Tag Archives: Social Hour

Summing Up Blog Action Day

Written by jessica. Posted on October 16, 2008. Filed under Uncategorized. Tagged , , , , , . No comments.
Yesterday was all about Blog Action Day and publishing simultaneously with the international blogosphere about a topic of global concern, poverty. We also experimented with live blogging from Rootspace. Last evening marked our very first attempt at blogging live– which explains why at one point, we asked you to get set and ‘Bog’—typos, mind you. [...]

Movie Night, Blogging, Social Change, and Popcorn!

Written by jessica. Posted on August 4, 2008. Filed under Uncategorized. Tagged , , , , , . No comments.
Join us for another fun Social Hour, hosted by RootSpace and the Social Media Exchange. This week: 1) Screening of a documentary on blogging in Lebanon (in Arabic), and discussion with the person who made it, journalist Ibrahim Arab (also speaking in Arabic). 2) A video lecture (only 20 mins, in English) by web futurist [...]

Another point of view about blogging in Lebanon

Written by jessica. Posted on July 11, 2008. Filed under Uncategorized. Tagged , , , . No comments.
A blog post by Nash Suleiman of Visions Projection about Wednesday’s SMEx social hour on blogging and alternative media in Lebanon ended like this: Arab meetings in general consist of meeting up and talking, then forming a committee to analyze that discussion which in return will pass it to another group to approve the talks [...]