Exclusive 20% Discount on Total Marketing Summit 2011 For All Interactive ME readers

Mark your calendar for The Total Marketing Summit 2011, this conference will be held in The Address Dubai Mall in Dubai, UAE between the 20 – 23 November. The summit which addresses marketing strategies that meet the growing needs of the increasingly integrated marketing responsibilities that marketers face today. The list of speakers at the summit is impressive with speakers... Read More

InteractiveME OnSite with Kodak’s Social Media Manager

During the Marcus Evans Middle East Social Media Marketing Conference, we heard a fabulous presentation from one of the Middle East’s stronger social media campaigns. Kodak’s current social media strategy entails engaging in valuable conversations with clients and users. Not only do they listen to what social media platforms say to them, but Kodak actually engages and... Read More

Don’t Miss The Market Insights Summit 2011 on June 20 – 21

  Tomorrow the The Market Insights Summit will be held at the Mövenpick Hotel Jumeirah Beach in Dubai, registration opens at 8:30 A.M. The two day summit is the premier event to meet, network with and learn from market research industry peers from the Middle East across industries including FMCG, telecommunications, finance/ banking, healthcare! There is a list of very impressive... Read More

Reminder for the Government Social Media Conference Tomorrow

With all the talk about the second release of the Arab Social Media report prepared by the Dubai School of Government to be released soon, it is likely that we will get more information and numbers tomorrow. If you haven’t registered yet you can do so on the Government Social Media Conference registration page, but hurry because the event will be carried out tomorrow June... Read More

The Arab Social Media Report: A Report from the Dubai School of Government.

  This week, I was at the Marcus Evans Middle East Social Media and Marketing Event as part of team InteractiveMe.com.   The event was enjoyable, the speakers were well-informed and the attendees were wonderful. I thoroughly enjoyed myself. Stay tuned to the site, as we’ll be posting highlights, video and commentary on the use of Social Media as a tool for Brand Awareness... Read More

1 on 1 with Mishaal AlGergawi UAE’s Social Media Expert (Part 2 of 2):

This article is a continuation of the discussion held here in part 1 With Mishaal AlGergawi, and is sponsored by the Government Social Media Conference (@govsmc) taking place in Dubai on June 7th – 8th. After discussing how Mishaal felt about his personal experiences with Twitter we then moved on to discuss the state of Social Media in the region and especially in the government... Read More

15% discount on Econsultancy training courses in #Dubai

It’s been busy here in Dubai, just yesterday we were covering a social media conference and after talking to almost everybody at the conference I must admit only a small number of people found it beneficial but I can say there was a bigger number still not convinced and were still looking for more help with social media (we will cover that in a later article) but if you plan... Read More

Dont forget the Middle East Social Media Marketing Conference on May 29

It’s almost here the Middle East Social Media Marketing Conference organized by marcusevans will be held next Sunday 29 – 30 May at the Hyatt Regency Dubai Hotel, Dubai, UAE. We have already talked to two of the experts that will be present at the conference, but there will be many more who will share their knowledge and provide a local insight. Take a look at the list... Read More

1 on 1 with Mishaal AlGergawi UAE’s Social Media Expert (Part 1 of 2):

  This article is sponsored by the Government Social Media Conference (@govsmc) taking place in Dubai on June 7th – 8th. I had the pleasure of speaking with Mishaal AlGergawi for those who don’t Know Mishaal he’s twitter and social media advocate that goes by the handle @Algergawi if you’re in the UAE or follow news from the UAE on Twitter you most probably read one... Read More

Confessions of a social media expert: Arto Joensuu

This article is sponsored by the marcusevans Middle East Social Media Marketing conference that will take place on the 29th & 30th of May in Dubai. We will be writing more articles in this format leading up to the conference where we will ask the expert speakers of the conference different questions related to social media and in the MENA region. Our second expert is Arto Joensuu. Arto... Read More

Confessions of a social expert with Racha Mourtada

This article is sponsored by the marcusevans Middle East Social Media Marketing conference that will take place on the 29th & 30th of May in Dubai. We will be writing more articles in this format leading up to the conference where we will ask the expert speakers of the conference different questions related to social media and in the MENA region. Our first expert is Racha Mourtada. Racha... Read More

5 free entries to attend the Government Social Media Conference

Yesterday the organizers of the Government Social Media Conference announced that they will providing 5 free entries to the conference by applying on the website here, all the request in return is for you to tell them why they should choose you. For those who aren’t aware about the prices for registering to the conference you can find that information here. There are two... Read More

Mark your calendar for the Government Social Media Conference

  On June 7-8 for the first time in the MENA a Government Social Media Conference will take place in Dubai, UAE at the Al Murooj Rotana Hotel. The conference is organized by The Business Council and after speaking with the conference manager Mr. Hijazi Natsheh he confirmed to us that this event will be the first of many with the possibility of it being occurring in different... Read More

Democamp Amman Tomorrow

Democamp Amman will be held at 7pm (8pm UAE time) tomorrow, and according to a press release there will be around 400 people attending the event from techies, investors and startup enthusiast. The six finalists that will be demoing were chosen from a total of over 35+ submissions so hopefully people who will attend will get a chance to see some innovative demos. For the people who... Read More

Inkezny wins first place at Startup Weekend Cairo

Startup Weekend Cairo (SWC) a 54-hour event that brings leaders and entrepreneurs together was held last week in Cairo at the American University of Cairo (AUC) in partnership with National Net Ventures (N2V) and The Business School at AUC. For all the people who were following the tweets on #SWcairo the event seemed to be a huge success with loads of entrepreneurs, mentors, speakers... Read More

Middle East Social Media Marketing Conference

A very interesting event that will hopefully provide better insights for all the marketers in the region on social media will be taking place later this month. This is something we’ve been talking about a lot lately since all the reports and surveys from the MENA region always produce the same answer “The need to understand social media better” and so on. you can... Read More

Demo Camp Dubai Review

Yesterday we attended DemoCampDubai for those of you who followed the tweets the event had its ups and downs, but that’s not what I’m going to write about in this article I will focus on giving a summary on all the demo’s and scoring them on the basis of their presentation, demo, idea originality and usefulness from 1 – 5 (1 being the lowest and 5 being... Read More

Are you a fan of new ideas? Then don’t miss Democamp Dubai

We previously mentioned here Democamp Dubai an event happening tomorrow between 5 p.m – 8p.m at The American University in Dubai, School of Engineering Bld. 3rd floor. According to the organizers there is a number of great submissions which should make the event very interesting, so for all the people in Dubai interested in finding out what the next venture coming out of... Read More

App dev days summary (Day 2) iPhone development basics

Day two of the event at twofour54 in Abu Dhabi, which held 3 different sessions running in parallel. The first session covered Blackberry development the other was covering development for Symbian and the last (the one we attended) was the iPhone iOS basics. The key speaker was Amir Jahanlou from SAE Institute Dubai, he specializes in developing apps and 3D games. Amir started... Read More

App Dev Days summary (Day 1)

Today twofour54 held a very useful and exciting mobile user experience (UX) training session with the presence of David Ashford of Apps Arabia, Magnus Nystedt Group Editor at the Corporate Publishing International (CPI), the publishing house that brings pcworld and macworld Middle East. And the main speaker was Oliver Weidlich of Mobile Experience: Director of Design & Innovation. After... Read More