on November 1, 2010. Filed under For Local NGOs, For Trainers, News. Tagged , , , , , , , . 1 Comment.
Slide of the CC logo that says some rights reserved
Since 2003, the international nonprofit Creative Commons (known as CC) has endeavored to “save the world from failed sharing.” CC, as it’s called, aims to address the lag of copyright law in keeping pace with changes in digital technology b facilitating sharing. The organization, founded by law professor and author Lawrence Lessig, has created six [...]