Tag Archives: Twitter

What a Difference a Year Makes

Written by jessica. Posted on April 30, 2010. Filed under SMEX News. Tagged , , , , , , . 4 Comments.
A blogger fills out the form for permission to cover the elections and enter the polling station.
For Lebanon’s parliamentary elections in June 2009, citizen media hadn’t quite achieved the critical mass it needed to mobilize. True, the Lebanese Association for Democratic Elections (LADE) mobilized more than 2,000 SMS-enabled monitors and Sharek961 implemented the first instance of the crowdsourced crisis-mapping application Ushahidi, but beyond these interventions and a handful of existing bloggers, [...]

Workshopping Innovations in Mobile Data Collection in Amman

Written by jessica. Posted on December 7, 2009. Filed under SMEX Training & Events. Tagged , , , , , . No comments.
A mobile phone displaying Ushahidi crisis mapping site.
We know that we haven’t posted in a long time. And we look forward to changing all that with a streamlined and updated online presence in the New Year. Which, as it happens, will also coincide with an updated offline presence in our new offices in the lovely Badaro neighborhood of Beirut. Please bear with [...]

Who’s Tweeting in the Middle East?

Written by jessica. Posted on September 21, 2009. Filed under Policies & Practice. Tagged , , , . No comments.
A chart of Twitter users in the Middle East from SpotOnPR, July 2009.
A new report, posted to the Creative Commons Arab World Google Group, from Spot On Public Relations offers some numbers about Twittership in the MENA region. Among the stats are that Twitter use in the MENA is growing at a rate of 17 percent a month and has increased ten times in the first 7 [...]

Guides to Twitter Activism and Cross-Posting Now Available in Arabic

Written by jessica. Posted on September 20, 2009. Filed under Participatory Media Literacy, Strategy & Technics. Tagged , , , , , , . No comments.
Today, SMEX is ecstatic to be releasing the Arabic translations of two excellent social media guides for activism. The first guide is Cross-Posting for Advocacy, developed by Sami ben Gharbia from Global Voices. The guide is a six-page overview of the utility of cross-posting and instructions on how to cross-post between some of the most common [...]

تعرّف على تويتر

Written by jessica. Posted on July 15, 2009. Filed under SMEX News. Tagged , , , , , , , , . No comments.
نحن، في تبادل الإنترنت الإجتماعي في بحث دائم عن أدوات وموارد في اللغة العربية. وجدنا أمس، على يوتيوب قناة الجزيرة، هذا البرنامج التعليمي حول التوترة من خلال قائمة ميدان البريدية. إذا كنت على علم بأي برامج أخرى مرتبطة بالإعلام الإجتماعي كتبت باللغة العربية، أخبرنا عنها في خانة التعليقات. نضيفها عندئذ ونعلن عنها، كما نعز بالفضل [...]