Ali Kanaan, Number 12 is a number to like and follow
I just love it when I meet people that know what they want out of life, better yet social media. We are living in the craziness of who has the more likes, or who has the more followers, or even who is tweeting more!! But when it comes to gentleness, determination, and height I think the professional basketball player, Ali Kanaan, number 12, fits best. He’s 205cm and has been playing for the Riyadh team for two years now with positions of power... Read More
Our first infograph: Social Media for brands in the #MENA
Last month we wrote about a report that was prepared by OMG on use of social media in the UAE and KSA. So we decided to make into an infograph. We thought everybody’s doing one, why not us! This is well overdue, I remember Amer Massimi urging us to do infographs almost a year ago, it sure took us sometime but we’ve finally made it happen along with the help of Bayanat. Checkout their website they’ve done some pretty cool infographs... Read More
Mothers VS Social Media in the #MENA
If we go back in time lets say two or three generations ago, we see how kids used to play contrary to kids in our generation today. Time changes everything, human beings evolve, and what used to be the latest trend will not be in style. This happens to everything we deal with in life. Whether fashion, whether business or even kids games. Today’s children are born with a mind set to comprehend technological devices more than our minds back then.... Read More
When social media leaves you with no time!!
Everybody wants to be active on social media. And that’s not a curse on the contrary it’s putting a lot of people to work. As I discussed in one of my previous articles social media needs people to work on it. But time is money. Although there are automation tools to help manage your social media presence; there still has to be some human input and its time consuming, taken into consideration the up-to-date news, post ups, and page... Read More
Roadsters AND Social Media
Social media today has a huge impact on everybody’s life, whether on a personal or professional level. Taking into consideration some of the companies that are active on social media today one discovers important details. Roadster is a diner that is active on Facebook, twitter, and foursquare. It has about 5,156 followers on twitter and about 28,439 likes on Facebook that support the diner’s events, food, and its everyday activity. When Roadster... Read More
Campaigning Against Facebook Insights Malfunction
If you are running a Facebook Page on daily basis, you definitely know that Facebook Insights data is always outdated. Today, the launch of new campaign “Why Is Facebook Insights Not Working” is your unprecedented placate. The movement started by founders of renown analytics application, PageLevel, whose all their work is about data, information, and insights. The movement launched a dedicated website that aims to deliver the voice of... Read More
White paper: Social Media in #KSA and the #UAE
A white paper conducted by Omnicom Media Group (OMG) showcases social media habits of users in Saudi Arabia and the UAE. The whitepaper has some very interesting insights as to the differences in how users from the different countries use and view social networks. The results were collected after conducting face to face interviews with 600 online users per country all from different nationalities and aged between 15 – 60. To view more, download... Read More
Happy farm proving to be good for peak games
Happy farm an Arabic social game (similar to farmville) on Facebook published by Peak Games has been on the top gaining applications list for a while and its ranked number 14 as the top gaining application adding another 200,000 Daily Active Users (DAU) since last week according to Appdata. Here’s a breakdown of their numbers in the last 3o days: Their Daily Active Users (DAU) are currently at: 2,300,000 users Their Monthly Active Users (MAU)... Read More
You don’t have consumer protection laws? It’s OK, Social Media Will do!
social-media power In a country that doesn’t have consumer protection laws, Saudi’s are not complaining, they have found their way with the help of new media. We have heard many stories of violating the Saudi customer rights. Today the story involves a big name. AL Shaya is a Giant retailer, actually the biggest in the GCC. Owning the franchise of more than 55 brands across the Middle East, this holding group is dominating a huge... Read More
Carrefour Saudi and the Social Conspiracy Theory!
Another failure, another brand, this time on a new level, which is good because it proves that having mere presence on social networks is not enough! It indicates again that some brands still have shallow understanding of social media. Carrefour Saudi is known to be one of the preferred hypermarkets there, it has a good market share, enjoys a reputation for high quality & low prices. I guess this is not true anymore, at least for... Read More
G+ the only invite only Social Network Site
Google Plus (G+) is just a few weeks old Social Network Site (SNS) from Google and already exceeded 20 million users, despite the fact the new Social Media channel is still in Beta (invite only). It took Facebook good few years to reach 20 million users, so it is fair to say the new SNS is more dynamic. G+ however doesn’t currently compete head to head with Facebook but instead G+ tends to position as another SNS; therefore not an immediate panic... Read More
Reem’s Digital Experiment: Creating an awesome Youtube Channel
Note: This is the first entry in a series that I have decided to call “Reem’s Digital Experiment”. I am going to attempt to create a “successful Youtube Channel by a blogger in the Middle East”. Many of my clients have asked how to do this effectively and while I often reference “success stories”, they aren’t my own. So I’m going to consolidate all my “YOUTUBE SUCCESS” research and... Read More
Social Media is about back to basic
We’ve always had one form of technology in our life, from fishing in 3,000 years ago to satellite technology today. This is all about our power of creativity and willingness to develop the past inventions to make life easier. We’ve always looked for ways to change things, especially making our everyday communications smoother and more effective. Mobile phones, text messages and emails all played a great role in that but, in the past couple... Read More
Latest Facebook Statistics in the #MENA (Q1 2011)
We have been talking a lot lately about the second release of the Arab Social Media Report developed by the Dubai School of Government and even though they had some information and numbers released on the site now the entire report is available for download. Below we are going to highlight some of the main points and graphs revealed in the report from Facebook and we will follow up with another post focusing only on Twitter in order to keep it... 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 and marketing. As a Digital Consultant, one of my jobs is to provide... 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 sector. I asked him whether if he thought social media was on the... Read More
Meet the Geek: Osama Romoh
We’ve had the pleasure of meeting Osama Romoh (@osamaromoh), who is a prominent Jordanian Blogger at osamaa.com with over 1,800+ Followers on twitter and with more than 13,900K likes on his facebook page. Osama now works in Dubai with Dubizzle where he is the Digital Marketing manager, we thought we’d share his wisdom with the world when it comes to Digital marketing so we sent him a couple of questions and he gracefully replied. Below... 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 of his tweets or even follow him. Mishaal didn’t always like Twitter... Read More
Be surprised? More like Be Confused! #Fail
Last week at the Mall of the Emirates in Dubai, there was a mysterious looking stand in the main atrium with a giant block of mud and two people in lab coats kept padding it down and scrapping away at it. I was kind of curious as to what it was so I went and asked them what this big block of mud was doing in the middle of the Mall. They were very secretive saying they are working on molding a vehicle but they wouldn’t say who the manufacturer... Read More
Middle Eastern countries growth on Facebook last month
A new article released on Inside Facebook today gives an interesting look about the traffic on Facebook from the Middle Eastern countries. And although there were upto 7 countries which have gained 100,000 users in the past month there is a bit of surprising and unexpected loss of users in a couple of the major countries of the region. Below is the chart prepared by Inside Facebook, as you can see Egypt is leading the pack with 500K users as previously... Read More
