Archive for January, 2011

Strong MENA interest in mobile apps

Filed in Apps, E-commerce, Internet, Internet research, Marketing, Middle East marketing, Middle-East, Mobile, Online Marketing, Online-shopping, Research, Social media by Carrington Malin on January 31, 2011 • 0 Comments

The latest Effective Measure | Spot On PR survey shows that 85 percent of mobile Internet users in the Arab world download apps.

Update: Egypt revolution reading list

Filed in Middle-East by Carrington Malin on January 30, 2011 • 0 Comments

The Egyptian people’s uprising is undoubtedly one of the most shocking, significant and, some would say, hopeful major socio-political events (update: and now must be said highly dangerous!) that we’ve seen in our 16 years of business in the Arab world. So, as many are, we’re following developments quite closely and have been glued to […]

Egypt Facebook demographics

Filed in Facebook, Internet, Internet research, Middle-East, Research, Social media by Carrington Malin on January 26, 2011 • 0 Comments

Egypt leads the Arab world in numbers of Facebook subscribers, with 5 million members. Here’s are updated Facebook demographics.

Middle East bloggers on air!

Filed in Blogging, Content, Internet, Middle-East, Social media by Alexander McNabb on January 24, 2011 • 0 Comments

Tune in to Alexander McNabb on Dubai Eye 103.8FM on Tuesday January 25th at 10am to listen to the Dubai Today show and hear about Middle East blogging from seven bloggers in the region.

Should you outsource your conversation?

Filed in Content, CRM, Customers, Facebook, Internet, Middle East marketing, Online Marketing, Public Relations, SEO, Social media, Twitter by Alexander McNabb on January 19, 2011 • 0 Comments

There’s lots of stuff we do with clients building digital communications programmes, from SEO auditing through to setting up and populating social media platforms. But the one thing we recommend against is take the whole thing off your hands. There’s a problem with outsourcing your conversation, you see. It simply doesn’t work. We’ll happily work […]

Can we say Twitter revolution now? Can we?

Filed in Disintermediation, Facebook, Internet, Media, Middle-East, Newspapers, Social media, Twitter by Carrington Malin on January 16, 2011 • 1 Comment

There’s already been quite a lot written about the role of social media in the ousting of Tunisia’s President Ben Ali. Here’s our 2 cents worth, plus a list of useful links for anyone interested in learning about the role of social media in Tunisia’s regime change.